NEW WEBSITE, NEW BLOG

Hello to you all!

It’s been a very very long time since I last posted on here, but there is a reason for this…

I’ve been working on designing a new blog that will hopefully be more interactive and attractive. Work is still being done to expand it, but it’s currently up and running and you can find it and continue to follow my journey by heading over to: www.jonathanchappell.co.uk 

This current wordpress blog you are looking at now will not be continued anymore. Thank you so much for your support over this past year in helping me to grow this blog, 1,800 views in total! I look forward to seeing you over on the other site…the journey has not ended yet!

Jonathan

Week 35: The year is over…kind of!

Yes! Amazing! Our first year at University is actually done?! It sounds absolutely crazy for me to say that because it’s actually gone so quick. The last assignment was handed in two days ago now and I don’t entirely know what to do with myself!

I can reassure you that I’ve been very busy since the weekend…firstly I’ve had to finish off my assignment (which you can download and try out for yourself by clicking the massive hyperlinked text below – I’m not fancy enough for buttons yet) I’ve also attended a 40th birthday party – I had a great time! I’ve also prepped for a few meetings and started my placement!

You probably remember me banging on about getting a car for this placement… well I’ve got one, not the most glamorous of machines I must say (it’s some van kind of thing!) but I’m pleased to say I’ve managed it so far. I’m saying this because I’ve been driving an automatic since I passed… and that’s been nearly two years now! This is a manual and the whole gear and clutch situation causes me a fair amount of worry, but hey, it’s going okay.

DOWNLOAD GAME BY CLICKING HERE!

If you download the game you may wonder as to why it was made. Well, we were given the brief of creating an educational game aimed at primary school children. My game, as I hope you’ll see, is geared to teaching children how to tell the time in a (hopefully) fun way! I’ve already handed it in, but any feedback will always be welcome 🙂

These past two days of my placement have been good, I’ve learnt so much already and am buzzing to share some stuff with you all, so much so that, I can promise that next week’s blog will be about something technical again! (yay) I’m thinking it’ll be something to do with FM radio but you’ll have to come back next week to see.

This week I’ve also been prepping and packing for my trip to France, we leave on Sunday! This isn’t a course thing at all. I’m going to the Euros! (I mean it would be better to go as part of the BBC Sport team, but maybe something for the future eh?)  This means that there is a chance that no post will be up in two week’s time. I’ll try my best.

Finally, I hope you enjoyed this week’s cover photo. It’s the view from 870ft off the ground at the top of Emley Moor transmitter tower! I was fortunate enough to squeeze into a fairly tiny lift with 5 other people and chug all the way to the top. It too a good 7 minutes and was slightly unnerving, but we all survived!

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to put as much time into this blog as I’d have liked to, however, I do have some exciting news about the blog to share with you in the coming month… and I’ll also do my best to get back to my old writing ways as opposed to this short, snappy stuff.

All the best,

Jonathan

Week 34: Moor Transmitters

What a lovely week it’s been – weather wise that is! I’m up in Wakefield, Yorkshire at the moment and yesterday was an unbelievably hot day, I’m told it’s not normally like this. Literally, it’s like I’m in Spain!

This past week has been fairly busy as I’m working to finish off my Programming assignment which is my final assignment of the first year! Yay! I took a few days to just relax at the beginning of the week so admittedly I’m a bit behind where I had envisaged to be but the end is in sight so I’m feeling a lot more positive about it now! You’ll have to wait until next week to hear about and also try out this game – it’s called ‘Stop the clock!’ That’s all I’ll say for now aha!

So onto where I am at the moment; Yorkshire! As a first week induction to this placement, I have been sent down, along with Charlie and Luke as well as Aaron (who is from the second years), to Arqiva’s service management centre in Emley Moor. We are being given an overview of the company, what they do, as well as seeing what roles the people here at the service centre play in the grand scheme of things. I’ll be honest, it’s not entirely all that exhilarating as it’s not really engineering, but, it is useful to see how everything fits together and definitely has put me into the right mindset for next week, when I start down in Wrotham. Yes, for you attentive readers you’ll notice that it has changed from Crystal Palace. That’s because Wrotham is slightly closer to where I live, but also, I won’t have to face the horrors of London traffic. There is still the possibility that I’ll attend a few jobs over in Reigate though.

The views are great as we are literally out in the sticks (I’m currently writing this whilst standing right next to a field of sheep which are surrounded by many a hill!) On Thursday we’ll be going right to the top of the Emley Moor transmitter tower so I’m sure I’ll have some great photos for next week’s blog. I guess the business for this week is to just finish off my assignment, prepare the paperwork and such for Monday and begin prep for my trip to France for the Euros – more on that soon! There is also the small issue of sorting a car still but I’ve been reassured that this is being worked on. 🙂

Hoping you’ve all had a good week and I hope to bring you something more than an update post next week – oh yeah, and on time?

Jonathan

p.s. if you didn’t get it, the title is a play on words as I’m at the Emley MOOR transmitter site and this isn’t the first time that I’ve mentioned transmitters to you all… 😀

Week 33: The calm after the storm

Hello all!

This weekend I have tried numerous times to start writing this post but, as the late time-stamp shows, I have failed. This weekend I was at a church weekend-away at Ashburnham Place, which is an amazing building set in some wonderful Sussex countryside, and today some of my friends and I headed down to West Wittering beach where we had a lovely picnic and for the first time in many years, I took to the water in a kayak. So as you can see I have an excuse to some extent…

Anyway onto this news I promised you from last week’s post…

Those of you who avidly follow this blog will know that I mentioned a couple of months ago that my next placement would be at a company called Ericsson, well I can now confirm that this is no longer the case… unfortunately they were not ready to take anyone for a placement at this current time and so I was given the choice as to where I wanted to spend my next placement. I’m not really sad, if I’m honest, that I will not be going to Ericsson anymore, I wanted something a little more outside?

Instead my next placement will be at a company called Arqiva! This placement is definitely outside as, as far as I’m aware, they own and manage all the transmitter sites in the UK and so I’ll be working as an engineer on television and radio transmitters – specifically in the Crystal Palace-Reigate area. My choice stemmed from the fact that I enjoyed satellites so much from my last placement, I’m not entirely sure at this stage what it’ll involve, but that’ll give me something to talk about in the weeks to come and to spread some more news on things I learn!

Next week I will be heading off to Yorkshire where the Service Management Centre for their Terrestrial Broadcast Services is located and this will involve me going through some training – health and safety of course! I’m hoping that there will be some more news I can share with you on this matter soon, but can’t promise anything. I can say that I’m very excited to go to Yorkshire – hoping to get in some of those Yorkshire Dale views #goals.

On the University front – I’ve finished! Well kind of… All my exams are done, but I still have two assignments to finish off – Audio and Programming, which I’m hoping to get polished off this week! Next week’s post will hopefully be on my Programming assignment if I’ve been good enough and completed it all – it involves me creating an educational game, sounds boring I know, but I think my idea is pretty cool! Hopefully a cool post next week then 🙂

Til then,

Jonathan

 

Week 32: Some of the best places to eat-out in Manchester

Well, what a week it has been! It’s such a relief to get 3 exams out of the way, although there’s still a few more to go!

I’m feeling that I’ve played the ‘exam post’ card quite a few times already, so to do this again would probably be criminal of me. As a result this week’s post will not be about exams *sigh*.

Collectively, as a group, we have been out to a fair number of restaurants since this course started and recently much talking has occurred regarding a food blog…great idea I’m feeling! I won’t be doing it, it’ll be someone else’s job, but as it hasn’t officially started yet I thought I’d steal the opportunity to do a food post.

If you’re not planning to read on then you should know that I will be dropping some interesting news in next week’s blog as to what the future holds… so hope to see you there!

This coming week will be our last, as a cohort, together in Manchester for this academic year and Manc’s food scene is pretty decent from what I’ve seen so far. To mark the end of University for the first year (I can’t believe I said that) I have identified 5 of my favourite restaurants – if you should ever find yourself down that end of England I would highly recommend giving one of them a visit!

• Mowgli Street Food.

Website: www.mowglistreetfood.com

Why go? – It’s something different, food taste was a solid 4 out of 5 and the interior design and vibe is great!

What would I recommend? – Office Worker’s Tiffin

(The food arrives in these little parcels of joy)

It’s customary to have a curry every Wednesday on our course, and I believe we have since we started – yes, that’s a lot of curry houses! It would be very hard to not put a curry house down, although this isn’t necessarily what your standard curry house is, it’s different, and that’s why it’s on the list! As the name suggests – it’s indian street food and instead of ordering your standard curry, rice and naan, the idea is that you order many things in a smaller portion and have a great feast! If you’re brave you can go for a Tiffin – the chef selects what you get – essentially it’s a bit of a roulette, and it didn’t disappoint! There have been arguably better tasting currys in Manchester that I’ve had but this was a nice change and the food was still good.

• Comptoir.

Website: www.comptoirlibanais.com

Why go? – One of the best tasting meals I’ve had, they also do great sharing boards!

What would I recommend? – Mezze Platter and Lamb Kofta Tagine

(The Mezze Platter)

I can’t say that I’ve been to many Lebanese restaurants, however I will now. Another guy on my course, called Jay, kept on telling me to try it out and after I’d read the menu and heard how good he found it I thought I’d give it a go. All I can really remember is that the food tasted really nice, well seasoned, and friendly service – I do have a thing about plates though, and the plates they used were just bland and didn’t excite me about the food – the taste makes up for it 110%! That’s just me being picky though haha!

• Rozafa.

Website: www.rozafa.co.uk

Why go? – Little family run restaurant, with food that has seen some true love and care.

What would I recommend? – Any sort of grill, Moussaka and Garlic Pita

(Solid evidence of homemade food)

It’s a Greek and Cypriot family-run restaurant, surely that should be enough to make you go? Honestly though, the food was very nicely seasoned, the grills are a great option -juicy and tender meat, their chips tasted so great and the Moussaka was so good too! Portion sizes were more than enough, and I like a good portion. I would be careful what you order though as some items on the menu, such as the leg of lamb that is roasted for 3 hours, isn’t really worth your money compared to many other items on the menu. The interior is simple, nothing special, but the family vibe is there. I believe if you go before 6:30pm they have a special early evening price on all items from the menu too – we turned up at 6:20 so were lucky to take advantage of this!

• Sapporo Teppanyaki.

Website: www.sapporo.co.uk

Why go? – It’s a visual and culinary experience. Exciting.

What would I recommend? – I couldn’t say…

(As you can see…quite a show)

It’s a bit of a cheat me putting this restaurant down…I haven’t actually been yet! I do put this down on very well informed grounds however, as I’ve been told from a few people that the food is great and the atmosphere is quite ‘wow’! I can assure you that I will be visiting this coming week and will let you know if it is anything other than ‘wow’ next week! Google rates it a solid 4.5 out of 5 too…

• Luck, Lust, Liquor and Burn / Almost Famous

Website: www.lucklustliquorburn.com and www.almostfamousburgers.com

Why go? – Wacky twist on burgers that you’d never expect and some great burrito combos.

What would I recommend? –

From LLLB: F-Bomb and Wonder fries

From Almost Famous: Johnny Mac and Magic Waffle fries

(I can’t comprehend the wackiness)

Before you say anything…Yes, I have just put down two different restaurants in one point and that’s because they are owned by the same people and in Manchester they are right next to each other! I can’t explain how cool these places are… it’s making me hungry thinking about it! The Magic Waffle fries have popping candy, JD maple and bacon rain on them… it’s wacky okay! They’re by far the unhealthiest restaurants on this list but by far the coolest. Their cocktails are superb, the atmosphere is cool and the service is great – they’re always packed too, so that’s always a good sign! I always feel stuffed after coming out of there so try and hold yourself back if you can aha!

So there we have it! List done 🙂 I will say that these are my own opinions and that I have not been paid to do this at all… you may disagree with my choices but I’d like to think I have a fairly good idea as to what is good and not good food…I’d also love to hear what you think if you ever do go to any of these restaurants! Honestly these are some of the greatest places I’ve been, they wouldn’t have made it onto the list otherwise.

Tune in next week – I’ll be dropping some interesting news as to what is coming up!

Have a great week,

Jonathan!

 

Credit to the above named websites and also www.tripadvisor.co.uk and www.pinterest.com for the use of the images on this post.

Week 31: A dog walk a day keeps exam stress away!

Hello!

I feel like I say this every week now, but, this week has passed very quickly! This week’s post will be more of an update than anything else, as quite frankly, it’s hectic.

This past week was spent at home – for private study of course! Yes, I’m sure it appears to you all that I’m hardly at university, and I suppose you’re correct when you say that! However, there has been plenty of work to do and continues to be…the great news is that it will all be over in 3 weeks time! Yes, no more work for this academic year!

This coming week we have our first set of exams. It’s the Computer Networking module and so I’ll be down in Birmingham for the very last time this academic year! The exams consist of one written, an online and a practical. In theory it’ll be straight forward but plenty of prep will hopefully be going on in the next few days in order to prepare for this!

I’m feeling a little bit more ready to go and get stuck into these exams now, as this past weekend I took a fair amount of time out to spend time with friends and go on some very relaxing dog walks! Dogs are so great! So here’s to the week ahead! All the best to everyone else on my course, but also anyone else who is taking exams this week…do your best!

Til next week!

Jonathan

Shortest blog post yet? I’ll make up for it…

Week 30: Get Those Antenna Where I Can See Them!

Hey!

As promised, this week’s blog is brought to you again by Jacob, who was assigned to work on a Scottish elections OB as their engineer! It’s all very exciting, I hope you enjoy…

I was never one for an all-nighter. When I say never, I mean never; I have not once been awake to see the sun rise the next day. So what better an opportunity than to do it whilst working on live TV! This is a brief account of my Scottish Election story, though it may be boring as nothing particularly bad went wrong, but for me that was just the way I wanted it!

 

The Scottish Parliamentary Elections took place on Thursday, the same day as some Mayoral elections and PCC elections. For BBC Scotland this meant going live to 24 locations covering about 90% of all the declarations. These feeds went back to Pacific Quay (PQ) in Glasgow. Here they had set up Studio A as the election Hub with several huge LED screens to view statistics and a giant Augmented Reality stage on one of the floors in PQ for an even more involving experience with detailed interactive graphics to depict the way the electorate were voting.

 

On a broadcasting note, there was quite an array of different ways in getting the declarations and stories back to the studio. Every location had to communicate with The Hub (this is where all incoming calls and video feeds were received, which were then whittled down to send a couple for Studio A gallery to pick up on). Communication and talkback were mainly using a DSL line at the venues via VoIP, although there were variations as some used a 3G/4G connection. Then for the actual video and audio there were some Sat trucks, WMT Mobile bonding and then some using satellite internet for IP streaming.

 

For me however, it was rigging and monitoring a WMT. My unit was in a simple rackmount case. It took the SDI with embedded audio that first went through a SSD recorder (which I used for monitoring purposes) then looped through to the WMT. In most cases it was desired to have the WMT using a DSL line and the 8 sims (ordinary phone sims with different carriers) working together offering extra levels of redundancy. But for my location it was impossible to get a DSL in the flight case so I used some extra antennas. I had two omnidirectional and one directional that would help me get some extra coverage so the 3G and 4G speeds were nice and high to get some good bandwidth for streaming the IP encoded video. This data, just like any IP traffic, is forwarded to the destination which in this case was the playout servers at PQ. All the separate WMT streams could also be managed and statistics viewed via an online video manager interface.

 

Naturally, the election counts often need to happen in large indoor spaces so leisure centres and sports halls are ideal. But less ideal for broadcasting from. Particularly where I was in Clydebank where it was a massive metal cage, essentially acting like a vast Faraday cage. Whilst the camera was positioned up on a balcony I ran a long SDI barrel down a flight of stairs and to just inside a fire exit where my flight case was positioned. Then I rigged the antennas just outside on two tall stands and ended up getting some excellent signal. We did not have a single fault with our broadcasting the whole night over our several live broadcasts, which I for one was relieved about, as were the cameraman, producer and presenter I was with.

 

After the bundle recounts we finally had our second declaration, next the interview with the MSP who had won the election by 109 ballots for both TV and radio. Then it was a case of packing up and taking all the equipment back to the hotel, which I unloaded and loaded into a taxi back to PQ. By that time it was around 7:30am, and it was a wonderful morning in Glasgow: PQ was still broadcasting and the overnight team were waiting on the last couple of declarations, and, as I’m sure is no surprise, everyone was extremely tired. But it had been a fantastic night/morning of broadcasting, delivering the informative, educative and entertaining programmes that the BBC is known for. As for me, I went to the hotel, had some breakfast and was off to bed after 26 hours awake. Still, roll on May 2020!

 

Jacob

Week 29: The Critical Bandwidth :O

Hello!

This week’s post is going to be a bit more informative as opposed to the past few weeks where I have just given my opinion on what’s been going on. There’s mainly two reasons for this; I’m currently finalising my audio assignment, which is looking into audio compression and it’s perceptual effects, but also because my mind is so clouded with a load of random rubbish, that if I were to offer my own opinion on the situation in hand I fear it would be catastrophic.

So as my assignment is looking at audio compression, I think I’ll take a tap off of that and spill some of that on here… don’t worry I won’t go into as much detail as what I have for my report, but just an overview whilst explaining some of the terms should suffice.

In the world of codecs and audio compression there are broadly two main types you can come across; lossy and lossless. The first, lossy, produces a file which is of a considerably reduced size due to the fact that data has been lost, whereas the latter, lossless, produces a compressed file where the original data can be perfectly reformed from the compressed data. Typical instances of lossless would be .zip files and lossless audio is only really used for archiving. Mainly the compression we use on audio is lossy because we want the file to be smaller in size. This could be because we want to transfer music over the internet or because we don’t have much room left on our devices.

There are some compression methods which totally suck and produce terrible audio files, however, there are some other compression methods which are not half bad and most of the time you cannot actually tell the difference between the compressed and the original file. For example in my project one uncompressed file had a size of 15.5MB whereas the variable bit rate compressed file was only 2MB and you really couldn’t tell the difference!

Bit rate is basically how many points are plotted per second – the more that are plotted, the better the representation of the audio signal and therefore the better the audio sounds. The variable part of that just means that a different bit rate is used throughout the audio file. This is one of the ways in which audio can be compressed fairly efficiently. If there is not much happening during some parts of your audio file then less bits (information) need to be stored for that part of the file, whereas in parts where more happens then you’ll need to store more information about the audio as more is going on. This can be better than using a fixed bit rate as some parts of your audio may not need as much as others and therefore you are just wasting your space with information you don’t need.

Another way which codecs can reduce the size of your file is through the exploitation of critical bands. The human hearing system has a limited ability to decipher the difference between two tones that fall into a given frequency region because they appear to merge into one. This is the critical bandwidth. If one sound is louder than another sound which is still within this ‘critical bandwidth’ then the louder sound will mask the quieter one out. This is where the perceptual concept reduces the data; the quieter sounds within the critical bandwidth are either removed or reduced by assigning fewer bits to it, thus reducing the size of the audio file, while at the same time, failing to produce any audible difference – depending on how harshly it is used.

Anyway, that’s all for now before I start rambling on ahaha!

Hoping this proves to be vaguely interesting and maybe next time you download an mp3 from youtube-mp3 or whatever you’ll think of this post and what’s going on!

In other news; some of the guys and girls from our course are heading off to Scotland to help out with outside broadcasts for the elections this week, so, if you see anything on a beeb channel to do with this, maybe spare them a thought as I’m sure they’ll be tired and probably cold! I’m actually sad to be missing out – it’ll be fab I’m sure!

I’m hoping I’ll be able to get some exciting news on that into next week’s blog as they’ll also be testing new ways to get footage between places.

For the rest of us it’s revision…so I’d better get on that now.

All the best!

Jonathan

Week 28: Comparing yourself to others

Hello!

This week’s blog post is brought to you from a very fast moving Virgin Train #shoutout – literally I feel like it was yesterday that I was coming back from Manchester, I mean that isn’t far off – it was actually the day before yesterday!

Currently, as many of you fellow students will know, we are in the run up to our final exams of our first year; this week will be our last of lectures. Scary thought. As a result I thought I’d take this moment to have a quick reflect on how far things have come, because, quite frankly, it’s scary to think how quickly it’s all gone.

On the academic front we have all, so far, passed every exam – in fact I believe I’m right in saying that the average for each exam has been beyond the First margin, which when I sit back and think, is amazing! I don’t want to jinx anything, as we still have a large portion of our modules still to complete, but I’m feeling we will all pull through this. We’ve learnt a lot, I can’t even begin to say. Last week, on my TimeHop, a few statuses and events came up relating to my EPQ I completed on programming a Java app for Android. This was a great struggle for me and I can’t tell you how pleased I was to finish it. Fast-forwarding a whole year and I can say that I actually understand Java a lot more now, though I must say our next assignment to program a 3D game is going to be interesting…

I feel that it is incredibly important that every so often, you take a step back to see how far you’ve come, analyse it to see what went well and what didn’t, and then use that to plan forwards. I guess this is what I am doing here, and this is what has enabled me to see how I have been putting myself under unnecessary pressure. I don’t know if you feel the same way, but hear me out…

I feel we live in a world where comparing yourself against someone else is seen as the way to measure success. For instance, I recently achieved 76% in a piece of work, but when I found out that many other members of my class had achieved 85% plus I didn’t feel so great about what I had achieved anymore. When you sit back on it and look, 76% is a great mark. Yes, 85% is a higher mark and therefore that person is technically ‘better than you’ at what that exam was marking you on, but how good you are is so much more than one exam. It’s so much more than many exams. In fact, I think it’s so much more than exams. An exam is just society’s way of trying to measure how good you are and comparing that against others – I can’t say how much the exam system annoys me, that’s something for another post. For this post though, I think it’s important to take away that you shouldn’t compare yourself to others, it’s easier said than done – I still find myself doing it! Yes, look at the work other people do, but use it as a way to inspire yourself, not a way to beat yourself.

So as we come into the exam season, just remember to do your thing, try not to put yourself down.

I was going to talk about how we’ve all grown closer as a group, but I seem to have gone off on bit of a tangent… I’ll leave that job to Michael, who will be guest writing for you all in a few weeks!

Hopefully this post made some sense,

Til next week,

Jonathan

p.s. many thanks to Luke for the iconic photo of the Manchester Tram!

Week 27: One step at a time

Hello everyone, I have finally posted!

It’s nearly been a month since you’ve all heard from me, and I’d like to thank Jacob and Charlie for the past two posts, I hope you all found it interesting.

In terms of an update on the situation at present; it’s the tough build-up to exams – these start in a month, but I can assure you the pain has already started.

Exam revision has always been a grey area for me, I’ve never really known what to do. I’ve tried making mind maps, recording videos, reading through notes and even frantically copying out textbooks – something I’ve found to be extremely unhealthy and also semi-useless.

This past week has been a reading week for us which is the perfect time to catch up on all those lectures. However, although I have done some work, I spent a fair amount of it allowing myself to recover. Like many other people on my course, but also students in general, work and revision can cause anxiety, stress and pain (if you’re a student and have never experienced this then count your lucky stars!)

I came home last week with the mindset of blasting through everything I needed to do, but as soon as I even contemplated any sort of work it reduced me to an absolute mess. It’s hard to talk me out of work most times as I like to be on top of things and doing well, but lets be realistic, theres always something more you could’ve done on that piece of work. An important thing to remember is: your health is more important than learning something. It’s a terrible feeling to have; knowing there is an endless array of work looming over you, but, the fact is there is very little we can do about that – unless you leave your course and sit at home (but it might not be wise to just sit at home).

Anyhow, I was sent a great tumblr link (grrr rivals) regarding dealing with revision and such; it really helped… so I’ve put together my own, shorter list. It helps me, but I’m hoping it’ll help some of you:

1. Plan out a revision timetable – some of you may have already done this, but for me this was the hardest thing to actually do. A big task can seem overwhelming, so break it down into small chunks and assign the small chunks to a different day – I’ve found assigning slightly less than you want to is a good rule of thumb as it allows you to compensate for unplanned events (you can always do more if you have time). I feel a lot less overwhelmed by the work and that I can manage it when I know I’ve got it planned out.
2. Don’t be afraid to take things slower than you planned – this is where planning slightly less than you want makes this a little easier. Some days you’ll be less productive and some things will need you to read over more to understand what’s going on – that’s more than okay! Don’t beat yourself up over it (easier said than done) Move away from the work if it’s hard day – pushing through won’t be productive and may cause more problems. Chances are, another day will go quicker than expected and everything will even out a little. It’s better to take longer and understand what you are doing than rush through and not entirely know what you’ve done.
3. Get yourself out your bed/bedroom/house – for me this is crucial to doing work. I’ve had very few productive sessions at home. Obviously it’s not always possible to get out but if you can get to the library or a place where other people are working it’ll give you a bit more motivation as you won’t feel as lonely, you can’t take a nap and you’ll feel they can hold you accountable for what you have to do. The very least you can do is get out your bed – it helps a lot.

 

I know this may seem obvious to some of you but sometimes you just need to read it again to remember.

I hope you all have a good week,

Jonathan

p.s. much thanks to Hannah for the cover photo and tumblr link 🙂