Awww. The last 10 minutes of Season 2 of Schitt’s Creek was lovely. I mean, I’m enjoying the series a whole lot but I like how it ended. However, if Stevie and David fall out. I WILL NOT BE HAPPY.
Awww. The last 10 minutes of Season 2 of Schitt’s Creek was lovely. I mean, I’m enjoying the series a whole lot but I like how it ended. However, if Stevie and David fall out. I WILL NOT BE HAPPY.
Covid19 has meant a lot of changes at our school.
Some teachers went away at Chinese New Year at the end of January and have yet to return. They are still working online, while the school has been open for going on 5(?) weeks now.
Some teachers have been let go for the next academic year as student numbers fall. Some teachers won’t return at all and their things are being packed up by other teachers in China. Next year our campus will be very different.
Some students are in a similar position and continue WFH. We do ‘Zooms’ with some of them but it’s hard when we’re in China and they are in Korea, Japan, Europe and North America.
With China’s borders still closed, there’s a real possibility they won’t be able to return before the start of the next academic year.
Elise presses buttons, Yumo wants to join in, I put it online regardless.
Elise talks about pizza and Yumo lays down a backing track.
Our team is a little more on top of things today. And as a result, have a little more time to talk (not just about work!), to work things out, to work on things. To give things a little more of my time. To have a little more focus, less rushed.
How nice that feels!
Last night was the first night this week I didn’t work at home (after going to work). Woke up this morning not feeling 100%. Like my body was was like, “Oh, we’re stopping. Cool cool cool. "
In no particular order:
My gen 1 AirPods case has stopped charging. Which is annoying and frustrating but probably should not be surprising. The trade off is these things don’t last do they.
Trying hard to, ‘be the change.' Last week was rough because everything was getting to me. Today, even though the youngest was crying at 1am and there’s too much work to do. I’m a trying to focus on the important stuff.
Today in China…
L has turned her hand to macarons recently… These are the second batch. They’re so good.
Elise talks about her new toy
Reasons I update things on my phone: (in order of priority)
Elise talks a little about dinosaurs.
A morning routine Darling children all around Everyday a storm
Having small children awake from 5:30 when work is stressful is the worst way to do a morning routine.
We were watching the Matthew Mconnughey and Anne Hathaway film Serenity last night and the best bit was realising some of it is filmed 5 minutes walk from my parents house! If that means nothing to you, save yourself and don’t watch it. It’s not great.
This site said we were 439m on the 69th floor. Now, most of the time I take things for granted. Planes can fly thousand of feet in the air, there’s people on the International Space Station, I can send messages in the blink of an eye - my dad tells me when he first moved to the UK he had to schedule a long distance phone call, and it’s all normal.
But last night, as we sat there I felt a little nervous. Not sure why now. Being so high up in this man made structure.
Hole - Violet
I listened to it again recently after discovering it on an old hard drive. It takes me back to my teens and Napster, Freeserve, the sounds of dial up, logging on to just check my email.
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A night away with Lyra and without the kids. Almost didn’t get in. A nice view from the window. Air con. I just had a Twister. Nice to have a little space. To clear our heads a little.
Bought a new book today, Lyra asked me if I’d finished my other books. I have not. See number 2 on this listby Austin Kleon
“Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth.” – George Washington
I’m think about this in terms of the friends I have that I’ve know __ forever__ and those who are heading that way. Especially as, living in a non-English speaking (or at least not your native language) country can make it hard to make friends.
A friend mentioned Schitt’s Creek in passing and I’m slowing working through first season. I’m tolerating the ‘oh these local people’ stuff because the conversations between Stevie and David are incredible.
Following straight on from the last episode. Lyra learns what scruffy means.
Elise gives her brother a new name.