Sat my driving test today (passed!). I loved the test guy, an older man with big moustache. He refused all small talk and my efforts for us to be friends. Wouldn't say how his day was going. He sighed once at a red light but was otherwise an enigma. It was very freeing, somehow.
We are delighted to have a new James Brown book on the way. July! teherengawakapress.co.nz/slim-volume/
*crying* Please. Academics. 'The internet' is not a valid source description for your photos.
Just remembered an essay I have to write for an anthology, in less than a week. Good luck to my future self
Did a short poetry reading last night and it was fun and nice. But in her intro the lovely MC was like: ‘In these times we need poets to uplift and inspire us with their words’ and the poems I had prepared were about death and weed whacking and one was about a bad dream I had about green peas.
Significant milestone in my old-person-learning-to-drive journey: drove to the dump and got a new recycling bin
'It’s best to use digital tools to implement these structured task systems because they’re well suited for organizing and modifying large numbers of items grouped into levels and categories ...' I found this article insane www.newyorker.com/culture/offi...
Knowledge work is always changing, and our approach to it needs to change, too.
Breaking my social media silence to say that earlier I was just walking along carrying many boxes to the mailroom when I saw the work courier guy. He veered towards me and gave me and the boxes a friendly hug! Kind of baffling but nice. The old 'box effect', surely