I have not done anything that marks the deconfinement s2, although i did walk past a local shoe/sports store and noted their first tactic was to do a massive e-bike sale (makes sense: public transport is operating, but many people would prefer not to use it, for obvious reasons).
Done Saturday:
- Talked to Shiny for a bit. They had been to an in-person (permitted) gathering *and* a jitsi party, and were thus in good, if tipsy, spirits.
- Laundry
- ??? Genuinely no idea what else. I had defrosted soup for dinner. I guess the afternoon went on recuperating from the previous two day's conferencing
Done Sunday:
- Made egg and avocado burritos with Jack Monroe's banana ketchup (from vegan-ish)
- Called mum. Mother's day present not yet arrived. Spoke to Ms10 briefly.
- Finished Mask #1, then had to give self a pep talk about perfectionism and skills we are not good at.
- As You Like It readthrough with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wildeabandon et al, which was much fun.
- Made roast tomato pasta for dinner.
- Decided to deal with my grump about imperfect mask by planning projects /three stages ahead/. Now I HAVE to do the masks, and the tablecloths, in order to fine-tune the skills necessary to advance to bloomers, and then to bolero jackets. I know from comparable skills that, *unlike*, say, languages, I do not cope well if I just leap in a step or two ahead of my objective level, but the life strategy of strategic over-ambition has merit in many situations.
Done today:
- More laundry
- Made my assigned post at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
covidcoffeecorner. Stop by, we're talking about stuffed toys.
- Spent some time panicking because NONE of my keytags would swipe me into the building (I could get in by an open cellar door). Called the real estate agent, who determined it was just the front door, and also apparently just me. By 3pm it was working again? Now unsure if I hallucinated it, or if it was something the renovating dudes just happened to be doing, or if - and this is possible but I really think unlikely - I forgot that the door has a little catch and you have to push it a bit. I'm sure I pushed it more than a bit!
- Due to above, did not go for a run
- Finished reading American Chaucers
- some phd>book draft
- signed up for another book review with Parergon
- Instead of running, took trolley and went up to the Other Migros, which turns out to be closer to home than the one I usually go to. Dropped off all my plastic bottles. Bought a small batch of grocery supplies (was out of milk), and then went back around and purchased 20L of potting soil and a pot of petunias. Never had much luck with petunias before, but hope springs eternal.
- On returning home, emailed some colleagues re possibly hosting a works-in-progress seminar for swiss researchers
- made vegetarian stroganoff - StrogaNOT, if you like - from the base recipe in Vegan(ish). Added mushrooms to the eggplant, and put the cream back in (didn't have sour cream, but 250ml of uht cream with a dash of lemon seemed to work). That used up the last of my (very very sad) potatoes, and also reduced the hamster-pile of shelf stable mushrooms a bit.
- Cut out the fabric for Mask #2. Identified somewhere I went wrong cutting the last one, but then made a different mistake this time. Not worth recutting, though, so onward ho. As I said to myself in my pep talk, I will make DIFFERENT mistakes next time! This time involves t-shirt material as well as more slippy satin, I shall be Tested.
Done Saturday:
- Talked to Shiny for a bit. They had been to an in-person (permitted) gathering *and* a jitsi party, and were thus in good, if tipsy, spirits.
- Laundry
- ??? Genuinely no idea what else. I had defrosted soup for dinner. I guess the afternoon went on recuperating from the previous two day's conferencing
Done Sunday:
- Made egg and avocado burritos with Jack Monroe's banana ketchup (from vegan-ish)
- Called mum. Mother's day present not yet arrived. Spoke to Ms10 briefly.
- Finished Mask #1, then had to give self a pep talk about perfectionism and skills we are not good at.
- As You Like It readthrough with
wildeabandon et al, which was much fun.- Made roast tomato pasta for dinner.
- Decided to deal with my grump about imperfect mask by planning projects /three stages ahead/. Now I HAVE to do the masks, and the tablecloths, in order to fine-tune the skills necessary to advance to bloomers, and then to bolero jackets. I know from comparable skills that, *unlike*, say, languages, I do not cope well if I just leap in a step or two ahead of my objective level, but the life strategy of strategic over-ambition has merit in many situations.
Done today:
- More laundry
- Made my assigned post at
covidcoffeecorner. Stop by, we're talking about stuffed toys.- Spent some time panicking because NONE of my keytags would swipe me into the building (I could get in by an open cellar door). Called the real estate agent, who determined it was just the front door, and also apparently just me. By 3pm it was working again? Now unsure if I hallucinated it, or if it was something the renovating dudes just happened to be doing, or if - and this is possible but I really think unlikely - I forgot that the door has a little catch and you have to push it a bit. I'm sure I pushed it more than a bit!
- Due to above, did not go for a run
- Finished reading American Chaucers
- some phd>book draft
- signed up for another book review with Parergon
- Instead of running, took trolley and went up to the Other Migros, which turns out to be closer to home than the one I usually go to. Dropped off all my plastic bottles. Bought a small batch of grocery supplies (was out of milk), and then went back around and purchased 20L of potting soil and a pot of petunias. Never had much luck with petunias before, but hope springs eternal.
- On returning home, emailed some colleagues re possibly hosting a works-in-progress seminar for swiss researchers
- made vegetarian stroganoff - StrogaNOT, if you like - from the base recipe in Vegan(ish). Added mushrooms to the eggplant, and put the cream back in (didn't have sour cream, but 250ml of uht cream with a dash of lemon seemed to work). That used up the last of my (very very sad) potatoes, and also reduced the hamster-pile of shelf stable mushrooms a bit.
- Cut out the fabric for Mask #2. Identified somewhere I went wrong cutting the last one, but then made a different mistake this time. Not worth recutting, though, so onward ho. As I said to myself in my pep talk, I will make DIFFERENT mistakes next time! This time involves t-shirt material as well as more slippy satin, I shall be Tested.