last two days here

Finishing up work here, at least for a while. The first client I worked for with this mob has need of someone in support for a few weeks and everything was getting quiet. They might bring me back at some point, but I might get stuck on a longer term project at the original client - Part II: THE SEQUEL - of the project I first worked on.

But I shall be exchanging the 30-minute commute with easy hours, for a 70-minute commute with people working in the office from 7:30am until 6:30pm with nobody batting an eyelash...

There will be more commute time. This means there's a high probability of more writing if I can find a seat on the train (that can be a big 'if').

I will definitely miss getting home earlier.

links

Kate Harding: The fantasy of being Thin (2007)

Thoughts on 'thin'ness as an aspirational shorthand.


Suleika Snyder: Born To Be White: How Biracial Historical Heroes Reinforce The Status Quo (2018)


From Women and Alcohol: The Silent Addiction Killing A Generation of Australian Women

( thoughts on alcohol and the promotion of alcohol in women's lives )

recipes:
Brazilian Cheese Puffs
Marinated Skirt Steak

Quartzy: Why Men Are So Bad At Friendship: (hint: it’s not biology)

Democracy Journal: The liberal order isn't coming back, what next?

Why should we expect that a system established more than 70 years ago based on a particular distribution of power and array of threats should have the same effectiveness now?

Democracy Journal: Middle America Reboots Democracy:

At the current pace, it seems likely that the pop-up leaders and grassroots groups of 2017 will, by 2019, have repopulated the local layer of the Democratic Party in much of the country. National media misperceptions to the contrary, this will not look like a far-left reinvention of Tea Partiers or a continuation of Bernie 2016. It will look like retired librarians rolling their eyes at the present state of affairs, and then taking charge.

I have a slight cynicism about this: the local movement, so it's implied, is largely white suburban women, and I don't know how much of it is "see, white people can be for democracy without racism!!!!"


Population shock: world population statistics: I was looking up the world population back in the 1940s, and only just realised that between then and 1990 the population of the world DOUBLED. And at the rate we’re going, it’ll have doubled AGAIN by 2050.

...that's a lot of people.

slightly differently

Okay, so I'm bored af right now and have nothing to actually work on. My stuff is all either waiting to go in, or waiting for the various people testing my things to get back to me - and they are all three of them either sick or on leave.

Have asked to take the PM off, team leader offered me tomorrow off if I come in Monday. I said yes.

It's a little bit piecemeal and kind of weird - extra long early weekend, then Monday, then a day off, then new client.

Ah well. I'll have some time to contemplate, at least.

Still haven't asked for the payrise.