July 21. Tuesday, Swimming Day.

5:10 am

I went to bed after 1 am but I woke up full of energy and now I feel really hungry. For a second I wonder whether to get up and prepare what I need to do today. But I can't get through the day knowing I only slept 4 hours, I would have a problem. I eat a banana and go to bed.

8:30 am

The alarm clock is ringing on my new phone. Uff, I'm glad it works. I'm always suspicious and don't trust new technology at the beginning. In the early 2013 my boyfriend gave me his iPhone. I had to get up at 5 am the next day to drive to my university in a town which was about 40 minutes drive away. I had to get to a lesson (about Spanish literature) which started at 7 am, but before that I was supposed to pick up a friend who lived in another town on the way. I didn't wake up because I had forgotten to put the volume on. My friend was calling me like crazy. Neither of us went to the class and my friend was pissed off for about two hours until I called the teacher personally and explained it was all my fault that we hadn't been to the class. Sometimes it's good to be honest!

I need to get to my class. Shower, music, breakfast, hair, makeup, clothes (I put a summer dress on and deliberately didn't put panties on - not because I would want to seduce my student - it's a woman and I'm not into that kind of stuff... yet? haha - but because I just felt like it and it's too hot outside), running around and thinking I'm gonna leave late again.

9:26 am

I'm leaving the house. I will be about minutes late but that's okay. This lesson is not formal.

Walking outside in a summer dress with no panties feels awesome. Have you ever done it?

9:30-11:00 am

I have a lesson with Mrs M, who I saw yesterday as well. She wants to speak and go through grammar before she leaves back to China. The 90 minutes go fast as usual. I regret not having a bigger breakfast though.

11:04 am

I'm gone with work for today! Yes!! I run to the store to get a present for my friend. It's so hot outside!

11:25 am

I just got home. I need to eat and prepare my stuff. Me and a friend are going swimming.

Scrambled eggs, cheese, toasted bread and hummus. 

I wanted to make tortillas but the dough I had made went bad. With a tear in my eye I throw the tortilla dough to the trash. Making it is not expensive, "dough" :-D, so I don't feel so bad.

12:05 pm

My friend P is here and we chat for a while.

12:40 pm

We get in the car and she drives me to a nearby town which is famous for its sugar factory. And, they also have an almost abandoned swimming pool. Not too fancy, but it's cozy and not dirty.

We swim, take pictures and my friend criticizes herself in every picture. I wonder if I manage to get a picture of her that she will actually like.

...I think she will like this one!

I get a beer and a hot dog and I read.

4:25 pm

I'm back home, tired from the sunbathing but happy to have fun in the sun.

I have nothing to do except clean the house, play with the pictures I took and make some snack. I prepare a smoothie from banana, blueberries, strawberries, ground oats, a bit of cream, quark and milk. (It's not dietetic, I know, but that's not what I'm going for). I made about 700 ml.

4:50 pm

I check Facebook and write a couple of emails.

5:20 pm

I've started working with pictures - uploading them to Smugmug, sending them to my family, editing them in Photoshop and thinking which ones I could use for something useful :-). I'm also drinking my delicious smoothie.

5:45 pm

I put herbal tea to boil - agrimony tea. It says: "Mix 2 tablespoons in half a liter of water and then boil for 10 minutes."

5:47 pm

I continue editing pictures while talking to my sister on Whatsapp and looking for a pop song I heard on the radio when I was saying goodbye to my friend P. In order to find it I googled 'top pop songs' and listened to each of them individually. It was kind of fun. Pop is not exactly my favorite type of music but sometimes I feel like listening to it.

5:58 pm

This tea is never gonna boil. I have to put the flame higher.

6:50 pm

Hmm, somebody is burning something outside. Smells like marijuana or some kind of weird cake.

6:53 pm

I still smell it. It's like a... it's the tea!!!

It actually didn't burn, only dried out. I wonder if it's any good. Well, since I won't drink it, but use it for bathing my cut on the leg, I think it will be all fine.

My mum would probably kill me. She is an herbalist and has been collecting herbs and making all kinds of herbal tea for as long as I live, I guess - she started in 1990. However, I also remember my mum has burned SO MANY things. One of the most serious moments (and funny at once) happened in winter on a Tuesday when I was about 12. I don't know why I remember it was a Tuesday, it might not be even right. Whatever. I came home from school, opened the door of our house and saw literally nothing. There was steam and grey smoke coming out. I got in. There was no fire, just lots of smoke. I ran to the kitchen and found a small tin pot with a few burned peas dancing at the bottom of it. I turned it off and opened all the windows. My mum came in running a few minutes later: "My pea soup!!!"

No wonder I accidentally burn things too.

I found the song. It's 'Want to Want Me' by Jason Derulo.

7:03 pm

The tea is ready! Yeei, I turned it off in time.

7:43 pm

My tea got too cold, so I must heat it up a bit. I hope I won't forget about it again and burn it...

7:50 pm

I remembered! My kind of burned decoction is ready. I have won! And it only took me 2 hours. I guess I'm not good at multitasking...

8:50 pm

I'm too sleepy to do anything else. I lie down, play with the phone for a while, watch the sky go dark and I fall asleep at about 9:25 pm.

11:02 pm

I wake up. It's dark already and the air still feels warm. I slowly walk to the kitchen, turn on a dim light and look sadly at all the mess I haven't cleaned yet. I will - before I go to sleep again! First I need to eat something, take a shower and then we can start talking.

Cold water, toasted bread and cheese. Too lazy to do anything else, plus the kitchen is too messy to cook in it.

I listen to iTunes Radio - to Kryštof Radio to be specific (Kryštof is a Czech band). The station is supposed to play music by Kryštof and songs similar to this band but I can see it doesn't really fulfill my wish.

11:35 pm

Shower. I'm usually ready in 10-12 minutes, but now it took me 20 minutes because I spent 5 minutes fighting my tangled hair and another 5 minutes peeling off the polish of my nails. It was time to get it off anyway. My hair hadn't been washed in 5 days. You might think it would look disgusting today but that's not completely true. I now wash my hair once in four days and it's presentable even on the fourth day. The secret is: the more often you wash your hair, the faster it gets oily.

12:25 am

I start cleaning the kitchen. Basically I take out some of my gifts from their packages and admire them. It's mostly cosmetics.

1:40 am

I'm finally having a proper dinner. And I finally sat down. When I work on my PC, I stand. I've been leaving my laptop on a cupboard next to my desk ever since I read an article about how dangerous it is to sit more than 6 hours a day.

As I eat, I watch Sex and the City. I started watching season 1 two days ago. I had never seen it and last week two different people referred to this TV show, so I decided to fill the gap in my knowledge of American pop culture.

• Season 1, episode 2
• Season 1, episode 3
• Season 1, episode 4

I told you I eat slowly.

2:56 am

I brush my teeth (which also takes me a long time) and go to bed.

I haven't finished cleaning the kitchen. Tomorrow's another day and I have no lessons! :-)

Plan for tomorrow:

• not feel hungry
• clean the kitchen