I had a really great day. I’ve mostly just spent it by myself, doing whatever.

I got up this morning and spent a long time doing morning pages. I think it took me 53 minutes because I wrote out both pages backwards with my right hand. I have gotten in the habit of writing one page right handed and backwards and then switching to my left hand so that second page goes faster. I like writing backwards. I’ve noticed that my brain has started reading things from left to right and right to left. Instead of just seeing things and automatically processing them from the left to right the way we normally read, my mind looks at them both ways. This is especially noticeable with numbers since it doesn’t matter what way they go. Words can’t normally be read backwards and still be words.

It was gorgeous out today in Ningbo. Like upper 70s. I left my apartment with the intention of just walking around outside for a minute and paying a bill at the bank, and I ended up walking down to a river a little ways away and running for a while there. I greatly enjoyed the run. I haven’t run outside (or at all, actually) in a long time. It was really nice. And my knees didn’t hurt at all while running. I probably only ran for 30 minutes total and stopped to walk a few times while running. It was so nice to be out in the sun on a clear day and running. Tomorrow is also supposed to be quite warm and sunny so I’m hoping to make it out for another run along the river. What a gift that was.

I’d hoped make some significant headway on some of the bootcamps in the Den, but I only ended up watching one episode. My mind has been processing a lot of information about writing and going about finding clients so I really think I’ll get there, but I had higher hopes for my productivity today. I’m going to spend some time working on it again tomorrow. I might just have to read the bootcamp transcripts instead of listening to the hour long conversation. Reading it is much faster than listening. It would be nice to get through the whole bootcamp I started today before the end of the weekend. I’m not feeling stressed about time or getting this done, but I need to continue to make progress and I don’t seem to find much time during the week to get it done. I’m hoping to spend more time during this coming workweek looking at everything, especially considering the week after my parents will be here so probably nothing will get done that week.

Ok, my 10 minutes is basically up. Later KP!