January 26th, 2023 – 1,583

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t gotten around to visiting.”

I love all things aquatic. Always have. In Brighton, there is a Sea Life centre, billed as the world’s oldest aquarium. No brainer right? E’yep, if I have visited it ever, I’m too young to remember. Every time I see it I’m like “Oh yeah! I should go there!” – and then I never do. I should rectify that. But then that’s basically what I say when I see it so don’t hold your breath. Unless you end up in the tank, in which case do, and swim up. Ah, tired-me humour.

Not quite a 4 day week this week as I have a couple of things tomorrow, but this week marks the start of my new Monday-Thursday uni/college work schedule and, I am shattered. Granted, jumped in at the deep end but, I need to rest tomorrow best I can and tackle the next one for a more accurate picture, but I am gonna be exhausted by the end of the 10 weeks by this rate. Gotta pace myself, and maybe try to start the essays on Monday if I can too. It’s gonna be ok, I just need to approach this with logic, and as much self care as I can cram in. I decided to buy more Pokémon games today to give more variety to my downtime, so I now have at least one active playthrough in four separate Pokémon generations now. Variety I think is the thing that will help me the most right now, though, I do mean more than just variety of different Pokémon games…

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.