This is an important day, World Literacy Day, and you’re reading this, so you’re doing part of your part. It’s a day, started in the 1960s, that aims to remind the world of the importance of literacy for individuals and societies, as well as the necessity for increased efforts toward a more literate society.
It could be the class prep I’m doing — literacy is going to come up next week — but a more literacy society should feel like an important task.
After a full day Thursday, I took in the weekend by taking it easy. Which is to say I worked in the home office on things I said I would do next week and set up some of the work I’ll need to do this weekend. But that’s for tomorrow, and Sunday, and Monday. Today, I could do a tiny bit less, and I was grateful for it.
After next week, he told himself, naively, the semester will settle into its own rhythm and you won’t have to spend every day stressing about every thing.
I see no reason why something so elemental should change at this late stage of the game.
We had a lovely bike ride today. I have two new tubes and two new tires. Same old legs, though. So it wasn’t especially fast on my part. And when I’m not especially fast that means I have to chase my lovely bride for the whole ride. As seen in this video.
No superlatives were set. But! On four Strava segments I was one second off a PR. That’s an odd bit of consistency, really. You have to accidentally not push on a lot to get right up to the magic number, but stop just short of a new time. It was a nice ride. The new tires felt smooth and supple. There was a lot of sun; it was warm and it is always nice to say you took a lunch ride.
I might take another lunch ride tomorrow!
This afternoon, I warmed up the recording equipment. I have to build a small studio — it is on the very long To Do list — but, today, I had to record a few bits for someone. Two scripts about psychology. Four pages. Lots of inflection. A few takes, just to be sure.
Took about an hour, from start to edit to send.
Just like that, my voiceover career is back on some sort of track. And, I made that banner for it, too.
And now it is the weekend, a perfectly, beautifully mild evening. Time to stop writing this, and go try that.
Enjoy your own weekend. Remember, you deserve it.
