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rosa_heartlily) wrote2024-10-07 09:22 pm
rosa_heartlily) wrote2024-10-07 09:22 pm
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A different kind of Monday
I'm starting a new weekly evening thing tomorrow, so I switched today to be my in-office day and tomorrow will be my at-home day. I think a good chunk of Liverpool must WFH on Monday's because the roads were sooo quiet!
When I was getting ready this morning my Lush Argan bar decided to throw itself into the toilet... So I had to pop into Lush on the way home. Not that this is a bad thing. I love that shop so much! But if I hadn't been in the office today, it would have been a bit trickier.
There was also a march in support of Palestine on the anniversary of the Hamas bombing. Was that appropriate? I mean, it was Palestinians who committed the bombing and killed over 1000 people - but far more Palestinians have been killed since. And now Israel seems intent on starting an all-out war with Lebanon. Do they expect support from the USA? Will they get it? I read an article from Open Democracy today that talked about how hatreds become entrenched and it becomes almost impossible for one 'side' to understand the pain of the other. I continue to pray for the day we can live together in peace. Which connects to what I was saying yesterday.
My calendar for this week started out with zero white space - like every moment of every day was already full! Not all with meetings, I hasten to add - I use my calendar as my 'to do' list. But I was feeling exhausted just looking at it. Then I realised that the person I'd booked a 'catch up' with for this morning hadn't accepted and they didn't respond to my Teams chat, so I decided to just move it out to next week. Then another meeting got moved to tomorrow - not great from tomorrow's POV, but it gave me some breathing space this afternoon. So I pretty much got on top of everything without being worn out.
Next week, on the other hand, looks like a snowfield!
I also discovered that there are people in the world who know nothing about Fight Club. A colleague said they were going to 'Flower Club' tonight and I asked, 'What's the first rule of Flower Club?'. 'I don't know anything about it,' came the reply. *facepalm* Every other person (there were about 5 or 6 altogether) laughed, though. I thought Fight Club was at least large enough in the collective public consciousness that someone would get the reference even without seeing the film. And I reflected with my chat buddy about how I had a little chuckle to myself when I met Durden the Taylor in W3.
I watched Fuzz's penultimate episode of Rebirth. I'll try to get to the finale tomorrow. They've switched stuff around, of course, but it all makes sense. The flashbacks were interesting - filling in some of the blanks without having to 'live' them. I wonder if Sephiroth's solution to the multiverse is more Umbrella Academy or Ultimecia? :D I'm still wary of playing the actual game, though.
Then tonight I sat with the boys to watch the last two episodes of the NZ Traitors. I think they've been the nicest bunch so far and I genuinely didn't mind who won. The final challenge was a bit more unusual, too. Then we watched the latest episode of Only Connect and husband found one of the categories on one of the walls. It's the kind of quiz that has you scratching your head over what turn out to be quite simple clues, or staring in complete bafflement even when the answer is explained - or makes you feel like a genius because you see the answer right away.
That's all for tonight. Aiming for another good sleep.
When I was getting ready this morning my Lush Argan bar decided to throw itself into the toilet... So I had to pop into Lush on the way home. Not that this is a bad thing. I love that shop so much! But if I hadn't been in the office today, it would have been a bit trickier.
There was also a march in support of Palestine on the anniversary of the Hamas bombing. Was that appropriate? I mean, it was Palestinians who committed the bombing and killed over 1000 people - but far more Palestinians have been killed since. And now Israel seems intent on starting an all-out war with Lebanon. Do they expect support from the USA? Will they get it? I read an article from Open Democracy today that talked about how hatreds become entrenched and it becomes almost impossible for one 'side' to understand the pain of the other. I continue to pray for the day we can live together in peace. Which connects to what I was saying yesterday.
My calendar for this week started out with zero white space - like every moment of every day was already full! Not all with meetings, I hasten to add - I use my calendar as my 'to do' list. But I was feeling exhausted just looking at it. Then I realised that the person I'd booked a 'catch up' with for this morning hadn't accepted and they didn't respond to my Teams chat, so I decided to just move it out to next week. Then another meeting got moved to tomorrow - not great from tomorrow's POV, but it gave me some breathing space this afternoon. So I pretty much got on top of everything without being worn out.
Next week, on the other hand, looks like a snowfield!
I also discovered that there are people in the world who know nothing about Fight Club. A colleague said they were going to 'Flower Club' tonight and I asked, 'What's the first rule of Flower Club?'. 'I don't know anything about it,' came the reply. *facepalm* Every other person (there were about 5 or 6 altogether) laughed, though. I thought Fight Club was at least large enough in the collective public consciousness that someone would get the reference even without seeing the film. And I reflected with my chat buddy about how I had a little chuckle to myself when I met Durden the Taylor in W3.
I watched Fuzz's penultimate episode of Rebirth. I'll try to get to the finale tomorrow. They've switched stuff around, of course, but it all makes sense. The flashbacks were interesting - filling in some of the blanks without having to 'live' them. I wonder if Sephiroth's solution to the multiverse is more Umbrella Academy or Ultimecia? :D I'm still wary of playing the actual game, though.
Then tonight I sat with the boys to watch the last two episodes of the NZ Traitors. I think they've been the nicest bunch so far and I genuinely didn't mind who won. The final challenge was a bit more unusual, too. Then we watched the latest episode of Only Connect and husband found one of the categories on one of the walls. It's the kind of quiz that has you scratching your head over what turn out to be quite simple clues, or staring in complete bafflement even when the answer is explained - or makes you feel like a genius because you see the answer right away.
That's all for tonight. Aiming for another good sleep.
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in re support of Palestine - I think it's hard because there is a distinct difference between the people who did the attacking, and the people who are dying as a result. I would obviously prefer no political violence of any kind, but I think it's important to differentiate Hamas from the average Palestinian, just as I think it was and is important to remember that not all of Afghanistan is the Taliban, you know? And there's also the fact that both Hamas and the current government of Israel have specifically chosen to strike civilians, but many of those civilians just wanted to live their quiet civilian lives (obviously there will be some cheering on the violence for an assortment of reasons, but.)
There's also a lot of frankly horrid racism and religious discrimination going into a lot of attitudes around it (I do not mean yours), and so to me it's like. I would like to support the right of both Israelis and Palestinians to not be murdered going about their daily lives and I would like to make a bright and clear distinction between Hamas and Netanyahu's bullshit and the lives of ordinary people, and have significantly stronger words about the former.....but I am sickened by, and sick of, the antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism being deployed in too many directions.
In other words, please, please, I am begging the universe and any gods that might be listening, make this stop in a way that is as equitable and fair to all sides as it can be.
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I've read since that the current US government is continuing to support Israel with weapons - but it's OK, they've promised to only hit military targets in Iran.
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It's so disheartening, and I really REALLY wish the US would cut back to only defensive tech. I can't say stop supplying altogether because I know what the outcome would be and it's even more horrific than the current, but.....surely there is a better way that smarter people than I can figure out.