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weeknotes #2

Another weeknotes - I need a better titling scheme. I'm going to mess with the format a little too, adding and removing sections based on what's happened this week.

Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗

Cycled home from the shop with a 9 pack of loo roll held in my teeth. Really need to get a rack for my bike. I haven't been climbing but I've at least been to Pilates. Arranged two catch-ups with friends to attempt to feel better about things in my personal life - partially successful.

Have had a spate of activity re blogging; I wrote about buying a watch (a weirdly popular post - I guess going offline is a trendy topic), enjoying the city at dusk and poetry, and some photos I got developed.

I've also started a postroll, which I need to link somewhere on my blog.

Films (and TV) 🍿🎥✮⋆˙

I watched It Was Just An Accident and Hamnet in the cinema. Total cinema ticket expense this week: £14.77

I've been thinking about the ending of It Was Just An Accident a lot. It's one of those endings that makes you see the rest of the film in a different light, especially when you think that all the news seems to indicate state violence in Iran is only getting worse.

Before watching Hamnet I'd read the book. I enjoying reading Maggie O'Farrell, she writes beautifully, if sometimes she can be a little over sentimental for me. When watching the film, I was blown away by how good a job the actors did of capturing the characters from the book - not just Jessie Buckley, but Paul Mescal and Emily Watson also. I was also completely enchanted by the emotional beats of the film, which really worked for me in the moment. Reading criticism of the film later almost... disappointed me? Because I agreed with a lot of reasons people disliked this film intellectually (over reliance on emotional tricks, too on the nose with it's take on grief, problems with the depiction of historical characters) even though those things didn't affect my enjoyment of the film, reading the reviews later has tempered my enjoyment retroactively. Am I too influenced by the opinions of others?

I also watched the film of the week on Le Petit Cinema Club, which I wrote about here.

I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️‍🩹

Work is much better now I'm back in the office and talking to people. General mood remains down though.

I'm looking forward to

I have booked myself a swim and massage at a local fancy swimming pool in 2 weeks time.

I've been reading 🍵📖

I'm still reading Rebecca and Frankenstein.

Continuing to keep up with my Poem a Day book. The poem of the week for me is The Second Coming. I'd heard the last line in isolation, but never the full poem. The note in the book mentioned "The poem was written in 1919, no doubt with the Russian revolution and the troubles in Ireland in mind." Tumultuous times are timeless.

💰 Frivolous purchases

I reviewed my monozo spending at the end of last year and decided I needed to reduce my spending. With that said, here is every frivolous purchase I've made this week.

The frivolous spending total for this week is £52.84

See you next week ~ 👋

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