Emotion of the day number 10, with thanks to Be Manzini
Familial…
Emotion of the day number 9, with thanks to Be Manzini
… sometimes it’s tricky to stick to a single one and my family might contend garrulous should have made the cut ultimately today. Still a rainy family walk to Woodseats and then over to Abbeydale road with a friend leaves me with community warmth in mind.
Ruminative…
Emotion of the day number 8, with thanks to Be Manzini
… Another missed day and the temptation to leave it completely was palpable today. The reverse of habit forming. To be ruminating, one of those tiring thinking type of days.
Spent…
Emotion of the day number 7, with thanks to Be Manzini
… How the mighty have fallen… I missed my first day yesterday. It was a busy one with too many opposing forces and a big deadline. Which I did hit but with a late night..
Triumphant…
Emotion of the day number 6, with thanks to Be Manzini
… Summarising a fairly winning feeling for the day so far, productive, sociable, bought amazing books for research in Oxfam, didn’t get unduly stressed about an application and picked tiny red leaves with my son. For someone who ruminates on what a work day should entail, what makes for legitimate labour and so on it is relieving to feel less preoccupied about this today.
Abstemious / new series of posts, number 5…
Emotion of the day, with thanks to Be Manzini
… Sometimes it’s hard to define a single one and this required consideration but feels like a good summary for a fairly productive if ordinary type of tier 3 wet winter day.
Drudgerous / new series of posts, number 4…
Emotion of the day, with thanks to Be Manzini
… With thanks to Annabel for a clarifying discussion on this one – that they’re definitely allowed to be made up. Could also be sludgery, sludgerous. Mental drudgery in that my ruminating is particularly uninspired and toilsome today.
Reticent / new series of posts, number 3…
Emotion of the day, with thanks to Be Manzini
… I’m enjoying researching definitions for this exercise. It’s an illuminating thing to seek the exact meaning you’re mindful of. Not sure I’ve hit it right today as I mean something more deliberate and retreating but this definition includes ‘inclined to be silent’ so perhaps I’m close enough.
Freelancing in 2020: The State of Play
I’m representing Dial F for Freelancer in a session for This Way Up 2020 with my colleague Jo Taylor and Sonali Joshi for Excluded UK and Christina Lister for Museum Freelance
Some references I hope to include in our discussion are available for follow up here:
- Finding Hope During and After the Pandemic / New Economics Foundation
- Farzana Khan / Healing Justice London
- Freelancer Confidence Index Hub / IPSE (Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed)
- The Reith Lectures 2020: Mark Carney – How We Get What We Value From Moral to Market Sentiments
- How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division / Elif Shafak
Vivacious / new series of posts, number 2…
Emotion of the day, with thanks to Be Manzini
… It was going to be irascible due to broken sleep, lukewarm coffee and that invasive drizzle Sheffield specialises in. Then I went to Bragazzis and their xmas shop newly reopened. One cappuccino, two sandwiches (shared!) later and I’ve gone for an Italian tribute to my uplift in energy. On a quick browse I’m not into the ‘especially used to describe a woman..’ definition. I like this one ‘lively in temper, conduct, or spirit’.
Anna Kime 