AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Did you notice that this morning I’m typing with a British accent?

Fr Sam and the choir and congregation at Evensong at St Paul’s Wokingham were welcoming and gracious to their wayfaring preacher last night.

Woke after a restless night, ran my miles in a desultory time, home for coffee and fruit.

I had a lie-in this morning, inadvertently; I managed seven and a half hours sleep, and was groggy and slow waking up.

I didn’t run this morning; it was raining when I woke up, so I made coffee, and by the time I finished my coffee the rain had stopped, but there wasn’t time for a run plus cooldown plus shower.

My morning run felt very good, but the time came in at a usual-good plateau.

I walked (rather than ran) this morning out of respect for my aging bones and the work of relocation, construction, and provisioning I did yesterday.

I ran before this morning’s rain, with a slow-plateau time.

Yesterday I ran (a weary time), had my coffee and fruit, cleaned up, dressed and went to church.

Today is Base Camp Headington day.

Got up this chilly, clear morning after an adequate night of sleep, walked-ran my morning miles, coffee and fruit, shower, Morning Prayer, then I’ll come home to prepare for several occasions next week — the lead-off confirmation class (I’m covering ‘the…

Yesterday I had another good run, not quite as good as the day before; then coffee and fruit, shower, Morning Prayer, a quick stop for groceries, then home to Margaret.

I ran my best miles since early August this morning, then coffee and fruit, shower, Morning Prayer.

My morning run returned to the slow plateau, coiffee and fruit, took a few minutes to edit the short version of my sermon (for the eight o’clockers, who’d be just as happy with no homily at all), showered, hastened to St Nic’s, and am now enjoying some br…

I took a slow run today, a full minute slower than. yesterday; but my legs were rusty and I just felt glacial.

I ran to a decent time this morning (would have been better except for cross-traffic on Ock Street and a semi-collision with a pedestrian who was reading his phone and who then thought it incumbent on him to berate me as ‘running through the city centre l…

I got an adequate sleep, ran to an adequate time, and will be going to St Michael’s for the midweek midday service in a while.

I didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night, and I felt stiff-jointed and a little achey when I woke up, so I pretended that the rain that was just tapering off was in fact continuing full strength, and I stayed home from my usual morning run.

Slow start to the morning, taking a jog-walk in the dense humidity for my miles.

(Obituary at Dignity Memorial) (Obituary at Regent College) I first met Jonathan Wilson when Margaret and Nate and Si and I moved from New Haven to Durham (NC), where I’d begin my doctoral studies at Duke.

Slept well, ran to a slow, slow plateau time, had coffee and fruit, showered, Morning Prayer, public office hours at R&R where I caught up on (well, not really, but ‘answered some’) emails, picked up some grocery basics, and now am home for the afternoon…

I had a good run this morning, best in about six weeks.

Margaret and I metaphorically flipped a coin to determine which of us would go to the new gaff (a/k/a Nunc Dimittis), and the lot fell on me.

I didn’t run yesterday morning.

Last week, I got a message from O2 advising me that my monthly allotment of data was running low.

Yesterday afternoon, after the Staff Meeting (a/k/a ‘Team Meeting’, a/k/a ‘Chapter Meeting’), I felt an almost paralysing wave of exhaustion.

We spent a holiday in Antwerp.

I’m not satisfied with the composition of today’s sermon.

Many years ago, I entitled a post ‘Ngognog Ngogn’ so as to be able to remember the canonical R Crumb sound-effect for a mind reeling (viz.)

Short night of sleep, not surprisingly, and a sluggish run in misty almost-rain.

I got my longest night’s sleep in ages — oh, sweet rest!

We had an outage Tuesday and Wednesday, possibly related to the rainfall (not an extraordinary amount, but maybe the superdry earth… oh, I don’t know).

I didn’t run this morning, mostly because of the rain (but in part because we stayed up late last night to watch the last episode of Trigger Point).

I ran, slowly, this morning, and made triumphant coffee and ate the fruit of persistent progress.

And such an afternoon before it!

To be honest, it was another slow jog; I didn’t run at all yesterday as it was rainy, so today’s run was beset both by the punctuated inactivity due to weather (welcome rain) since our holiday and by the annoyingly persistent cough-and-cold that began ten…

The weather has been threatening rain since I woke up an hour or so ago, so no run today (if had known that it wouldn’t rain…).

Tuesday morning I felt as though the fog was lifting, the clouds parting, and the head cold was dissipating to a moderately comfortable condition.

I started out this morning with the goal of running my whole course, but after a short while I began coughing and snuffling, so we must mark today in the record-books as ‘ran and walked’.

We were repeatedly cautioned that there would be no public Morning Prayer today, for the Bank Holiday, so when I woke up this morning I said the Office while making my morning walk (I’m warming up to running, but my lungs and sinuses are still congested f…

I got a solid seven hours’ sleep last night, hurrah!