After a very hot first half of the month, May has settled into surprisingly pleasant weather here in Pune – I don’t know if I can fully trust this weather, since our “summer” has had two weeks of daily rain. We might be about to have a strange mixed monsoon/late summer that we’ll encounter in a few weeks. Climate change!
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness
The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation
It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well.
Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m diligent about continuing my physiotherapy-mandated exercises. It took me a few months, but I realised that my pain resurges precisely when I stop doing these, so I can’t be complacent just yet. But I’m back to actually typing these on the computer rather than dictating them or typing them on the phone.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May
I’ve decided to start calling these “weeknotes”, since the term makes a lot more sense, especially if I want to do shorter daily updates.
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Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March
I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews.
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Dune Part 2
K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one.
It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the first one.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages
I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my blog in that time either (as I had intended).
There’s a simple reason for that – I’ve been going through stuff. For three weeks, I was busier than I’ve been in a good while, partly because work just lined up that way, partly because back pain slowed me down, and because sometimes you just have more work to do.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives
Butter Docs (or, New writing apps don’t work so great)
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E-book reissue of Forgotten Lives
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation
Reorganisation
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Books: The Giggle
Films: Fallen Leaves, Fargo, Bottoms, The Silence of the Lambs
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 01: Part 1 – Best of 2023
First newsletter of 2024! I’m back home in Pune, settling in. We got back home early on the 5th, which turned out to be Friday, so I don’t have to officially start the year till Monday.
Since I have that breathing space, I wanted to reflect on the coming year before it properly begins.
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