Lifenotes #18: May 2022

✨ Highlights

• Went outlet shopping with a friend and had a lovely time 🛍
• Turned 33 🎈
• All Day Hey!
• Back in the game with my NYT Crossword streak 💪🏼
  • I’m finding it harder to do it on my own cause Thom and I have very complementary knowledge 😅
• Saw a lot of friends this month! Dinner dates, walks, picnics... It was really nice 💛
• A whole bunch of my squad came to the office this month for a social, it was lovely to see everyone.
• After a year-long low iron timeout, I managed to donate blood again 🩸🎉

🎮 Played/Read/Watched

• Lessons learned from the recent job hunt by Jamie Tanna
• Ex Machina
• Finished Killing Eve 😢
• Rewatched Fleabag and bawled my eyes out.
• Started Greys anatomy and only after realised it has 18(!) series.
• The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures by Zach Lloyd
• Decoding the Wicker Man by Roger Light
• Everything, everywhere, all at once: I loved this film so much! I am obsessed with Michelle Yeoh and she is fantastic in it 🌟
• Finished The Mercies, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. I found the story a bit tepid but the setting was really interesting.
• The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This was a page turner for me, I devoured it over two days.
• The fourth language by Andrew Walpole
• Scaling CSS Layout Beyond Pixels by Stephanie Eckles
• Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript by Andrew Lunny
• Not my job by Silvia Botros
• Lost in Translation by Manuel Matuzović
• Working hard, hardly working by Grace Beverley. I didn’t know who the author was when I bought this, and maybe if I did I wouldn’t have 😅 It was ok, some good tips and advice in there but not much that was new to me.
• Severance (again!)
• How much of these hills is gold by C Pam Zhang. I really enjoyed this, it was a touching story.
• Stranger Things Series 4

📸 Pics