tuesday.

No word from my doctor, so I assume the lithium levels looked fine. That's a relief, at least.



Yesterday was some day. The trip downtown to get everything took its toll on me and I was completely worn out for the rest of the day, went to bed early, after we'd watched the final episode of the first season of Our Flag Means Death. But I got the gift card for my friend for her birthday on Saturday, I got new tea (caramel-flavoured!), supplies for the DIY decoupage project and a covid self-test because my friend's girlfriend is sensitive to vira and infections, so all the guests at the party have to self-test before showing up, just in case. And I picked up research material at the library. Sooooooo... many... books! I think there were eleven titles waiting for me, and I had to drag them home in public transport. My arms were hurting, some of them were really quite heavy, thick tomes. There are still five left on my reservations list, so they should be available within the next couple of weeks, too.



The plans for today are very, very sparse. I have to preserve a lot of energy for Saturday and I have my social workeer coming by tomorrow, so the other days need to be kept even more lowkey to compensate. Today I will be doing a lot of reading, I hope. I have a biography of the great Danish stage actress, Johanne Luise Heiberg - who lived and worked first half of the 19th century - to read in part and some non-fiction books to skim through, mainly one on the development of the Royal Theatre over the past four hundred years (though, I only need the articles on the 1880's), but also a very interesting introduction to the historical Copenhagen of Herman Bang's (Danish author who came to prominence in the 1880's, known queer) day and age. Besides that, I have some non-fiction books on the labour movement led by the maids of the bigger Danish cities in the late 19th century, 19th century general views on food and drink and similar topics. I also picked up two books for K. whose character is a businessman, so I found a biography on Tietgen, a business mogul at that point in time, as well as some non-fiction analyses of Danish involvement in the World Fairs of the late 19th century which should tie into her character's work and interests, too.



When I'm not going to be reading, I'll be doing the shopping (dinner for tonight and tomorrow), and take out trash (we've accumulated a lot of cardboard, paper and plastic waste) and generally keeping it nice and clean at home. I also need to call my mom.



My aspiration over the coming days is to write a story, in Danish, about Margrethe - my character's introduction to her career at the theatre. It is very dramatic and character developmentally interesting, and I would love to delve into it in depth.