appreciating this current life
lately i’ve been listening to a lot of finnish music, Lyyti, Vesta, Vesala, Behm and some old favs like Zen Cafe and Pariisin Kevät. current finnish amd foreigns favs:
The George Kaplan Conspiracy: Sing For Me
as i do recruiting at work, i sometimes call candidates to ask something about their CV or otherwise relevant to whether we want to consider them for a role. i'd called this guy and asked him a few things. point is i spoke with this person. later when i sent our standard email, rejecting him as we chose to proceed with more qualified candidates, he emailed me not as a reply to that, but to my personal work email. it only had one sentence; you're more useful in the kitchen than at work.
i mean, woah. this guy has issues. and he has not seen me in the kitchen...lol. frankly, i assume the same of him.
our company's remote work week in greece was a success. i was a bit stressed organising it, but in the end all went pretty well and people seemed happy. so yay.
by a greek pool. work was busy but i took friday off to chill.
i returned from from helsinki just over a week ago. first i needed to rest a little and the i got back to life & life admin. my puzzle was waiting for me, scheduling meetings with friends, activating my new credit card (just changing from Nationwide to Barclays), organising my clothes, and trying various combinations of skin care with a testing mindset. folding laundry yesterday i felt grateful and content.
Jess gifted me a book, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. it’s a novel but she raved about it so i’m curious and i started reading. but for example today i finished audiobook I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again by Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisele & Dominique Pelicot. we like to think these kind of monsters hide in the shadows somewhere and we would recognise them from afar, but they are often all too close. as a book, sure, maybe it was not the best, but i appreciated the insight.
today i also started the bio of Anna Kontula, a finnish leftist(communist) politician whose books (=thinking, values, intellect) i have previously enjoyed. it’s surprising to me she does not recollect her stepfathers drunken violence negatively, i think seeing a father figure beat up your mother is bound to fuck you up a little. interestingly, just like me, as a child she wondered why should we wear matching socks. it’s unclear to me if she eventually went with it or not. i still wear mismatched socks. most of the time i wear tights though of course.
last night we went to Gökce for dinner, she lives near Canary Wharf and it’s a 1 hour trip there although geographically it’s not that far. that’s like from Helsinki to Porvoo… but that’s how it is here. anyway dinner was great, her friends who also joined were interesting, working in the tv/film industry.
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