Lifenotes #18: May 2022

The one where I turned 33 🎈

📆 26 June 2022 · 2 min read ⏱️

✨ 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 🩸🎉

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