weirdly, no wait at all in Glasgow! Idk, V might like it - I've a vague recollection of you watching people stream themselves playing computer games at one point? (Am I imagining this/was it someone else 🤔)
I was the same but devoured them all earlier this year and pre-ordered the next one (which I never do)!
Precisely!
Not going to Australia bc of war: 😞
Getting a full refund on my flight and travel insurance: 😀
Half my laptop keyboard breaking mid job app (currently have a USB keyboard plugged in which is as awkward as you imagine), but the flight refund money arrived the same day so I can replace it now: 🙃
In summary: argh; I’m tired of being an adult; will the world ever stop being on fire in my adult lifetime; etc.
I have to make a decision about work & I want to survey everyone in my life about what to do tho I know only I can make the decision (there is no right answer, & even if I did survey everyone they’d bring all their own stuff about risk + money + achievement to the table which wouldn’t help me).
I hate to be cold all the time in the winter but I do love to wear a big jumper and I extra extra love that ‘radiators just came on for the first time’ smell! Glasgow never really commits to summer though so I’ll still get to be intermittently cold 🙃
Once again the first warm day of the year has come and I have forgotten how to put on any clothes that aren’t ’big jumper’ after 6 months of cold, so have tried on half my wardrobe and given up 🙃
Addendum: a pretty girl at the gym just told me I was ‘so strong’ after watching me do 105kg deadlifts and I guess that wouldn’t happen for a feral wood witch, so it’s pretty tough to choose.
Increasingly I think I want to go and live in the woods, just go fully feral solitary witch. Will it be good for my mental health? Probably not, overall, but the yearning remains.
This is so, so well-articulated.
I am in no position to move currently but I cannot tell you how much I wish to move to this flat with a TURRET www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
I keep thinking about this and how much spending time in Gaza in 2024 really changed my visceral understanding of what war MEANS.
This is an excellent article about the value and purpose of genre fiction *and* it also neatly summarises how literary fiction works and what it doesn't address.
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.
This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."
"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Months of no success with job apps, all of a sudden 2x interviews on the same day on opposite sides of the country 🙃 I’ve asked for one to be moved but if they can’t move it I will have to pick between them & then possibly not even get the one I do pick ahahahaharrggh
Going out for dinner but I don’t need to leave just yet. I don’t have anything that fills this weird gap of time, so I’m just standing & toasting myself on the biggest radiator in the flat.
(sea monster bio)
You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic
Genuinely think the opt out is good & that generally the world is much better at recognising we don’t all have mothers/fathers/loved ones/whatever to celebrate than when I was made to make a Mother’s Day card as a child less than a year after my mum died 🙃🙃🙃 but pls make the opt outs actually work.
Ah, the time of year when marketers send a ‘would you like to opt out of Mother’s Day emails?’ email that in itself reminds me Mother’s Day exists and that then usually doesn’t actually result in me being opted out of said emails 🙃🙃🙃
In my occasional series titled Things You Didn't Know about Sikhs, pretty much all the parmesan you get from Italy is made by Sikhs...
Five working weeks into 2026 and I have most of an application done for a job that would be a 25% pay cut because I simply will not survive where I am 🙃🙃🙃
Idly looking up the notable alumni of the secondary school my nephew is going to next year and…oh dear. As if I didn’t already think a private all-boys school wasn’t a great shout.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
Ooooh very excited bc I might go to Australia this year (having vowed to cool it on the big holidays after South Korea in 2024 and Canada last year, so I think we can all agree I am v good at keeping vows).
I wore a (nice) bit of jewellery that my (not nice) ex gave me for the whole weekend, thinking enough time had passed to cleanse it - and then I had horrid dreams about all the vile things said ex did last night. Can you sage jewellery? How do I remove these bad vibes?
Finished Love Forms by Claire Adam last night in a race against the library due date clock, and loved it - strong recommend. Now to read my book club book before book club on Sunday…apparently I require a deadline to focus.
North Wales Live 31 Dec 2025 • • • Follow ... Sheep stuck on cliff rescued by mountain rescuers Image shows sheep stuck up a cliff. They have their faces covered by grey blobs.
Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.
O no
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again