Pandemic days 70-72
May. 25th, 2020 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricMost notable, I guess, for the fact that I now feel like it's okay to 'pop to the shops' for one thing or another.
Done Saturday: I don't really remember the order of events, but it definitely included the following:
- reading a couple of articles in the summer Meanjin (my autumn issue went astray, and the re-send may possibly make it here before the winter one if i'm lucky)
- fussing with plants, including emergency repotting of the rosemary as they blew off their ledge in a rainstorm
- called parents, all is well there. Showed off my FURNITURE.
- pasta with a very minimal accompaniment of sautéed onions, tomato, feta and basil: mainly to have a reason to cut the basil back.
- placed an iHerb order for more spices, since apparently that's how I can get things like 'allspice' in switzerland.
- German lesson
- went for a wander in the rain in the evening to replenish supplies of wine and haribo. Found the service station I had done my first toilet-paper stocking at back in March - I WONDERED where that was. The walk was nice, the purchases unnecessary.
- Installed tinder and promptly deactivated in horror upon discovering that it is an app designed for you to swipe yea or nay based on /photographs/ without detailed bios. In fact I'm not even sure the people it was showing me when I asked it to show me women were interested in women? Because it didn't ask ME who my target audience is.
- Resumed listening to Unwell. Accidentally listened to several episodes i'd already listened to but this time in reverse order. If Magnus was working out for me because each episode is (or was, until recently) its own self-contained plot, Unwell seems to work for the opposite reason: it has a plot, but the plot is so slow that each individual episode might as well have only been lightly fragranced with eau de plot. Some spooky, but very little tension.
Done Sunday:
- Started reading 'The Mercies' for an online book club. Read sixty pages! That makes it the first fiction to actually hold my attention consistently for a very, very long time. It's reminding me of Burial Rites, in a very good way, although not QUITE as impeccable historically (or maybe it's that I know more about the early 17th century than I do the early 19th in northern Europe). It has already passed my personal 'sausage test', with a catching-killing-and-gutting of large seafish sequence.
- started writing a letter to Shiny, because if i send emails of random things I thought of and think they'd find interesting then they'll feel pressure to write proper responses.
- went for a run. Took a different route, found a patch of woodland on a not too steep hilltop with navigable paths. Am still repeating wk 3 of C25k. Considering ditching it for simply one-song-on-one-song-off intervals: as happened last time, the jump from wk 3 to 4 is Daunting.
- Playreading withwildeabandon et al. Alan Bennet's Habeas Corpus, which was... definitely a play. That we read. Very rapid-fire farce. This is only my second encounter with Alan Bennet: do ALL his play's involve what would, in contemporary UK parlance, be called Safeguarding Issues? Is that just his Thing?
- Another episode or two of Unwell.
Done Today:
- listened to half an episode of Carbone14 and then realised I don't know enough about Martinique to keep up.
- called Friend R in Scotland, who is as well as anyone who went into voluntary isolation when Italy shut down and isn't coming out any time soon can be.
- two pomos worth of reading on the RdR, discovered stuff that really SHOULD have been in my PhD, and am suspicious of the translator. But reading in the english first and THEN the french means this time i'm a. noticing the humour and b. not skimming over the stuff that is relevant to my final argument but wasn't relevant to what i THOUGHT i was doing in 2014.
- further progress on the EM stage violence book
- German class. I like the praeterite.
- Payday. Did assorted financial juggling. Found a medical bill I hadn't expected: turns out I get charged a lot extra if in my 'nod and smile' mode in the pharmacy I accidentally said yes I want the brand name med and not the generic.
- More shopping. Placed an Underworks order: one women's compression vest, and since I was there, pettipants and a sports bra. Placed an order to restock my gunpowder tea supplies from the same online store I used last time. Went down to the big shopping centre. In the supermarket-florist picked up a watering can and some spray bottles. Did not get a 24cm pot, annoyingly.
- attempted to refill psych meds but apparently I don't have any more repeats (fortunately I have some from Aus left and an appointment soon). Did fill my cantonally-issued 'in case of nuclear disaster take these' potassium tablets order.
- answered an email, and contacted MF for Advice on how to proceed with the thing about which I have been sending emails
- laundry
- arranged the small floor mats in the reading nook
- Another episode of Unwell. Less of The Mercies than i'd hoped, but some.
Several things on T'Internet At Large have been upsetting me, but ho hum, that's what the internet does.
You may note that sewing is not in this list. It ought to be, but didn't happen.
Done Saturday: I don't really remember the order of events, but it definitely included the following:
- reading a couple of articles in the summer Meanjin (my autumn issue went astray, and the re-send may possibly make it here before the winter one if i'm lucky)
- fussing with plants, including emergency repotting of the rosemary as they blew off their ledge in a rainstorm
- called parents, all is well there. Showed off my FURNITURE.
- pasta with a very minimal accompaniment of sautéed onions, tomato, feta and basil: mainly to have a reason to cut the basil back.
- placed an iHerb order for more spices, since apparently that's how I can get things like 'allspice' in switzerland.
- German lesson
- went for a wander in the rain in the evening to replenish supplies of wine and haribo. Found the service station I had done my first toilet-paper stocking at back in March - I WONDERED where that was. The walk was nice, the purchases unnecessary.
- Installed tinder and promptly deactivated in horror upon discovering that it is an app designed for you to swipe yea or nay based on /photographs/ without detailed bios. In fact I'm not even sure the people it was showing me when I asked it to show me women were interested in women? Because it didn't ask ME who my target audience is.
- Resumed listening to Unwell. Accidentally listened to several episodes i'd already listened to but this time in reverse order. If Magnus was working out for me because each episode is (or was, until recently) its own self-contained plot, Unwell seems to work for the opposite reason: it has a plot, but the plot is so slow that each individual episode might as well have only been lightly fragranced with eau de plot. Some spooky, but very little tension.
Done Sunday:
- Started reading 'The Mercies' for an online book club. Read sixty pages! That makes it the first fiction to actually hold my attention consistently for a very, very long time. It's reminding me of Burial Rites, in a very good way, although not QUITE as impeccable historically (or maybe it's that I know more about the early 17th century than I do the early 19th in northern Europe). It has already passed my personal 'sausage test', with a catching-killing-and-gutting of large seafish sequence.
- started writing a letter to Shiny, because if i send emails of random things I thought of and think they'd find interesting then they'll feel pressure to write proper responses.
- went for a run. Took a different route, found a patch of woodland on a not too steep hilltop with navigable paths. Am still repeating wk 3 of C25k. Considering ditching it for simply one-song-on-one-song-off intervals: as happened last time, the jump from wk 3 to 4 is Daunting.
- Playreading with
wildeabandon et al. Alan Bennet's Habeas Corpus, which was... definitely a play. That we read. Very rapid-fire farce. This is only my second encounter with Alan Bennet: do ALL his play's involve what would, in contemporary UK parlance, be called Safeguarding Issues? Is that just his Thing?- Another episode or two of Unwell.
Done Today:
- listened to half an episode of Carbone14 and then realised I don't know enough about Martinique to keep up.
- called Friend R in Scotland, who is as well as anyone who went into voluntary isolation when Italy shut down and isn't coming out any time soon can be.
- two pomos worth of reading on the RdR, discovered stuff that really SHOULD have been in my PhD, and am suspicious of the translator. But reading in the english first and THEN the french means this time i'm a. noticing the humour and b. not skimming over the stuff that is relevant to my final argument but wasn't relevant to what i THOUGHT i was doing in 2014.
- further progress on the EM stage violence book
- German class. I like the praeterite.
- Payday. Did assorted financial juggling. Found a medical bill I hadn't expected: turns out I get charged a lot extra if in my 'nod and smile' mode in the pharmacy I accidentally said yes I want the brand name med and not the generic.
- More shopping. Placed an Underworks order: one women's compression vest, and since I was there, pettipants and a sports bra. Placed an order to restock my gunpowder tea supplies from the same online store I used last time. Went down to the big shopping centre. In the supermarket-florist picked up a watering can and some spray bottles. Did not get a 24cm pot, annoyingly.
- attempted to refill psych meds but apparently I don't have any more repeats (fortunately I have some from Aus left and an appointment soon). Did fill my cantonally-issued 'in case of nuclear disaster take these' potassium tablets order.
- answered an email, and contacted MF for Advice on how to proceed with the thing about which I have been sending emails
- laundry
- arranged the small floor mats in the reading nook
- Another episode of Unwell. Less of The Mercies than i'd hoped, but some.
Several things on T'Internet At Large have been upsetting me, but ho hum, that's what the internet does.
You may note that sewing is not in this list. It ought to be, but didn't happen.