Reading novels instead of news.
I’ve had a moment of clarity about just how much time I was spending on news apps. Because I cut myself off after the US election, I suddenly found myself with hours to fill every day.
Yep. Hours.
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Finished Continuum.
I finally wrapped up my three-month-long watch of Continuum on Amazon over the weekend. (And immediately plated up the BBC’s last Day of the Triffids adaptation for fun).
Duck!
Yesterday, I fired up the Big Green Egg and decided to tackle cooking a whole duck. Until now, I’d never cooked one myself. Usually, we grab a roasted duck from Chinatown and have them carve it for us to make this duck salad everyone loves. But for some reason, ducks were on special this week, so Jane picked one up instead of a chicken. I had my doubts, but I figured, why not?
Need pod.
I've had to wean myself off a few podcasts this week. The political ones were the first to go—obviously. I couldn’t keep subjecting myself to that grief and stress for the next few months. But I’ve also ditched some strength training and fitness podcasts. Turns out, a bunch of the hosts were these ultra right-wing, Trump-loving douche-bros and listening to them was just... exhausting. So, I hit delete.
Oh boy.
I did surprisingly well yesterday in not following the news. Honestly, it turned out to be easier than I expected once I had a sense of what was actually happening. I’m not sure I’ll be following the news for the next couple of weeks—maybe even the next four years.
This time will be different!
I promised myself I wouldnt read, view, listen to or in any way consume a single data point of reporting, analysis, wishcasting, whatever about the US election this week. Not until it was all over, bar the civil war.
I have, of course, failed miserably in that.
But today… today will be different. I mean it this time.
I won’t be checking a damn thing until at least the cocktail hour this evening.
Analogue connection.
I was surprised to open the mail box and find a postcard from my daughter the other day. She’s travelling at the moment but it never occurred to me that she would do something so antique as sending hard copy. I’m glad she did though. I quite liked it.
