Jen Mclevey

Small travel highlight from yesterday, handing the Swiss border agent my US passport, answering I am in Basel until Monday, she asks if I live in the UK, and expresses relief when I say yes. ‘Oh, good, otherwise that is a very long journey for only three days in Basel!’

Having a day where nothing is going quite right.

I have to go into the office tomorrow for the first time since I delivered cookies there on 20 December. It’ll be good once I’m there, but the usual leaving the house dread is strong tonight.

On a more positive note, I am eager to write, which is a nice change after some difficult months.

Update: I still hurt from yesterday’s fall, but in very specific areas of my body.

Oh yeah, this is now available to buy. amzn.eu/d/3SWGkZk

After work I managed to fall not quite down the stairs, but at the bottom of the stairs. My elbow still really fucking hurts and I keep forgetting until it brushes against anything. Gonna be a fun night.

Sunday. Did some reading then some household work, then put together a 90-page colouring book, as you do.

Friday. On the cusp of major changes, but feeling positive.

Adjusting to changes and planning ahead. So much to write and so little time. But for now, a lunch break.

Tuesday. Back at work and straight into meetings. Knees still aching from Rome but ankle in surprisingly good form.

Leaving for the airport in 30 minutes. Two of us are ready to go, and the other is at the post office.

Tuesday. Meeting, prep of some promotional slides, therapy, yoga. As a bonus, my ethics application was approved today, so I’m free to conduct interviews if I want to.

Monday. Sweet, beautiful routine. How I’ve missed this… temporary but I’ll take what I can get.

Well, the kitchen is cleaned and put back to non-baking setup, the coffee maker is fully serviced and descaled, with multiple loads of laundry on the go.

Sunday. An attempt to be back to normal, so started with gym and now a day of household chores. It’s going to be a challenging month in a lot of ways.

Wednesday. A new year, but a normal day. Not working, not writing. Next stop, being tech support.

Monday. Working, with an extended lunch break. Days have no meaning (still) but creeping towards normality with each passing night.

Sunday. Life churns around me and I’m ready for normality to return. Normal routine, normal food, normal activity.

Having an app for Overnights also massively helps with nerd stuff on days off.

Nerding doesn’t stop for Bank Holidays.

Looking forward to seeing how Squid Game crushes the As Viewed for today.

Chatting Christmas overnights with a friend who has left the industry. As you do…

But a 79.4 share in 16-34s as broadcast. Oof that’s good. (Also noting the drop of Chuck‘s speech when you flip between Inds 4+ and 16-34…)

Back to work tomorrow. The kid has gone upstairs so we’re watching bonus afternoon Squid Game.

For Christmas it’s all cookies, fudges, and truffles. This was last year’s selection.

I think there will be about 25 varieties again this year, plus the addition of a savoury box.

There’s a Google Form for people to fill out, then I pack up tasting trays full of cookies and the kid and I do a full day on the road delivering them.

I’ve started this year’s Christmas baking. It’s the primary tradition I’ve carried on from childhood. It gets bigger each year and (thankfully) I have a lot of friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, etc. who take boxes of them from me.

I exchanged several messages today that amounted to ‘fucking hell it’s only Tuesday’.

Tuesday. This has dragged on forever, like this morning was a week ago. Nevertheless, I’ve worked and tracked ads and had therapy and later I’ll go to yoga.

Monday. Spent the whole day working on a project. Tomorrow is more of the same so that I can not work on it at the end of the week. This is. Perfectly reasonable approach.