
Working from home continues without change for us in the academic library world, in spite of the garbled, incoherent, irresponsible messaging from the government. I've had a pretty good working week — a bit of online teaching, a bunch of Twitter and website analytics (which basically just told me what I knew already), a lot of research support, and some very good professional news which I can't post about yet. It's looking like my university/employer is in this for the long haul.
This morning I chatted with my mother in Australia, this afternoon Matthias and I will be having virtual drinks with friends in Ely and Vienna, and next weekend we'll have a virtual catch-up with our friends in Devon, whose house we were meant to be visiting this time next week. That's probably about the amount of online socialising I can handle — I'm pretty introverted and find any more than that incredibly draining.
This weekend should be Eurovision, and Matthias and I would normally have hosted some kind of viewing party. Obviously the actual song contest is not going ahead, but the BBC are putting on a Eurovision retrospective/showcase thingy, so I think we'll watch that tonight.
Other than work and video calls, life is punctuated, as ever, by TV and books. I'm aiming to write a couple of longer roundup posts towards the end of the month.
I'm currently doing a Pagan Chronicles reread, which is my ultimate comfort series, and always makes me want to write Babylonne/Isidore fanfic. The trouble is that I find it hard to come up with plots beyond 'Babylonne and Isidore bicker amiably with each other about medieval theology.'
I hope you're all safe and well.