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🥱 Spent most of the week sorting out life admin and being ill with a bug 🤧

🏋️‍♀️ Last week’s weight loss: –2.5 kg 👍

📚 Cambridge Latin, Book 1, part 4 ✅

💰 Lost most of a day searching for better home and car insurance quotes; time well spent though, ended up saving a stack!

🎲 Monthly board game night at a friend’s house; played Terraforming Mars for the first time. Really liked it! Also, I won.

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💼 Started doing prep for the new job

📚 Cambridge Latin, Book 1, part 3 ✅

🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…

🃏 Won another tournament in our poker league: 9 players, 1st prize was 6x the buy-in; back-to-back wins move me up to 3rd at the halfway mark, only two points off the lead!

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📱 Broke my six-year-old iPhone, three months before I was going to upgrade to the latest model; have bought another old one off eBay to bridge the gap 😩

🎥 Went to the cinema to see John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) …for the first time! 8/10

💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳

📚 Started re-learning Latin—entirely for my own amusement—30 yrs after reading it at school; Cambridge Latin course, Book 1, parts 1–2 ✅

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