I did two good things today. I was walking through the park and saw two women taking turns to stand in a patch of daffodils while the other took a photo. I waved them down and asked if they wanted me to take a photo of both of them. They were delighted.

I went to the computer lab after hours and found a wallet on the table. I flipped it open and discovered that its owner was one of my classmates, so I called her. She was very happy to get it back.

I have not ridden my bike for six days. I’m trying to slow down and enjoy life a bit more. I’ve been feeling stressed and unhappy for the past few weeks.

Yesterday, we went into London to present our project to the client. We’ve been working with an architecture firm on a renewable technologies toolkit for the past six weeks. The presentation went well and afterward, they took us to dinner. The food was from southern India and was delicious. But now I feel like I won’t need to eat for a week.

Because I’ve been avoiding doing laundry, I had an especially large batch to do today. I think I must have overloaded the washer because when I came back to check, the wash cycles were done but the clothes were still saturated with water. I put them through the dryer for longer than usual but the 70 p was wasted because the dryer didn’t dry the clothes at all.

In the end, I lugged the waterlogged clothes back home (stopping about twelve times to rest), then spent half an hour in the bathroom squeezing out the excess water. The skin on my left thumb has been worn away. I guess the wringing took some of the skin off. It hurts when I put on gloves to wash the dishes.