hawkwing_lb | Plans

Tomorrow is the first day of the new me.

I've killed my wind, not running while at Silchester. I need to get it back. I need to get back my fingerstrength and my upper body strength, too: that's declined as well, but not half as badly as my wind.

I need to complete the holdover Arch Soc business before the start of the new session: to whit, typing up the library catalogue.

I need to brush up my Greek, Latin, and French - which is about two hours' worth of work five times a week.

I need to start my final year thesis, which I think is probably going to be either "Isis in Greece: the Hellenistic to the Roman periods" or "Isis in Greco-Roman Egypt: change and continuity" depending on what the library has on offer; it might be "Isis in Rome: cult, class, and orientalism" but that is a fallback of the last resort. That's also at least two hours a day, five days a week: probably closer to three, since I want to get a good start before September 21 and Freshers' Week.

I want to write again. Call it an hour of work five days a week.

I also want to do karate again. We'll see how that works out.

So tomorrow, I need to be in town by twelve at the latest: in the library until five or I get tired, and in the gym thereafter. Possibly it may be best if I go to the gym first, for the first couple of days. We'll see.

So the plan is, starting from next week, to spend six hours (not including lunch) in the library every day, and two-three hours either in the gym, or climbing, or both. Which gives me six or seven weeks on a fulltime schedule, or thereabouts, before class begins and everything changes again.

Goals: start thesis, run a continuous 1.5 miles, lead a 5 route with no more than one pause, consistent 6A climbing, write 15000 words, type up library catalogue.

That'll do for going on with, I reckon.