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Kez

Shift work, two jobs, one very tired woman.

Wigan, UK · Wigan, thirty-five, two jobs, care work and a supermarket, permanently tired.

Their journal

46 entries, and Kez is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 21 Mar 2026week 94settled energy 44 replies

    Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady, one job, more sleep. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. The strange part is not having a project…

  • What it displaced

    Friday 24 Oct 2025week 73pinched energy 12 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Did the arithmetic out loud, on the page, no rounding. It is a lot. Seeing it written down was steadying rather than frightening, which I had…

  • Laces

    Thursday 5 Jun 2025week 53pleased energy 32 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Walked to work instead of the bus for a month. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I…

  • She stopped the room

    Sunday 23 Feb 2025week 38warm energy 52 replies

    Quickly, before bed. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour.…

  • Nothing to report

    Thursday 20 Feb 2025week 38fine energy 43 replies

    I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. No news. The dog is well, the…

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11 Jun 2026 — What is the last thing that felt like progress and had no number attached?

Slept flat.

30 May 2026 — What is your commute or your travel like at the moment?

Booked the appointment I have been avoiding since March.

21 Apr 2026 — What do you need this week?

Put the heating on rather than being stoic about it.

16 Apr 2026 — What are you counting down to?

Six months since I stopped and it feels both longer and shorter than that.

Buddy

ongoingPlateau

Twelve weeks of nothing, both of us at once

Mark and Kez hit a long flat stretch at the same time and spent three months talking each other out of quitting on alternate weeks.

Mark and Kez · since October 2024