I discovered/invented/reinvented a time management tool (it's quite likely it already exists, but it was new to me).

Last week I felt I had too many tasks to keep track of, so I made a simple Excel sheet showing the tasks and their start dates and deadlines:


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I posted in April that we were quite enjoying the lockdown, and homeschooling was going better than I expected ( Read more... )

(Content note: This is about how the lockdown is going well for me. I know it's not going well for a lot of people. Maybe don't read on if it's not going well for you and it would distress you to read about how it's going well for me.)

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(which is freelance proofreading, mainly of textbooks)

* It's so nice to be doing something regularly that I feel competent at, and like I'm making a positive difference ( Read more... )

I have decided not to go back to work after maternity leave, and to look after Bethany full-time ( Read more... )

I recently played an adventure game in which you play character A and have to lock character B in a room, and then in the next chapter you play character B and have to escape. It was a slightly unsettling shift in perspective: I'd been playing character A and identifying with her, and agreed with her that character B needed to be locked up because ( Read more... )