It's Yom Kippur, which means literally everything in my country is shut down for 24 hours, including all forms of transport (including private cars), which means it's like enforced vacation from whatever your routine normally looks like.

So, a post!

Let's start with work.

( work things under the cut )

Tomorrow I start a new job!

I'm very excited, and glad that I don't have to be in the office at 9am on the first day (turns out my entire team will be gone tomorrow so I'll come in at 11 to do admin and in the afternoon supposedly someone will be free to start training me), which is so weird because at my old public sector job they couldn't pay you ( Read more... )

OK, this is the second post about the podcast, but it'll be the last one for about a month!

After an endless amount of dithering I've ~let go~ and posted the first episode of Pop Culture Sociologist.

You can listed to it at the link (as it seems DW doesn't allow embeds from Podbean) or on your favorite podcast app (Spotify, Apple, etc). The topic ( Read more... )

I'm going to try and talk about this with as little self deprecation and context about How Terrible My Life Choices Are as possible, so wish me luck!

So, I've wanted to be a media critic for basically most of my life, and I went from writing posts here in this journal about movies/tv shows/books/etc to being paid to do it for small magazines to ( Read more... )