This week things have made me happy, including Happy, a book I think I pick up at least once every couple of years and re-read in one enormous gulping go. I’ve also been thinking quite a lot about my autism, so there’s some of that in here too.
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Weeknotes S06E16: agitating
This week I’m thinking about playfulness/flow; moving on; and setting up
Continue readingA theoretical solution for solving a very niche problem
A problem I’ve bleated about before for ages. If you run a graduate scheme, and you spend a lot of staff time trying to move people around, I have a solution for you.
Continue readingWeeknotes S6E15: and tell them, this is what love is
A bizarre mix of two things for you: love, and a rant.
Continue readingWeeknotes S6E14: toxoplasmosa gondii
A colleague and friend, during a deep discussion about work-life balance, commented that he sometimes felt as though he were infected with the parasite toxoplasmosa gondii which can, in certain cases, make rats attracted to the scent of cat urine.
For a rat, this is a love affair surely fated to end in misery.
Continue readingWeeknotes S6E13: Ethical code
This week I’m thinking about doing the right thing. I should assert that this new focus is divorced from any and all current events.
Continue readingWeeknotes S06E12: Contradictions
Jenny pointed out how bizarre it is that I live in a curved flat. It’s got me thinking about other current contradictions and how I live with them.
Continue readingWeeknotes S06E10: Moving
Moving house very suddenly, and I’m consequently feeling many things.
Continue readingWeeknotes S06E09: Remote works
Last time I wrote I was creative and going to the gym.
This time I am fatter and have had writer’s block for a fortnight. Ho hum.
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Read the poem on a computer screen. It needs the ‘Verse’ formatting but it looks bloody awful on your phone. Sorry.
Edit: or just turn your phone landscape. Thanks to gregthobbs for noticing and kindly commenting
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