Another wasted day
Dear Self,
Today was another one of those wasted days. I spent the morning in a meaningless conference that I had to go to just because it was required to maintain my position as visiting consultant in that institution. There was a brief discussion there about a patient that they seemed not to be managing according to the latest standards - my friend and former classmate, who I was sitting beside, pushed me to comment, but I declined. Maybe two years ago I would have tried to correct them. But now, I'm just a little jaded and no longer feel as idealistic as I used to be. After giving so many lectures and conferences about the latest updates in our field, I find that there is just a lot of resistance to learning in this country. But I guess this is best further elaborated on in another letter.
Anyway, right after that, I had to run to my other hospital to attend another lecture, given by my resident trainee. This one was a bit more interesting and high-yield. I didn't feel like working after that so I went home to my condo when the lecture was done. Unfortunately, I turned on my Playstation 4, and started playing Path Of Exile... which basically consumed the next two and a half hours of my life. It was then that I realized that I had to start packing, since I was going home to our house today - which can be a 30 minute leisure journey in the evening, or a two to three hour tumultuous ride during the daytime's horrendous traffic. It was a bit tolerable today, though, and I only had to spend about an hour and a half in the car.
As per usual, I also had my voice lessons since it's a Friday. This was my first meeting with my teacher for the year. She gave a lot of praises with regards to my performance in last year's recital - comments from herself, the other students, and some of the audience members, as well. It was, undoubtedly, flattering. Perhaps I will relay to you my journey in music in another letter, as well.
I was torn between doing some of my administrative responsibilities and just chilling for the rest of the evening. The latter won out - so I did a few hours of karaoke, followed by some useless social media newsfeed scrolling.
What an utterly useless day. I'm sure I will regret this tomorrow and on Sunday, as I feel the brunt of my work piling up since I didn't do anything today.
I hope I would be able to manage.
Sincerely,
Lagundi
Today was another one of those wasted days. I spent the morning in a meaningless conference that I had to go to just because it was required to maintain my position as visiting consultant in that institution. There was a brief discussion there about a patient that they seemed not to be managing according to the latest standards - my friend and former classmate, who I was sitting beside, pushed me to comment, but I declined. Maybe two years ago I would have tried to correct them. But now, I'm just a little jaded and no longer feel as idealistic as I used to be. After giving so many lectures and conferences about the latest updates in our field, I find that there is just a lot of resistance to learning in this country. But I guess this is best further elaborated on in another letter.
Anyway, right after that, I had to run to my other hospital to attend another lecture, given by my resident trainee. This one was a bit more interesting and high-yield. I didn't feel like working after that so I went home to my condo when the lecture was done. Unfortunately, I turned on my Playstation 4, and started playing Path Of Exile... which basically consumed the next two and a half hours of my life. It was then that I realized that I had to start packing, since I was going home to our house today - which can be a 30 minute leisure journey in the evening, or a two to three hour tumultuous ride during the daytime's horrendous traffic. It was a bit tolerable today, though, and I only had to spend about an hour and a half in the car.
As per usual, I also had my voice lessons since it's a Friday. This was my first meeting with my teacher for the year. She gave a lot of praises with regards to my performance in last year's recital - comments from herself, the other students, and some of the audience members, as well. It was, undoubtedly, flattering. Perhaps I will relay to you my journey in music in another letter, as well.
I was torn between doing some of my administrative responsibilities and just chilling for the rest of the evening. The latter won out - so I did a few hours of karaoke, followed by some useless social media newsfeed scrolling.
What an utterly useless day. I'm sure I will regret this tomorrow and on Sunday, as I feel the brunt of my work piling up since I didn't do anything today.
I hope I would be able to manage.
Sincerely,
Lagundi
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