Weird

Monday was the day when this project got weird.

Of course I'd always known that it would get weird. Indeed I intended it to get weird. But Monday was particularly weird.

I didn't sleep Monday night/Tuesday morning, at all. It isn't that I wasn't sleepy. More that I had a Toastmasters meeting in Nova Scotia at 10:30pm, then another in Washington DC at midnight, and a third in Alaska at 3:30am.

In the event what I actually did was my usual morning routine after the last meeting, which is to say that I caught the first train into Cardiff to go to the gym. Then I came back home and slept through much of Tuesday 

AND COSTUMING. That's another thing that's weird, costuming. Until now I haven't perceived what I wear to Toastmasters meetings as "costume". Except for things like the Henry V speech and the Reflect on Path speech which clearly are costumed, I just wear ordinary clothes that belong to me because I wear them in real life. But Monday brought home to me how much I'm actually costuming speeches without always being aware of it. I changed costumes three times on Monday. I did the Macbeth on Screen speech in a t-shirt and sweater, because that seemed appropriate to talking about a nerdy project done on a computer during lockdown, but then I changed into a suit and tie for the Dallas speech, where I was playing the lawyer in the scenario I presented. And then I changed into a different shirt which I wore open-necked with matching trousers and waistcoat for the Limerick Toastmasters Club. And then of course into jeans and a hoodie to head to the gym.