very rainy feb

earlier this week i think i felt a random urge to shop, which sounds so...bad. but i genuinely needed to get this cream. and then, we were out of the hand soap in kitchen so i thought, well i'll pop in Sainsburys. and i kinda wanted a new scented candle. and then, there were these tiny food storage boxes, that we'd discussed needing. and then i realised we're prolly out of banana, so i got that. and altho we have a grocery delivery coming later this week, i couldnt wait for it to try some Alpro soy yogurt. i think ive tried it before but dont remember what i thought of it, and now ive decided on going non-dairy with my yogurt again. so. and so i ended up buying quite a few things. 

we have been watching Traitors (UK, US, AU) and i find it kind of fascinating. it is very much a luck game, but as a viewer we like to think we would be maybe better players, we would notice and sense who the traitors are. or we would be more strategic as traitors. i kind of find it sad how much it is about luck though, and although there have been a few different versions of the ’end game’, i think the odds are stacked against the faithfuls. either way, fun watch.  

i started listening to Pretend podasts series on The Word of Faith ”church”, which sounds more like a cult. but so refreshing to hear they are led by a woman, so rare with cults. gender equality coming to a cult near you! 

this New Yorker article on ultra processed foods and studies on them was interesting. i guess we knew processed food can be bad, but how bad, and its not all processed foods… actually it seemed kind of complicated. 

i heard scented candles might be bad for you. causing cancer, of course, its always cancer. i think im getting cancer from so many things that a scented candle here or there wont make much difference. sounds like a very fatalistic attitude, or just laziness.

finally finished this puzzle. it took forever… but i got to the end. and started a new, significantly easier one. also smaller, 1000 vs 1500 - its a significant difference in difficulty. 

breakfast today. thank you dr. (turkish cibir eggs)

dr and i went to design museum yesterday. it was smaller than i expected, but nice stuff. 

dr specifically wanted to go cos there was a Wes Anderson exhibition. i havent not watched many of his latest films, somehow it just doesnt appeal to me, although i liked his first biggr films like The Royal Tenenbaums.

what a stupid ad. and at a tube station, costs a fortune! says something about how many people will probably go for it. unfortunate.

at the AI & big data expo last week. 

pretty typical brekkie, although i usually only have one kind of fruit with the yogurt, muesli and chia seeds. not sure exactly how many nutrients are in this, but i would like to think this is a decent start to the day. certainly could be worse. 

started 2 books; Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen, and The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates. too early to comment on either. 

quite chuffed that built a playwright automation this week with AI.