Realised annoying dance people used to do is called The Floss – image YouTube
January 15th Friday
Had big discussion with Eric about stuff, relationships, acceptance etc and went to see his new car 1998 Citroen estate, which he wanted to sell me for £1700. Nice big comfy car but has handbreak on floor. Dangerous for me. Another day I didn’t walk. Need to find more motivation and when finished business plan it will be easier. Next week need to redo using template sent by Oxford Innovation. I get printer to work usually involving switching it off, then sign and scan (required permission form) on phone to send back to them. Not sure why uni cannot do that.
January 16th Saturday
Wake at 8am and look at Twitter. Have long discussion with guy called Nick People put stabby statements like “no evidence” so I reply “no evidence for no evidence” and I go through all the jibes to conclude misunderstanding. Shows communication makes a difference. Brother battling snow in Madrid, gets taxi to gym as snow shoes break.
January 17th Sunday
Get up and drive to recycling tip. Lovely weather. Wait 15 mins in quite quick queue. Jog around doing recycling then “nip” to Sainsbury’s to get Irn Bru for Robert and Bordeau and spend £50 on drinks, meat, veg etc including a wok. Then go for walk with Eric to Swanpool discussing him going back to two bedroom flat.
January 18th Monday
Get up at 9am, put dreams in Luci app. Look at Symptom Tracker app and notice COVID cases going up in Cornwall. Quite a few dots. Make omelette, greens and steamed salmon breakfast. Start work on business plan from Oxford Innovation template. Ask tutor if 3,000 words is OK and will use template. Typically he ignores this and points me to an unspecified structure by wo authors in a book I don’t have time to buy, not a link straight to. He doesn’t specify if mine is OK, says it “should” be if same as one I cannot see. I really have to take up campaign for inclusive and accessible education in arts universities. This is simply wrong to outsource creative people to special needs. Found out annoying dance people did was The Floss.
January 19th Tuesday
Wake at 8, think about getting up, sleep til 9am, get up to put on dishwasher, reset alarm for 10am, wake feeling drowsy. Get up, make coffee, (bean to cup) machine wants a clean. Do clean, cook breakfast (same as yesterday). Chat to Jessica and decide to write a blog about mornings discovering difficult answer to sustaining ideal weight. I have to get disciplined to do daily activity as especially important to health as get older. February dedicated. February dedicated to making flat nice. Thought about 6 month plan for finances from brother. Need to keep focused but good to start writing process to do a blog. Added pics from Pixabay and realised mine have been downloaded. Need to add pics each day after February. Will look into routine.
January 20th Wednesday
Today is inauguration of Joe Biden in USA. Donald Trump leaves for Florida. Now, many more people understand the American electoral process than before. Politicians should get clear message you can’t mess with people for too long. Start writing business plan out by hand. Will type up faithfully today. Maybe switch to typing today is why academia is so much harder. Brain connect with hand so much better than typing. Got almost to end. Tomorrow will involve putting it all together. In evening watched end of History of Press and Public Figures. Then watched 1981 Top of the Pops. Didn’t realise Legs and Co still going. Unlike pens bottom of these pages. (writing fades).
January 21st Thursday
Woke up from interesting dream and had realisation. Things that people hate, which drives people to need extra validation is being dismissed, ignored, invalidated or belittled. If we want a more functional society and political class, we need to be mindful of how we interact. It is perfectly possible disagree or argue that someone is wrong, or something they said was wrong, more accurately and less personally, which is how it should be, if the person isn’t belittled, dismissed or invalidated. People do their best, unless they have another agenda – to be admired or praised – which drives public school educated Tory MPs without good class to any lengths of self-absorption.
Week 4 – coming on 1st October at 9am
Sophie Sweatman 
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