01. Lots more at the Comedy Festival this week – Tom Sainsbury, Daniel Foxx, Geraldine Hickey, and Chris Parker. You know when a comedian mentions something that you had completely forgotten and suddenly it’s hilarious? (that for SSR – Sustained Silent Reading – with Tom Sainsbury, and continuous cricket with Geraldine Hickey). All were fantastic but if you have a chance to see Daniel Foxx, grab it.
02.Watching: Drops of God S2 (Apple) – not quite as invested as I was in S1 but I’ll persevere.
03. Okay, this is completely random but I love (deeply) the instant citations (in whatever referencing style you are using) that are available on most online academic journal articles or databases. If I could have copy-and-pasted all my references when I was doing my studies in the nineties, I would have saved hundreds of hours…
04. Listened: to Australia’s Eurovision Top 100 countdown. I agree with the hosts’ plea for the return of stage props.
05. Eating: beef short ribs with plum hoisin sauce and beetroot pickled cabbage at Seamstress; and anchovy toast at Via Porta.
06. That excellent experience of finding a book that you have been busting to read on the ‘Most Wanted’ shelf at the library (meaning a one-week loan); having nothing on that evening; and sitting down to read the whole book in virtually one go.
07. Discovered the Tripit app (yes, I’m stupidly late to the party) and we’re using it to map bakeries for the forthcoming trip to Vienna.
08. The world is a shit-show right now, which is apparently why we loving – really, really loving – the pictures of Earth from Artemis II (image). I sure am.
Number three reminded me of watching my partner labouring over his PhD thesis and wondering what that would have been like before word processors.
I do think back to having to have my Year 12 final assessments typed (and labouring over the typrewriter!). By the time I did my masters thesis I had a word processor – basic, but saved oodles of time in comparison. And now it seems a breeze!
Thanks for pointing towards the Tripit app, I will probably use it for our Ireland trip.
I’m just using the free version which is perfectly fine for mapping the things we want to visit.
Thanks for Tripit, I have now saved it to use on our next trip too.
We’re having great fun with it (probably not using it to its full capacity in terms of adding train tickets, flights etc) but as a way of remembering various things we want to check out, it’s brilliant.
The little I’ve looked at so far is promising – now we just have to work out where we want to go next!