I took the night off from writing last night. Not really by any strong intention or lack of desire to write, just because I was kind of exhausted and had nothing compelling to say. This morning my mind is kind of busy.

My iPod, which I got free from Shivian sometime in 2006 (i Think) finally appears to have died. I won’t know for certain until I attempt to give it a new battery and perform the autopsy, but I don’t have high hopes for it. I’ve brought it back from the brink multiple times, but this doesn’t appear to be a situation where it’s likely to be saved.

That’s sad. I like having music with me all the time, but no huge loss. I’ll probably get another used one, or wait until autumn and then buy a new one. Until then, I’ll just do without. Or borrow one of Georges. He has two I think.

The dojo I take Karate at is offering a Monday night class now. I’m considering going to have an extra night to work out. I haven’t decided for certain yet. We’ll see how the next week treats me. I still have to finish memorizing my lines for ritual tomorrow and making sure I’m prepped and ready to teach this workshop.

It’s my modus operandi in these situations to wait to prepare until the last minute. I’m not sure if this is just procrastination, or if it’s because it makes me feel good to do well with minimal/time-pressured preparation. I suspect a combination of the two.

I’ve noticed that the purple line seems to be quite bumpy the last few days. Not sure what’s up, but the train is always tossing me around. Yesterday I almost fell over a couple times.

I woke up this morning with a pretty fierce headache in my left temple. It’s mostly gone now, but I still feel a bit grumpy because of it. Fortunately there are clouds today, so the sun isn’t in my eyes or blinding me whenever I look out the windows of the train. We’re approaching Sheridan now. I love looking out over the graveyard just west of Sheridan between Montrose and Irving Park Road. It feels so peaceful and quiet.

A few months ago, when I was doing Goetic workings a couple times a month, I was told by a spirit that though I am at home in the murky waters of the underworld I need to spend some time doing upperworld work. This has been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve begun to do this, firstly by paying more attention to my relationship with the divine. In working with divination and the spirits, I’m making an effort to be more aware of the energies and spirits on all levels. Though divination is usually seen as an underworld art, when it is focused upon as spirit communication, as I am attempting to do with my current practice, there is more opportunity to focus its target upon a specific realm or group of spirits/energies.

While I haven’t specifically been targeting the upperworld, I will spend some time doing so in the future. As a teacher and eventually a priest, and just as a person who wishes to walk with the spirits, becoming more at home in the realm of the divine powers is something that needs to happen.

This has been kind of a busy week. I need to take a look at all the things I’ve got going on and try to pare them down a bit. There are some projects, particularly a couple writing projects, that I want to work on but don’t seem to have the bandwidth for. Work is keeping me fairly busy, and I could probably stand to do a bit more work than I’m actually doing. But pretty much every evening I’ve had something else on my mind or something else that needed doing, or I was just plain too tired to sit down to write something more substantial than a blog post or two.

I know that I may have to cut back on blogging a little bit to make time for writing other things. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about that. Blogging has been one of the few, fairly consistent, fairly disciplined activities I have when it comes to writing. It feels like cutting back on blogging is not a step in the right direction here. I think I actually need to just make more time for writing, which really is one of my biggest passions. I’m not sure how I’m going to pull that off yet, but I’ll be thinking about it.

On the red line now, just heading underground. Got a few more stops before I need to close up the laptop and head into the office. I’m actually pretty fabulously late this morning, far later than normal. I stayed up later than I intended trying to beat this stupid little flash game called ‘Spewer’ on Kongregate. I got to the last level and gave up. I’ll beat it this morning. I am kind of looking forward to it.

I need to pay more attention to my diet again. The last month or so has not been very good for me on the eating habit front. With the move and its attendant craziness I resumed some really bad habits, like having frozen pizza as my default fall back meal. I need to address that pretty directly very soon. I think I’m going to go grocery shopping on Sunday to get some healthier choices that are just as easy in the house. And now that spring and summer appear to be hear I’m considering doing fruit for breakfast again. I’ve always felt really good when I’ve started the day off with an apple or an orange, so I’m going to try and get back into that habit.

Although brownies taste good too. Okay, that’s all I’ve got for the moments. I’m off.