The one workplace training I dont miss from my edtech days in my big company? *Microaggressions*. Good grief, it was the most painful and absurdly stupid training ever. Like, absolutely anything you say, do or write could be construed as “micro-aggression” by another colleague with possibility of making your life hell (I never faced it, but so many ppl had in the company). It was to a point where every single conversation had to be so measured and so prim-n-proper that it was fucking annoying. Dont get me wrong, and microaggression has its place but good grief it was taken to another extreme in these new companies. Like just focus on your job and get out!
This week I have 6 meetings on my calendar which is a record low anyway, but icing being 4 of them are today! Which means past today whether I take days off or not it’s mostly a forced holiday week 😆
Got the yearly heating inspection done and apparently the heating backup is not working. Nah I ain’t spending another 2k fixing this electric shit. Gonna just budget for replacing it with gas furnance next year. Done with this fake electric shit.
So yeah I did make the vada pav but it didn’t hit the spot coz I didn’t have the right kind of besan flour. Nonetheless the potato filling is tasty enough that I can make open face sandwiches out of it tomorrow!
I tried my hand at “textured” art today. Once it dries up will try some painting as well on it! The title of this piece is “the idiot who has no clue what he was up to!”
📺 Bandish Bandits (2020) – ★★★☆☆
My god season 2 of this show could never make up its mind on what it really wanted to be. So many good ideas on the table and yet felt like the show never wanted to settle on one – should it have been a classical singer coming to terms that classical music is not accessible to all? Should it have been about a pop singer realizing what her talent was? Was it about a disgraced son who rightfully demanded his place? Or was it about math and ai in music (not making this up!). Like anyone of those would have provided a good season worth of material and it does none of them well. The pop music unlike season 1 doesn’t work too well, but the classical pieces on the other hand are absolutely superlative! Even the classical fusion are awesome – Garaj Garaj rock and Saavan mohe tarasaaye were standouts.
On the plus side days are going get longer from now on yay yay yay! Fuck winter can’t wait for spring!
First truly cold walk of the season in feels like 20 degree weather today. It was biting cold allright but I have got my layers down to a T that I still work up a sweat on the walk even if my ears and face are frozen!
Went to return a a few items at UPS store and saw an old grandma shipping home baked cookies to multiple people paying 50-90$ per box she shipped because she wanted them delivered before Christmas. I saw three of them. I just hope the the people whom she sent the cookies love her back as much.
I have a packet full of Pav and too many potatoes and that can only mean one thing that I am going to attempt Pav vada today!