Weeknotes - 2025-W11
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This week was a rather long one too. Lots of work to get done for work, and lots of work to get done for the course too.
About 3 out of the 5 working days, I sat down with the GCPP squad, trying to figure the bits that needed figuring for the upcoming policy workshop. It is wonderful to work with a team that is so diverse and varied in their experience and interests. They’re all fun people!
The submission didn’t go as planned, though. I think there was a gross mismatch of expectations. It bummed me out, bad. But we persevere.
Went on a wonderful date night with Prasanna, to Bask which I hadn’t tried before. The peanut butter thickshake there is amazing and so is their hummus bowl. The pizza wasn’t that much of a kicker for me though - something in it tasted of coconut-y and that just doesn’t sit well with Pizza (for me). But it has a wonderful setting and great staff. Recommend!
Sunday was slow, I slept a lot - catching up on sleep from the week (whatever that means, IIRC its not fully possible to “catch up” on missed sleep). Prasanna and I started watching Reacher which seems to be really good. Glad to pick something up to watch after a while.
Picked up some catnip for the kittehs so its going to be a drugs and rock and roll kind of night for them 😁
I’ve also started reading (read: listening) to The Time Traveller’s Wife on a dear friend’s recommendation. It is such a wonderful book. I love how the author has explored time travel and romance in such a beautiful way. I’m only about 29% of the way in, but I really look forward to finishing this. It definitely it one of the longer books that I’ve started. I think that’s why I hadn’t started this, despite picking it up many months ago.
Also, I tried listening to Orbital but abandoned it. It felt soooo unreadable. I couldn’t follow along and just found the prose too dense. I read a lot of dense prose for work (and for GCPP) and I definitely don’t want my leisure reading to also be difficult. Life is too short for books that don’t sit with my psyche. So, sorry but not sorry, Samantha Harvey. I tried.
I’m really having mixed feelings about the upcoming week. 2 dear dear friends are coming down to visit and we’re really looking forward to that. My birthday is coming up, and its the first one without my FIL. Just last year, he cooked a sweet for my birthday and made a video for me. This year, he’s not there. And I’ll be ending the week meeting my best friends first and then meeting all my batchmates that I’ve only seen as rectangles, at the policy workshop.
How much more surreal can life get? The earth, 1 year ago on the same day as my birthday continuing its rotation around the sun, came back to the same place in space, but to a different place in time, a time that doesn’t have my FIL in it. Death is such a great teacher and death is a horrible teacher.