Half way there, and had a half way decent sleep for about half the night. Woke up at five, non-groggy. Read six extracts from an anthropology book, as you do (blogged here). Did some more indexing of the wonderful "Magpie" newsletter of the Manchester Wildlife group while listening to ABC radio Adelaide, which had the... Continue Reading →
The Planning Fallacy rules my life. And I' [redacted] years of age. I brought this book with me, with the good intention of reading it while in quarantine. I'd bought it (two quid) a couple of weeks previously, at a charity event. Yeah, right. Fortunately, today is day 7 of Quarantine (7 more to go)... Continue Reading →
Sigh. Sleep patterns back to square two or three. And THEN I managed to get my timezones out by an hour, so the meeting I thought I was getting to early?... was just finishing. All was not lost, but v. annoying. Did a bunch of grunt work after that, somewhat sleep deprived. Then got my... Continue Reading →
It's Day Five in the Big Bother house, and the contestants are settling into a routine. Got some proper Dodo last night, or rather, lay in bed and dodoed intermittently and when it seemed like I wasn't going to dodo I resisted the urge to get up and tap away at this lap top like... Continue Reading →
Would that it were so easy to be ideologically pure.
The French philosopher Blaise Pascal said that all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Well, I'm testing that hypothesis. It's going... well, I think. Crap sleep last night, of course. Found myself waking at midnight and just going with the flow, did a couple of hours of work (some of it work work,... Continue Reading →
It's getting easier. My body clock is, despite what an objective observer might say, tumbling into fewer and fewer grooves in search of the Right One. And given that this is not my first time on this rodeo, I'm getting into better grooves on work too. Now, if there could just be a non-locked-down Adelaide... Continue Reading →
Just under thirty years ago, about 100m from where I am right now, I saw the wonderful Thelma and Louise. There's a short clip that stayed with me that I think we need to remember. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2b001c5a-43ea-41f8-9271-219994adf091 Well, I was watching Insiders (Sunday morning current affairs, mix of interviews, humour, panellists, on the national broadcaster ABC)... Continue Reading →
Near the end of my first interminable blog post about quarantine, I asked "am I to be deprived of the daily public health checklist call that was the highlight of my last quarantine?" With perfect comic timing, minutes after I hit publish, the phone rang. The usual rigamarole about personal details, contacts, past history, vaccination... Continue Reading →
tl;dr - the first 24 hours have been not bad at all. I even got some work done. Just over 24 hours ago the coach pulled up at a four and a half star (no, I didn't know they did half stars either) hotel in the CBD of Adelaide. After a brief wait while the... Continue Reading →
