Omar

Elise shares her thoughts on Despicable Me.

Elise talks about Paw Patrol and sings the theme in English and Chinese.

Elise presses the button to start recording. Elise talks a little about school and why she hasn’t been going. Yumo says hi too!

After reading about @Chet’s podcast with his children, I kind of liked that idea. Then I listened to introduction to microcasting by @macgenie, briefly searched for microphones online, realised that for this month there’s free microcasting and decided I would chat to Elise today.

Which is what we did. We talked a little, unplanned at the moment and this is the result… We’ll see what happens next!

Heavily influenced by my late teens/early 20s listening habits, 3 of the albums are 14 years old or older. Also, I think because these albums hold such strong memories. I remember holding the cassette of the Placebo album. Two of the albums are connected to some pretty strong memories around my mental health too. As such are reminders of getting through and coping.

Maybe as well it’s that I don’t tend to listen to whole albums as much anymore.

Slight regret at yesterday’s beers but feeling like I’m starting to bounce back a little.

Dug up my old last.fm account and listening to some tracks from 2015. Currently Meg Myers - Monster off her Daughter in the choir EP. There’s an awful lot the same though…

Reminds me that my sister said, I listened to this one track on repeat recently - like you do. I mean I do, but hadn’t realised anyone had noticed.

Also, someone has asked me to name 4 albums I can listen all the way through without skipping. Still thinking about it.

This restaurant is one of my favourites. It’s called 西贝(xī bèi) and is Mongolian style food. Lots of big joints, literally, of meat. We cold noodles in a spicy (only a little by local standards), spicy lamb kidneys and pork with sauerkraut and potatoes. The noodles in particular are amazing, they have a sort of spongy tofu in and the sauce is to die for.

Had a few beers with a few friends in the afternoon and then a few more over dinner with a few more friends. It was nice to be talking to people in-real-life. I’ve missed that.

As well, it made me appreciate the connections to people that just aren’t the same online. Which I say as someone who would previously avoid too many interactions, particularly with people who weren’t ‘my people’.

Lots I associate with in this piece entitled Parents are not ok by Chloe I. Cooney. Two bits that jumped out at me.

This is hard.

I thought by the fourth week of social distancing we would have all settled into the new norm a bit. But for my family (and others I’ve spoken to) that is not the case — things are harder than they were at the beginning. Harder because we’ve all accrued anxiety, stress, and sadness over this period.

And

This current situation is almost prophetically designed to showcase the farce of our societal approach to separating work and family lives. We are expected to work from home full time. And care for our children full time.