Status 2025-08-16
They say it doesn't have to be crazy at work. For once, it appears I sort of made it true.
I stretched my summer vacation by taking a couple of days off every week instead of taking the full weeks. P says she has read studies about burnout that makes this a better recovery strategy. Maybe it worked?
This was the last week with Mondays and Tuesdays off. This week I managed to keep my hours on Wednesday and Thursday (working 80%, remember?) but, of course, I worked to 23:30 on Friday night. You can't have everything.
This week #3 started upper secondary school! Yet another punk at art school, but this one is mine. As they say. Do they? I find it amusing that Simon Reynolds in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 said:
Especially in Britain, art schools have long functioned as a state-subsidized bohemia, where working-class youths too unruly for a life of labor mingle with slumming bourgeois kids too wayward for a middle-management career.
#3 is obviously incredibly creative so this is really the right place, regardless of what music critics used to say. On the other hand, perhaps she'll be in a band before this is over?
My birthday has been and gone. Another year around the deathstar and closer to death. Yay. I had a very small gathering of the bereaved with some cake. This time, the cake wasn't a lie.
Hackers (1995) turns 30 on September 15. I wrote to one of the fancy cinemas close to me about showing it. They replied! They think it's a great idea, but can't promise that it's going to show in September. Looking forward to it. I suggested that they perhaps make a hacker thing about it, showing WarGames, Sneakers, …
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Claire Dederer's Monsters. Amazingly good. She's like an even more literary Cometbus, but just as punk.
What's up with the different titles, though? It's called Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People and Monsters: A fan's dilemma. Same thing with her bok Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning which is sometimes called Love and Trouble: Confessions of a former Wild Girl. Don't know, but I got to read that, too!
Written by MC on Pungenday, the 9 day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3191 ().