nanila | Entries tagged with friday five

What made you happy this week?

Notification of winning a small summer research grant.
What made you sad?

I was disappointed in a colleague for trying to conceal some serious underperformance when it could have been dealt with easily much earlier on. As it is, now another colleague and I are going to have to put in a lot of effort to attempt to rectify the situation before a deadline next week.
What made you angry?

An academic colleague being outrageously disrespectful to a professional services colleague.
What are you looking forward to in the next week?

Getting that sad piece of work, which should not have been mine in the first place, off my desk at the end of the week.
What are you not looking forward to?

I have to be off-campus for two days next week. I'm not looking forward to the amount of meetings I've had to ram into the other three days of the working week.

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Rejoice, friends, for it is finally the 185th of January, the last day of the month. 🫩

How many times a day do you . . .

Brush your teeth?

Two, morning and evening. Also, before going to the gym, which is a weird quirk I've never bothered to unpack.
Shower?

Once. Twice if I go to the gym.
Check your E-mail?

I do not want to count. Near-continuously from waking until bedtime. I cannot keep up with it. It doesn't help that I have work email from two different institutions and multiple personal email addresses.
Check LJ? (or DW?)

It depends on the week. In non-teaching weeks and during holidays, I can usually read through both once a day. During term time, I do all my f-list / circle catchup at the weekends.

There are exceptions: camping holidays in remote parts of Wales result in zero signal, and grant proposal submission deadlines result in zero personal bandwidth.
Eat?

I usually have two or three meals a day: just after waking, around noon (if I don't have back to back meetings all day), and late afternoon or evening depending on children's activities and exercise classes. If I have the latter, I'll sometimes eat quite late.

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What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.)

Thick, fine, and wavy. There is a lot of it and it grows very fast.
What color is your hair currently?

Starting from my scalp, the first 5 inches are my natural salt and pepper, which I quite like. Then there are a couple of inches of very faded blue. Then there are another 7 or 8 inches of stripped brassy blonde, from when I was dyeing it at home and then stopped because we redecorated the bathroom and I don't want to mess it up. I mostly wear my hair clipped up or in a tight bun right now. As you may have spotted, I have thus far failed at my new year's resolution to find a new hairdresser.
What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair?

Black, brown, red, green, blue and purple. When I had dreadlocks, I often had synthetics woven in in bright colours.
If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?

L'Oréal Blue Mercury is my current favourite.
What is your hair's length?

It's down to my shoulder blade, which is longer than I'd like it to be. I prefer it closer to the tops of my shoulders.

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[HELLO I AM COMET AND I AM TOO CLOSE]

Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?

Frequently. My partner and I sometimes have very different perceptions of certain colours (and no, he’s not red-green colour-blind).
What kind of sounds are the most annoying?

Sounds I didn’t choose to hear, ha. Seriously, though, I quite often put my noise-cancelling headphones on with nothing coming through them, just to block out background sound.
When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?

I *want* to do that all the time. I’m very sensitive to touch. I restrain myself most of the time unless it seems like it is OK (like in a clothing shop). I suspect I’d get thrown out of places if I went round running my hands over veg, freshly baked goods or pick-n-mix for example.
If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?

My cats’ fur when they come in from outside on a cold day. Black Opium by YSL. My partner’s armpits. I am not joking.
What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?

Everything! I love food so much. I especially love very cold fruit juices on a hot day or with a sore throat, the velvety texture of a good chocolate mousse, and the salty satisfaction of slurping ramen noodles.

( Last week's FF )

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What is your favourite fruit?
Guava. Close behind are mango, papaya, and sweet sop. I will never turn down a lychee, a peach, a plum, a satsuma, or any berries. Basically, all the fruit.
What is the last book you read?
Alan Tribble’s “The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design”. It was a real page-turner. Some good example problems, anyway.
Do you like any of your school photos?
No, not really. My smiles in them are all pretty fake.
Do you ever blow-dry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker?
I’m pleased to announce that this has never, ever occurred to me.
What was the last film you watched?
No, shan’t (tell you).

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What is something you collect? Why?

Space mission badges, patches, and stickers, from the ones that I've worked on. They always look so good. I never stick them on anything, though. I just hoard them in little stashes like a greedy dragon. Occasionally I'll put one of the pin badges on my suit lapel.
If you could make one ice cream flavor, what would the ingredients be and what would be the name?

I don't feel the need to invent a flavour when mint chocolate chip is already my all-time favourite.
What can't you go a day without?

I mean, I *can* go without it and I have before, but it isn't pleasant: Coffee.
What position do you sleep in? *back, right side, left side, stomach . . . etc.*

Curled up on my right side in a defensive ball.
What is your typical morning routine before work/school?

Get up, feed cats, empty dishwasher, make breakfast, make coffee, fill everyone's water bottles, pack snacks and lunches, lay out clothes and shoes for the kids, get dressed myself, pack rucksack, sneak in 15 minutes of work or email before shovelling everyone into the car.

I have left out showers, shouting about putting shoes on, and scrubbing toothpaste off school jumpers, but those things usually feature somewhere in there too.

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Sauntering Vaguely Downward