Week 14/2025: Clouds and love and information

Week of 31 March 2025

Clouds and love and information

My main focus this week was getting ready for my acting class’s end of term performance, which we did on Sunday afternoon.

And I made some photos of clouds.

Love and Information

I rejoined my acting class this term and in the last week of term, all the classes put on performances for their friends and family.

My class took on some scenes from the play Love and Information by Caryl Churchill. This play consists of 52 short scenes that look at issues related to, as you might imagine, love and information. Scenes we worked on include Secret, God’s Voice, Wedding Video, and Mother.

Each scene is stand-alone and has no context. There are no characters or stage directions, so in the full production, each actor will play many roles, none of which are connected.

I first saw this play last year when Hobart College’s Drama class performed it, so it was interesting to come to it as a performer and to work deeply on a scene, as well as watching other scenes developing over the term, rather than seeing it all at once in a single performance.

I think it went well and I’m looking forward to going back to class next term, when we’ll work on a full-length play.

Cloud hopping

Daylight saving ended so the clocks went back and so did the time the good clouds were out.

I had fun.

Summary of the week

Habit tracker

• Go outside & exercise first thing (7 days): 7/7
• 15 minutes morning exercise sequence (7 days): 6/7
• Hip exercises (5 days): 6/5
• 2 walks or bike rides or a combination (6 days): 6/6
• Long walk (1 day): 0/1
• Walk 8,000 steps (7 days): 6/7
• 9.00 shutdown & dim lights (6 days): 3/6
• Evening routine (6 days): 3/6

What did I learn this week?

I went through some lessons of the Spacemakers Email Ninja course, and discovered one of the reasons why I have so many emails in my inbox.

Daniel from Spacemakers refers to them as ‘Groundhog Day’ emails, which we keep in our inboxes forever (or until we go on a deleting frenzy in an attempt to get the overflowing inbox under control).

When we come across one of these emails, we don’t know what it is or what to do with it but we know we have to do something, so we read it over and over again and leave it in the inbox. He says it’s like stuffing a letter you don’t know what to do with back in your mailbox.

This week I made an effort to get rid of most of the 500+ emails in my inbox, even if it was moving a lot of them to a folder called “emails I haven’t dealt with”. At least I can’t see them any more and I can deal with new emails as they come in, without losing things like bills and appointment reminders in the jumble.

Some of them are emails I wanted to read but haven’t yet, and some of them date back to 2020, which is probably way beyond the point that what’s in them became irrelevant.

It’s better than it was.

What did I notice this week?

The wavy shadow from the facade on wood paneling they installed to protect the mural on the former ABC Building while they do whatever they’re doing to it.

What was the best thing this week?

Doing our show.

What am I reading this week?

• Gunnawah by Ronnie Salt
•  ‘From Ely to Welney’, a chapter from Noreen Masud’s book A Flat Place
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

What am I watching this week?

• Australian Survivor
• Changing Ends (Alan Carr)
• Doctor Who ‘Logopolis’
• Scenes from Love and Information

What am I listening to this week?

• Lost Recordings by Mikelangelo