Luke Hand Diary

Guess it’s hard to explain


Listen Later

Work. Not enough data through over the weekend for us to be able to run the shifts we’d rostered for this week. Very annoying. Hate cancelling shifts. Suuucks. I was talking with my work wife about my idea of a working holiday and I heard myself giving a fairly good reason for taking a trip that I hadn’t thought of until I’d said it out loud. Basically, the break-up with Sophie is something I still kind of time things back to in my mind, as a lifeline landmark in time. The beginning of Covid is another big marker that I measure time to as well, but the Sophie break up and resultant emotional calamity is something I feel more. And I was saying that it would be good to have an experience that I could use as as full-stop to the hangover from that break-up. Or to replace that landmark as the last landmark that I hark back to in my mind. I’ve never been good with dates and times or having a sense of when events were - sometimes when I’m trying to work out when something happened, I’ll plot it against where I was living, whether Sai and I had gone on our trip yet, Hawthorn winning the grand final in 2008. I think that for quite a few years in the Sophie relationship I was trapped in debt and unhappy in the apartment there, but trapped because I wanted to fix the splashback before I could even try to move out, but I was drunk all the time because I was too poor to do the repair, and it became a circle that kept me trapped - and that all led to just such a long time being spent with time zooming by and me not marking the time or having any experiences to punctuate the time. Since I think recovering from the worst of the break up, I have a better sense of time now and feel it more when it’s getting too monotonous. A trip and an experience now would be great, because I’d be grateful for it in real time as marker of time and or the end of that hangover period. Anyway - getting repetitive now. Guess it’s hard to explain. Went for a swim. Bit windy, but nice and green. Mum popped up to the beach for her fourth swim of the day. I rode to town and got Mexican. Pretty good. Got my first issue of Hello! in many years. Royal issue. Did a little gardening. Would like to get two square units of lavender and of rosemary growing in this little patch next to the garage. Worked for a while on getting a Twitter bot working. No joy yet and need to adjourn for the evening now. Damn - not tired. M: 7. E: 7. 😐😓😀🤩
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Luke Hand DiaryBy Luke Hand

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

2 ratings