Pandemic day 112
Jul. 6th, 2020 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricWell, I'm still not winning at attention span, but I got a number of smallish things done today!
Work:
- sent out the sign up form for study day.
- some work on the phd book
- some more re-reading of Patience Agbabi's Tales
- library mission, checked the non-existent mail in the office
- figured out the geneva libraries are open again, shortlisted books to obtain
I did not succeed in joining the library of Exact Sciences, since it turns out they only have their service desk open in the mornings. Next week I shall attempt that, and possibly also a mission to Basel.
The reading was done drinking café freddo outside Tibits. Worse things have happened to me, that's for sure.
Household:
- Went to Migros and Migros DoIt+Garden seeking garden frogs (uh... they're plastic water reservoirs with clay spikes, and the reservoir is shaped like a frog). Didn't find them in Migros, and got so distracted in the garden store i forgot about them.
- Did purchase a jug with owls on it, a fly-net for picnics (also with owls), and a different kind of fly trap in Migros
- In the garden store, obtained: a decorative pot to hold the pot that's on the back table, so it stops spilling out of its tray onto the wood; what I THOUGHT was a 40cm planter but turns out to be an outer pot you hide smaller pots in; another planter pot same size as the table one; a pot of daisies; another pot of basil; a smaller screwdriver; a 'Christmas Tree' aka triple adaptor.
Admin:
- More email to the psych assessment service sent.
- flagged up holiday plan to MF
- posted the spare binder to the queer charity in Lausanne. Got told off for addressing the envelope wrong: turns out in Switzerland they don't take the BIGGEST or CENTREMOST address, but the bottom one, and I had put the return address bottom right because I didn't quite leave enough space top left.
- took blue suit in for dry cleaning. Discovered I can't spell my name in German. (I was not winning at transactions today, as you can see. Both Migros purchases involved an item that had no price sticker or a faulty sticker on. At least I managed to buy coffee.)
House:
- Was still feeling energetic this evening, so I set up the bigger plant stand. As usual, I cannot screw screws properly - in this case, it SHOULD be easy to screw screws through pre-drilled holes in metal, but, er, no. Not happening. Nevertheless the main structural bits are sound (they winched up with an alan key) and the rest is more or less together. I then discovered the shelves are too narrow to take a lot of pots - the rectangular 'outer pot that hides other pots' just fits, but it's decorative base doesn't. Only small round pots fit. Also, I need to find some things to put on the bottom shelves to weigh it down, but what? That spot is not going to get much light.
- Laundry happened. I STILL can't work Washing Machine 2. I think it hates me.
- I have a letter from the régie about the smart home system, but I don't fully understand it and google translate doesn't help because the words i don't understand are stupid words like 'Multitaster' (multibutton?). I have a number of things that could refer to, I do not know which is which. I shall have to email or call and ask.
Work:
- sent out the sign up form for study day.
- some work on the phd book
- some more re-reading of Patience Agbabi's Tales
- library mission, checked the non-existent mail in the office
- figured out the geneva libraries are open again, shortlisted books to obtain
I did not succeed in joining the library of Exact Sciences, since it turns out they only have their service desk open in the mornings. Next week I shall attempt that, and possibly also a mission to Basel.
The reading was done drinking café freddo outside Tibits. Worse things have happened to me, that's for sure.
Household:
- Went to Migros and Migros DoIt+Garden seeking garden frogs (uh... they're plastic water reservoirs with clay spikes, and the reservoir is shaped like a frog). Didn't find them in Migros, and got so distracted in the garden store i forgot about them.
- Did purchase a jug with owls on it, a fly-net for picnics (also with owls), and a different kind of fly trap in Migros
- In the garden store, obtained: a decorative pot to hold the pot that's on the back table, so it stops spilling out of its tray onto the wood; what I THOUGHT was a 40cm planter but turns out to be an outer pot you hide smaller pots in; another planter pot same size as the table one; a pot of daisies; another pot of basil; a smaller screwdriver; a 'Christmas Tree' aka triple adaptor.
Admin:
- More email to the psych assessment service sent.
- flagged up holiday plan to MF
- posted the spare binder to the queer charity in Lausanne. Got told off for addressing the envelope wrong: turns out in Switzerland they don't take the BIGGEST or CENTREMOST address, but the bottom one, and I had put the return address bottom right because I didn't quite leave enough space top left.
- took blue suit in for dry cleaning. Discovered I can't spell my name in German. (I was not winning at transactions today, as you can see. Both Migros purchases involved an item that had no price sticker or a faulty sticker on. At least I managed to buy coffee.)
House:
- Was still feeling energetic this evening, so I set up the bigger plant stand. As usual, I cannot screw screws properly - in this case, it SHOULD be easy to screw screws through pre-drilled holes in metal, but, er, no. Not happening. Nevertheless the main structural bits are sound (they winched up with an alan key) and the rest is more or less together. I then discovered the shelves are too narrow to take a lot of pots - the rectangular 'outer pot that hides other pots' just fits, but it's decorative base doesn't. Only small round pots fit. Also, I need to find some things to put on the bottom shelves to weigh it down, but what? That spot is not going to get much light.
- Laundry happened. I STILL can't work Washing Machine 2. I think it hates me.
- I have a letter from the régie about the smart home system, but I don't fully understand it and google translate doesn't help because the words i don't understand are stupid words like 'Multitaster' (multibutton?). I have a number of things that could refer to, I do not know which is which. I shall have to email or call and ask.