reality check - the slightly too hot edition. in Summertime, and the living is easy... 2015

WHERE: in the bath, I haven’t put enough cold water in so I’m sweating a little - it kinda defeats the point of a bath!

WEARING: bright orange nail varnish, a bracelet that Tally made for me, a blue beaded bracelet, my Green Man entrance wrist band and an NPL wrist band (National physical laboratory) which I also got at Green Man.

FITNESS UPDATE: I can run 6 miles and have changed the settings on my app to work in km so that I can aim for a 10k race I’m doing in November. 10km is about quarter of a mile further than 6 miles. Yesterday I did hill sprint training which is (a) loads of fun and (b) helps my body to run faster over longer runs. My weight stays within my happy parameters, purely because there’s no sugar in my diet, and I feel overall pretty healthy. Although yesterday’s hill sprints have taken their toll on my glutes!

IN THE NEWS: today is the 11th September (11/9 in English) all I’m sure there will be lots of remembrance stuff in the news.

READING: I’ve just finished X by Sue Grafton. I’m feeling more than my usual kind of post book bereft, this was the 24th book out of 26, it’s been her life’s work and she’s in her 70’s. I’ve been book-character-friends with Kinsey Millhone since I was 26 and she was in her early 30’s, the way the book’s time scales work mean that she’s still in 1989 and so is in her late 30’s. At 37 we were the same age but I’ve overtaken her now. She only has two books to go; what will happen to her in the last one? Where will she go? I don’t want her to die, nor to fall in love to live happily ever after (that’s not her style). But I don’t want her to carry on being a PI without filling me in on the details. I really hope that Sue has an ending in mind that will satisfy us long term readers.

I’ve downloaded Peter and Wendy (free) to my kindle as I’ve never read the original but love the 2003 film version.

ACTIVITIES TODAY: get breakfast ready, make packed lunches, go to school. Talk to a teacher about something important, make sure the girls are in their classroom. Go to my first room - 8.30 until 9, teaching phonics. Then 9-11.30 one on one with SEN girl. 12-1 as a dinner lady and 1-3 doing the maths intervention. Sign out, go outside and meet the girls as they come out (they finish 10 minutes later than me). This is a big thing for Talaia, transition is very hard for her so I have been picking her up from inside her classroom but now she has asked to come out like her classmates. She’s done it all except one time when she hovered by the door! We’ll come home - possibly via the climbing tree, then have snacks and do reading. The rest is unknown.

THINKING ABOUT: my maths intervention - I’m still incredibly nervous…

PLANNING: number lines, 100 squares, counting beads etc..!