At the edge of the future
25 Mar 2020 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](/makepkg/implementing-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glindaYou know that XKCD comic from years ago about the delicious cycle of nachos? I'm like that just now with home-made soup and bread - that bread needs used up, I should make soup. Huh, today I have leftover soup I should make bread so I don't waste that soup...
(This may be being exagerrated by the fact that I'm freezing a couple of portions of each pot of soup I make for 'emergency back-up'. A habit I've kept from my temping days, is making a pot of soup the minute I get a sniffle or a tickle in my throat, best case scenario lovely soup helps me repell the cold, worst case scenario I can live on soup for a few days while I'm down with the cold. All my immediate colleagues who were self-isolating are back in action - ordinary winter colds thankfully - or working from home - asthmatics - but as we have literally no idea what might help then soup it is.)
What I've Finished Reading/Listening To
Nope. Nada. Zip.
What I'm Currently Reading/Listening To
My continuing slow progress on Record of a Spaceborn Few (which I'm enjoying! Just...slowly.) and inability to get on with anything else fictional led me to think that maybe I just needed to read some non-fiction for a bit. I'm treated myself to a couple of pop-history books while I was out last week and having been getting along crackingly with Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem. The chapters are a good length (about 45mins to an hour's reading time) and nicely self contained so I can easily pick it up and put it down as necessary. In an attempt to give myself some much needed structure, I've been going to bed a bit earlier with a book and having breakfast in bed with a book in the mornings. A chapter or two a session means that I feel like I'm making decent progress without getting overwhelmed in either direction.
I also started reading His Bloody Project by Graeme MacRae Burnet which is pretty interesting - and which caused me to think I should make to the switch to non-fiction - but given that it's about some real life historical murders I decided was a bit gory for bedtime reading.
Podcast wise I've mostly been catching up with ongoing podcasts, but I have got into You're Dead to Me which I'd avoided before because I'm not big on comedy podcasts but actually they get the balance of funny and interesting right so I've been really enjoying it.
This time last month when I wrote one of these posts, I was contemplating a day trip to Aberdeen and the podcast listing potential therein, as an activity for my week off. Now that the week in question has arrived I'm plotting scenic routes by which to walk to the supermarket. Things are looking very different now.
What I'm Reading/Listening to Next
I'm working my way through this list of food podcasts to see if anything captures my interest. I'm also trying out Answer me This but I think it might be a bit too 'comedy' for this moment.
You'd think that escapist fiction would be absolutely up my street right now, but it's really not. I'm barely reading fanfic right now. Weirdly the only fiction I'm currently consuming is Person of Interest which I'm attempting to catch up on so that I can take part in![[tumblr.com profile]](/makepkg/implementing-https-www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
exchange-of-interest. It appears to be just the ticket for my viewing needs right now - and the music choices are on point UNKLE have such cinematic sensibilities to their music and I've never heard them used in anything else. It probably helps that because my laptop isn't as young as it was I tend to shut everything else down when I have a DVD on so if I put my phone out of reach (say on the other side of the room charging) I'm not tempted by other sources and distractions. I just watch. And knit.
Speaking of knitting, I started the front of my current jumper - a sleeveless pullover - on Saturday and I've almost knitted half of it already. I joked to my parents on Skype at the weekend that I might have it done by the time we next Skype but at this rate I really might...
(I can't do anything. It's taken me days to shake the urge to do something, anything to help but I can't. I'm on call, if they need me; they'll call. The best thing I can do to support my colleagues right now is to rest up, to eat healthy so my immune system is on form, so I can head back to work all refreshed to relieve my colleagues.)
(This may be being exagerrated by the fact that I'm freezing a couple of portions of each pot of soup I make for 'emergency back-up'. A habit I've kept from my temping days, is making a pot of soup the minute I get a sniffle or a tickle in my throat, best case scenario lovely soup helps me repell the cold, worst case scenario I can live on soup for a few days while I'm down with the cold. All my immediate colleagues who were self-isolating are back in action - ordinary winter colds thankfully - or working from home - asthmatics - but as we have literally no idea what might help then soup it is.)
What I've Finished Reading/Listening To
Nope. Nada. Zip.
What I'm Currently Reading/Listening To
My continuing slow progress on Record of a Spaceborn Few (which I'm enjoying! Just...slowly.) and inability to get on with anything else fictional led me to think that maybe I just needed to read some non-fiction for a bit. I'm treated myself to a couple of pop-history books while I was out last week and having been getting along crackingly with Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem. The chapters are a good length (about 45mins to an hour's reading time) and nicely self contained so I can easily pick it up and put it down as necessary. In an attempt to give myself some much needed structure, I've been going to bed a bit earlier with a book and having breakfast in bed with a book in the mornings. A chapter or two a session means that I feel like I'm making decent progress without getting overwhelmed in either direction.
I also started reading His Bloody Project by Graeme MacRae Burnet which is pretty interesting - and which caused me to think I should make to the switch to non-fiction - but given that it's about some real life historical murders I decided was a bit gory for bedtime reading.
Podcast wise I've mostly been catching up with ongoing podcasts, but I have got into You're Dead to Me which I'd avoided before because I'm not big on comedy podcasts but actually they get the balance of funny and interesting right so I've been really enjoying it.
This time last month when I wrote one of these posts, I was contemplating a day trip to Aberdeen and the podcast listing potential therein, as an activity for my week off. Now that the week in question has arrived I'm plotting scenic routes by which to walk to the supermarket. Things are looking very different now.
What I'm Reading/Listening to Next
I'm working my way through this list of food podcasts to see if anything captures my interest. I'm also trying out Answer me This but I think it might be a bit too 'comedy' for this moment.
You'd think that escapist fiction would be absolutely up my street right now, but it's really not. I'm barely reading fanfic right now. Weirdly the only fiction I'm currently consuming is Person of Interest which I'm attempting to catch up on so that I can take part in
Speaking of knitting, I started the front of my current jumper - a sleeveless pullover - on Saturday and I've almost knitted half of it already. I joked to my parents on Skype at the weekend that I might have it done by the time we next Skype but at this rate I really might...
(I can't do anything. It's taken me days to shake the urge to do something, anything to help but I can't. I'm on call, if they need me; they'll call. The best thing I can do to support my colleagues right now is to rest up, to eat healthy so my immune system is on form, so I can head back to work all refreshed to relieve my colleagues.)
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Date: 26 Mar 2020 09:35 am (UTC)Good luck. It's hard not to do things, often. ♥
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Date: 26 Mar 2020 06:12 pm (UTC)*virtual hugs*
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Date: 26 Mar 2020 05:06 pm (UTC)Niche references r us
Date: 26 Mar 2020 06:08 pm (UTC)(There was a genuine grammar argument in the office about whether it should covid or chovid but I stand by my choice.)
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Date: 26 Mar 2020 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 27 Mar 2020 01:47 pm (UTC)(If the argument was that it should be naoidheamh covid deug - the nineteenth covid - I could see the merit.)