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Tag: weeknotes

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from Minor Heat

    xiǎo shǔ 小暑 I’m still a bit emotionally fragile after England losing Wednesday night. I got drunk and had a little cry in my Travelodge. I think I’m lucky I had all these reserves of positivity from my wonderful summer so far that prevented me from spiralling too badly. I’ve been really enjoying all the hot…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from Summer Solstice 夏至

    It has been a pretty hectic couple of weeks — to say the least. I haven’t actually been home and slept in my own bed for three weeks at this point. I am starting to fray around the edges and look pretty (very) rough. It has been worth it though — I remain in an unusually positive place. I…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from Lesser Ripening

    Honestly this tweet pretty much sums up my week: It is only an interim position so I don’t want to get carried away but it really does feel good to be back in the game. It feels like I’ve been out of it forever. I suffered from a bit of a ‘failure to launch’ at…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from ‘Grain Rain’ (Guyu)

    Things are still a bit unsettled at work to be honest. The fall out from the less than successful project has dominated this week — which was actually unexpected as I thought we were over the hump with it. Tiring. I am learning a lot but honestly I think ignorance was probably bliss on this occasion. What…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from ‘Clear and Bright’ (Qīngmíng)

    Safe to say spring has sprung eh? Hope everybody enjoyed the sun (it’ll probably be raining again by the time I hit publish on this!*) It has been a bit of a rollercoaster couple of weeks it has to be said. Like one of those old, wooden rollercoasters that bang you around a bit in…