[8/365] Thursdays
Jan. 8th, 2019 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistMy timetable for spring semester isn't nearly as bad as the fall one. I'm back to a decent "one or two things a day" schedule that works best for me -- with one problem that I knew I could fix. I even had a day off! It made me smile to see it was Thursday.
When James and I started talking and first arranged to meet up, it was I think a Monday. It was the beginning of one of the three-day conferences my work ran at the time, which makes for a pretty intense week for someone who was only employed for three days a week (some weeks I worked a lot less, which made up for these weeks where it was more because I had to hang around in the evenings). The upshot of this was that the first day I'd be free to see this person I suddenly wanted to see what Thursday. And he didn't work Thursdays.
This, especially combined with him visiting me during a hellscape of things going wrong at home which happened to occur on the next Thursday, seemed to establish a pattern of one of us visiting the other on Thursday. We traded off but it often worked out better for me to travel, and I got into a nice routine: leave the house by the time In Our Time is done, maybe get recognized at the train station for always asking for tickets to this weird place, buy snacks for the train journey, go for lunch when I got to Brighouse, then nap/go to the pub/listen to cricket/go to the cinema or whatever, and I'd usually get the 8:32 train home, which would get me back in time to go to bed.
It worked great for a few years but now James on Thursdays. This job seems better for him in every way except that, and even that isn't bad because he has weekends off like normal (when he had Thursdays off it was because he worked Saturdays, and he missed out on stuff his friends were doing because of that). But it does mean I have to wedge my visits into weekends, which means no routine, less reliable trains, and more stuff for me to juggle in my schedule (like, since June I have worked on Sunday mornings).
But even though it doesn't mean anything any more -- we both work on Thursdays now! -- I still thought of this and smiled when I saw that Thursday was my day off at uni.
Well. Provisionally. I knew I had to change that one thing. And I figured The Law of Sod would mean it'd end up changing to a Thursday. I finally sent the email to sort it out today, and when the reply came back...yep, I can choose one of two other times but they're both on Thursday. Ah well. No full days off, but this is still better than the alternative.
When James and I started talking and first arranged to meet up, it was I think a Monday. It was the beginning of one of the three-day conferences my work ran at the time, which makes for a pretty intense week for someone who was only employed for three days a week (some weeks I worked a lot less, which made up for these weeks where it was more because I had to hang around in the evenings). The upshot of this was that the first day I'd be free to see this person I suddenly wanted to see what Thursday. And he didn't work Thursdays.
This, especially combined with him visiting me during a hellscape of things going wrong at home which happened to occur on the next Thursday, seemed to establish a pattern of one of us visiting the other on Thursday. We traded off but it often worked out better for me to travel, and I got into a nice routine: leave the house by the time In Our Time is done, maybe get recognized at the train station for always asking for tickets to this weird place, buy snacks for the train journey, go for lunch when I got to Brighouse, then nap/go to the pub/listen to cricket/go to the cinema or whatever, and I'd usually get the 8:32 train home, which would get me back in time to go to bed.
It worked great for a few years but now James on Thursdays. This job seems better for him in every way except that, and even that isn't bad because he has weekends off like normal (when he had Thursdays off it was because he worked Saturdays, and he missed out on stuff his friends were doing because of that). But it does mean I have to wedge my visits into weekends, which means no routine, less reliable trains, and more stuff for me to juggle in my schedule (like, since June I have worked on Sunday mornings).
But even though it doesn't mean anything any more -- we both work on Thursdays now! -- I still thought of this and smiled when I saw that Thursday was my day off at uni.
Well. Provisionally. I knew I had to change that one thing. And I figured The Law of Sod would mean it'd end up changing to a Thursday. I finally sent the email to sort it out today, and when the reply came back...yep, I can choose one of two other times but they're both on Thursday. Ah well. No full days off, but this is still better than the alternative.
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Date: 2019-01-17 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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