January 6

My Day

Dear Diary! My day really starts at lunch, but you know that already, so I won’t write that here. After Lunch, I had an appointment with my physical therapist. I go there, because my knees aren’t as good as I wished. I mean, I always had knee problems (for the first time, when I was like 12/13 years old). Then the problems disappeared again. But I’ve been playing volleyball lately (for the last 7 years) and now they were worse again. But I’m making progress. I’m nearly ready to play again. It took only 1 year to recover…

Enough of my knee problems. After my physical therapy session I headed home and started studying. I managed to read about two lectures. After my study-session, I had dinner. We had some mixture of potatoes, pasta, cheese and beacon (all in one pan) which is always nice.

After dinner I had to go to volleyball practice. Sadly not as a player, but as the coach. This took quite some time, but it also was kinda fun. As usual I did not really prepare any drills but had more of a vague idea of what should happen. They said, the practice was good. Now I can live with that.

Thereafter I headed home, and got back to studying. I solved exercises, for about two hours, then I watched an episode of “The Mentalist”, and now I’m writing (to) you.
I guess, I’m gonna finish this entry, watch one more episode and then head to bed.

Thinking about you

I was thinking a little bit, about writing in my diary. In the sense of: What should I write here? I never read a diary, so I was wondering, but I haven’t got an answer ready. But I had a few ideas. Mainly:

Idea 1: What happened this day
This would be, as it is currently. I believe this to be the usual way that a diary is written. Then I thought, “why would anyone read this?” and to be honest, I don’t know. This then also begs the question “do I really need anyone to read this?” And my answer to this is: Not really. I mean, it would be nice, but in reality I’m doing this for myself.

Idea 2: What I was thinking about/ feelings
This is the more personal approach. I think like this it would be more interesting, but is it really? I don’t know for sure.

I once saw a YouTube video, where some woman bought a diary off of amazon and read it. She said, that it was really interesting, since it was like, you were in the head of the person writing the diary. And I must say, I think this is quite cool. At least it sounds kinda cool.

Now that I think about it, I’d guess, most people writing diaries, write about their feelings and so. Otherwise, why would it be private?

So I guess, I’m transitioning now. I believe until now, I was mostly writing in the style of Idea 1, but I guess I’ll change that now (slowly). I don’t know, how it will turn out, but we’ll see. I still want the “My Day” section, but maybe a little shorter. I guess we’ll find the/ a correct way.

Outro

On a separate unrelated note: I thought, I need an outro, or something of this sort. Always at the end of the day, I get to the point, where I don’t know what to write, and then it’s this awkward transition to saying goodbye. To change that, I think, a small and simple sentence to sum it up would be nice. Like in the movie “The Truman Show” (which I did not see), he always ends his shows with

Good morning, and in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night!

and I think, this is a really good (and catchy) outro-like text. So something like that would be nice. (I’m not entirely sure, that I use this quote in the correct context, but to me this seems right.)

What should it sound like? I think, an uplifting good bye, maybe a thanks for reading (probably not – since, I always think it’s weird to write something like this), a see you tomorrow. A pun or rhyme would be catchy I think, so maybe something with that.

But now, dear Diary, I’m feeling tirey.
See you tomorrow!