I have a proven track record of fuck ups dawg, but the one I committed this week can never be topped. Even by my standards the level of this fuck up is absolutely monumental. What was supposed to be a casual easy monday turned out to be the most stressful day of my life. I was populating my calendar with my weekly plan, all hyped and all ready to crush it, and I see this stray calendar note saying my visa which in my head was supposed to expire at the end of the month was actually ending in 2 days. In two fucking days I would be staying illegally in the country I was supposed to be living my best life. I panicked, went straight to HR and what followed was a series of back and forth with lawyers and a spiral of going through immigration protocols and being poorer by 3 bags.
What did this teach me?
ALWAYS, always, always cross check what you think you have automated, my fuck up was because I relied too much on systems I thought should just work like clock work and as the title of this weekly review you can never be too sure. What I know going forward though, is that I will be extermely fucking paranoid careful when it comes to any sort of procedure I'm supposed to be undertaking which I dont think is that bad after all.
It was not all bad though
Amidst the shit show I was lucky enough to be enamoured by my loving girlfriend who was whole heartedly excited for my birthday and truly went out of her way to make me feel special, so there was a beautiful bliss around being celebrated. Then we took a day off on a weekday to just chill, which when I think about now was crazy, experiencing life just normally on a weekday, I'd forgotten what living life on a week day without having to look at teams or emails felt like because as you adult much of your holidays and life just revolves around the weekend or stretching your weekend to Monday but taking a day out on a random Wednesday felt so good. Also Manchester United is playing next level ball so there's that too.
Tweet of the week:
What I'm reading:
I finished another book this week, The Stranger by Albert Camus, another under 150 page banger so that's two books read in 2026. Big W. I've now picked up The Shadow of The Wind which apparently is a generational must read, so I'm excited about that and its a bigger book so lets see if I can defeat doom scroll and train my focus muscles.
Sport
I ran after 15 days on Saturday because of all the shit show and just not being able to get myself to put on my running shoes and the last long run really hurt my knees so I thought taking this time off would be benefical, so I laced out in my birthday gifted Asics and head out for a easy 9K, but 3k in my shit started flaring up and my ego so massive I decided I'm not coming off before 5k atleast so I did it and ended at 5k but bottom line is my muscles need healing and basically its back to the drawing board for me, I need to focus on a proper rehab plan which luckily for me is I have my darling girlfriend who is also a senior physiotherapist so my I'm on a proper rehab plan, no GPT self diagnosis. It's also I think a lot of insane mileage catching upto me, I have clocked over 120kms every single month since August 2025, so my muscles have finally said a big FUCK YOU to me, but I will bounce back, the main goal is to get back running pain free, I just hope my brother doesnt break my half marathon record while I'm off lmao.
$hit I was listening to on repeat:
Shit I'm looking forward to this week:
Just this visa thing getting sorted man.
Lastly, also made it to two editions of this weekly thing so let's fucking go gang! Even though the reading list is 2 people likely my brother and my girl but eventually this might see a few more people.