As predicted last month, there were huge breaks to the usual rhythm this month. My step-mum finally moved house, so there was that adventure followed quickly of the adventure of unpacking, which still isn’t complete. Still, the stress of unpacking is nowhere near as much as the stress of house-selling, […]
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The month had its ups and downs. The downs are fairly mundane and not really worth sharing. Some good highlights include: my step-mum has been trying to move house for almost a year and it has finally gone through after a really bumpy exchange, I worked on a collaboration between […]
This time of year cheers me up when it stays dry. The longer days, but also the colour. I find it fascinating how it literally changes from one day to the next. This time last year was professionally uncertain. This year it is personally uncertain, but generally I think the […]
It was a mad March. Lots of stress at the beginning of the month as my students got through 12 short films in just over 2 days. That was exciting but also overwhelming, especially as it involved set building and some other logistical challenges. They performed well though, so I […]
A strange month. I am still getting used to a new work regimen, because of returning to full time academia but also a 15 month postgraduate calendar rather than a 12 month undergraduate one. I would normally be at the start of a new semester at this point rather than […]
My 900th blog post. Officially a lot of shite, spanning over twenty years of creative projects. I think blogging went out of fashion twenty years ago, so it’s a hopeless endeavour with little purpose. I consider it an example of sunken cost fallacy, but I still prefer it to the […]
Where were we? Last November I mentioned that I was unsure of the way forward after collecting 70 draft ideas in GarageBand. I then spent about a month stitching various ideas and ditties together into 13 tracks. I think 11 will be on the main part of the album and […]
I’m determined not to discuss the weather, because it is so stereotypically British. Just gonna say that I am sick of the mono-cloud wetness that lasts for weeks. Let’s make a distinction between talking about weather and climate. At the moment, the climate is so hideously bad that the infrastructure […]
It was 2019 when I last went to Les Contamines. One year later it was one of the first places that the Covid outbreak arrived in Europe. I wasn’t sure if I would get an opportunity to go back. I wasn’t sure if I was still capable of skiing having […]