17.01.2025
A: What is your life outside of work?
S: Wouldn’t you like to know. You are what you do. Should I tell you my identity?
A: Precisely. This is why I ask.
S: What do you want to know? When?
A: Today.
S: After work, I called up the one I am with on the phone. That was the first thing. I talked about my day and asked them about theirs.
A: You called them first of all? And then?
S: I moseyed my way down to High Street Kensington for the Japan House exhibition. Where I wandered in the exhibition about a hundred Japanese craftsmen. Watching a video about the creation of ceramics and woodwork, reading displays about the philosophy of Japanese craftsmanship, pondering over the unique qualities of the artwork on display, messaging my friends and the one I am with with photographs of what I was seeing.
A: An interesting excursion. Anything for afters?
S: I browsed in the Marks and Spencer’s foodhall, which is one of my favourite regular shops, if not my absolute favourite. I love the food there. Then, I had a free dinner in MacDonald’s, a fillet-o-fish or whatever it is called with some fries. On the commute home, I finished reading ‘The Golden Road’ by William Dalrymple, about Ancient India and how it has shaped contemporary knowledge. When I had done with that, I listened to Hindi film music on my smartphone.
A: When you got home?
S: I ate some fancy Lindt chocolate. Then messaged the one who is mine, doodled on my tablet with a stylus and wrote to my penpal in New Zealand after watching some videos.
A: So. Phone calls, viewing art, reading, photographing, shopping, eating, studying, listening to music, watching videos, writing, writing, writing.
S: I got up to 23, 000 steps today too. Despite that, I got up from my seat on the Tube so that an old lady could sit down. A good deed outside of work to help others. Even though I’ve been on my feet and rushed off my feet all day.
A: And now?
S: It is about 23.28. It is time to try and get to sleep. Have you found out who I am yet?
diary of a lone man 