Faffing about

Hi all. Brendan and I have been faffing about as usual. I did get a little bit worried last week about the job market and all, but that's so far away I think I'm better off just chilling for now. I hope everyone's doing alright! I did a survey over the weekend for a study being conducted by Oxford, U of Amsterdam and Coventry U because they needed more Australian respondents. It's a questionnaire about how people are dealing with covid19 and includes questions like 'since covid-19/lockdown I've stopped caring about my appearance'. I actually quite liked some of the questions. It asked how long I've been isolating for/in lockdown and it's been 38 days now!

I too, have been playing a lot of overcooked and almost got tempted to get Animal Crossing (realistically, I don't think I'd actually have enough time to play, between that and masterchef. 😱maybe I should build the masterchef kitchen in Animal Crossing!).

My recent faffing around has included:

• finally getting round to wrapping my head around HILDA data
• watching Hilda (lel) on netflix (is Trolberg a city for trolls?)
• watching Aggretsuko on netflix (Brendan also really likes it). It is a sanrio satire of office life and includes such caricatures as the chauvinistic boss, the suck-up, the office gossip etc.
• watching The English Game on netflix. At first I laughed because a period sports drama is probably the perfect crossover of Brendan and my tastes, but then we realised there wasn't much soccer to it. Anyway, a good show if you're after some Julian-Fellowes-wholesome-class-struggle (i.e. class appropriation) with some feel-good character development.
• changing my earrings for the first time ever! It was a bit daunting, one of them went right in, the other was a bit of a struggle and I got a bit stressed but I got there eventually.
• being asked by someone to form an assignment group and turning them down because I want to do it on my own (idk, this might bite me later).
• aggressively using my planner (now that I'm at home all day and actually have time to write a million to-do lists that aren't work-related), and decorating it with all those fancy stickers I have from an old, old sticker collection
• actually hand-writing diary entries in an old diary that I had barely used
• considering whether or not I should write some good ol' HP fanfic
• trying to dress up as a character from little women using the skirts, shawls and shirts found among my old clothes (Brendan actually thought the end result was ok!)
• singing Hairspray songs really loudly (Without Love)