Week 1/2024 (part 2): Annual review
Week of 1 January 2024 Annual review: The week after the in-between week I was meant to go back to work this week. To clarify, I was supposed to have last week off, a public holiday on Monday, another day off on Tuesday, and go back to work on...
Week 39/2022: Minimising overwhelm
Week of 26 September 2022 Minimising overwhelm Monday was my first day in the office for a very long time. There were a few reasons for me not having gone back before now, some of which involve other people, and it all started to get complicated. But there’s a...
20 for 2020: week 32
Week of 3 August My 20 for 2020 list. We got the reading material for our final unit of the uni course (thing 8) on Monday. I spent a couple of hours organising the material and making a study plan so I know what I need to do over...
Book 6/24: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
I’ll start this post with a confession: I’ve never read any of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels, although I’ve long been intrigued by titles like The Poisonwood Bible and Pigs In Heaven. I first saw this book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life on Instagram, where one of my...
P365 – Day 217 (5/8/2011) – dear family assistance office . . .
. . . why are your forms and procedures so complicated? I know some of the work I do has proven to be difficult to understand for some of the people who we deal with. But even being an expert at ‘bureaucratese’, I have trouble understanding what you are...
P365 – Day 140 red awnings
If you’ve been into Central Hobart lately, you’re probably aware of the saga of the red awnings. The owners of the building that was formerly the Hobart Savings Bank at 26 Murray Street recently erected the awnings, but didn’t get permission from the local Council or the Tasmanian Heritage...