Week 129: ¯ (ツ)_/¯
February 20, 2021
- Lads, a lot of things happened this week. I feel a bit dizzy.
- More reckons on framing Britney: Wow how absolutely horrible we all were to young famous (and not famous presumably) women in the 00s. I think we’re… better now? are we? Is that naive? Also - what has “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” guy got to say about all this? has anyone asked him? Oh yes, here’s what he reckons.
- I listened to the first episode of “Sentimental in the City” - A SATC podcast with the very pleasant voiced and erudite Dolly Alderton and Caroline O’Donoghue. It was funny and despite being two hours long (!) I listened to it all in one go.
- Baby C has this cute little wonky commando crawl he does now and it’s extremely adorable.
- When I was a teenager, I thought “going commando” meant “wearing camouflage print underpants”.
- I had a really great chat with Rebecca this week. She has a very good webcam and it really made a difference to how talking to her felt. I think I’m going to get a good webcam and make my WFH set up really noice too.
- I got the job I had an interview for 2 weeks ago! It’s a seven month post as Tech Director for Customer Products covering for shared parental leave. Tech Director is an entirely different job to Principal Engineer, one I might fundamentally not enjoy, so I’m glad I get to try it without the full commitment of having the job long term.
- I watched a lot of Married at First Sight Australia this week after several people told me it’s good. It’s terrible of course but well executed.
- I got quite an alarming email on Wednesday to say I’m now on the updated “clinically vulnerable” list for covid-19. That came as a shock because apart from getting gestational diabetes with my first pregnancy there is nothing clinically interesting about me. I was left wondering if the new model was shonky, there was a mistake in my medical records, or maybe I genuinely am extra vulnerable? Of course, I phoned my GP and they were like ¯/_(ツ)_/¯
- Anyway, it does mean I can be vaccinated next week. So we’re doing that.
- I think we’re very close to getting an exchange and completion date for our house, it’s going to mean that in the same three week stretch I’ll
- Move family to a new city
- Return from shared parental leave
- Start a new job
- 🎢