It was a pleasant sort of day, but felt like another day lost, largely because I was trying to draw a short comic and didn’t get anywhere. I’m in charge of the magazine’s social media this week and have no idea whatsoever what to post. I had one post on Middlemarch on Monday, then today […]
Over the hill
The GF had today off, and I had finished my work on Sunday, aside from the social media posts for the week. I finished up Monday’s lot and sent them off, and then got asked to look at the layout for a document I’d edited, and was appalled at the number of errors – it […]
Longing for lockdown
Sunday lockdown today, so it was all somewhat quieter, though certainly nothing to lockdown proper. I had a bit of work I’d saved up for today, which I didn’t actually manage to do until quite late at night as it was one of those days when nothing seemed right. So the GF went for a […]
A very long blink
The city has truly unfurled in the sun and with many lockdown restrictions gone. There is a different feel to the streets, it’s like there has been a very long blink, and what was before was Istanbul in September or October, and then there is now. There are many more people in the streets, there […]
Lax
I have been very lax indeed about updating this blog for the last week or more. A new leaf shall be turned, and I’ll catch up on June, without relying on frontpage fury posts. This is my mid-year resolution. I have also been lax about getting a haircut and doing my accounts, neither of which […]
A moderate success
The workshop is over, and it was a moderate success. The timing was very poorly managed, and my technical skills were not up to managing breakout rooms etc so that was a fiasco, but my bit of the presentation was ok, and I think most people appreciated the one-on-one discussions (other than the time issue). […]
Terrors ahead
I had a longish zoom meeting today about a workshop I had agreed to cohost on Friday, which now has me absolutely terrified. It’s going to be truly terrible, I think and I am overworked as it is. Well, at least I’m only responsible for a 20 minute slot in a 3 hour long session, […]
Back to the grind
Though it was Sunday I had a rather hardworking day, not that weekends mean much in pandemic life (or, truthfully, in my non-pandemic life). I felt a little better for most of the day, well enough to work but not so well as to stand or walk much, so finished some long-pending work, started on […]
Missing landlords past
This evening we got a message in Turkish on the WhatsApp group for our building – there was water leaking from our flat, it was urgent. We dashed over, and of course were completely incapable of understanding where the water was coming from, or of understanding the neighbour who reported it. Fortunately it was the […]
A struggle
I am finding work a struggle these days. It is certainly a cycle I go through every now and then, and it can be quite soul crushing. This was supposed to be a working weekend as I have some stuff due tomorrow and much to catch up on, but I managed almost nothing. Very frustrating […]