Daphne Bennett
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Last Friday, I volunteered at the library for a couple of hours and did some sketch, got a book from the Charity shop. Sorted out some wallpaper, attended a workshop and getting off FB. I have stopped looking at Facebook over the weekend. My inlaw helped us with wallpapering and I had made everyone roast…
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but now it is Tuesday It will take a while to find the right pace. I had hoped to start on a Monday but I fell into a rabbit hole learning libraries in Python on VSCode. To overcome my psychological barriers, I decided yesterday morning was the first time I load some csv into VSCode…
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Carolyn Yoo’s proposal of going quietly public on the internet I have come across Carolyn Yoo’s Substack, See You, suggesting going online publicly online. She suggests it is possible to own a digital space but outside a social media platform – not instagram, not substack, not YouTube. It can be my blog, my website, somewhere…
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There are years that my Google Map review shown my furthest adventure was a supermarket 5 miles east to my house or a park 10 miles west, as a passenger. But not this year. I went to London 3 times, visited Edinburgh, Durham, drove to Barnsley and flew Hong Kong. I haven’t flown for 8…
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“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.” ― T.S. Eliot (Scroll to bottom for English version) T.S Elliot 話，太多經歷，太少意義。 我想寫中文，唔理有無人睇，唔理邊個睇 ，唔理AI 寫得好過我。我想寫中文。 有好多嘢我都有自知之明 ——自知唔明。 個個都寫嘢，寫咗又無人睇。 唔使急，唔係趕住做KOL 急住要分析時事局勢，指點江山，寫完又無人睇，都係寫啲茶餘飯後嘅傷春悲秋，諗下先，睇定啲先。 我日日嘗試做得好啲，我都唔知好啲—係搵多兩個錢，定陪啲細路多啲，定間屋吸塵拖地換床單，周末meal plan 計劃好啲，定睇多啲書，定學多幾隻字，定寫嘢，定畫嘢，定見多啲人，定諗下平時返工有咩進步嘅空間，定學多啲電腦酬備轉工，定填下form搵份有大啲機會可持續發展嘅工？ 我完全唔知點先叫做好啲。我以為工作安穩，但常有控制不了嘅人事問題令我個個月都有衝動劈炮唔撈。跟住我諗，係我自己見識少，係我少少嘢都瓜瓜叫，挨多兩星期又出糧， it can’t be that bad。 究竟點先可以做得啱？我覺得我仲係好似五歲時，幾努力都係俾人打。 人大咗講嘢無咁大聲，自我HR 審查，怕得罪人。但我成世人都唔知點解，不明所意，成日得罪人。我以為我終於開竅嘅時候，下星期又打回原形。人大咗，接受自己渺小如塵，平庸無稽，但我幾唔想俾人見到，要生存，我都要融入社會㗎。我唔想做能人所不能，但我唔放棄做自己，唔諗辦法超越現時嘅我，我就死得。 但同時我仲係default parent，星期一至日都係我最早起身，整早餐放狗幫啲細路換衫預時間出門口準時返學返工，返工前設定洗衣乾衣 D 細路有校服著，放工後煮飯洗碗放狗晾衫摺衫，返工學習HR…
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and I have given up pretending otherwise. a year since i printed my new business cards on moo, i had done no blogging, sketched a few lines and hardly touched any python. what a let-down. i still spend far too much time on the phone and drink too much. no one is going to read…
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In 3 days it will be my birthday. I will be 3 36 has been a strange year. I have never done so much in a year, I think. I have started a Substack last year, before I started working, and a website/blog a couple of years ago, then I ran away and have hardly…
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I have been cutting down my time on instagram and Facebook. Deleted the apps and only check when there’s a couple specific things to look up. Am I happier? I don’t know, but the urge to post daily and check if anyone like or comment my posts are gone. Less likely to check on comments…
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So, as I said, I was busy with my homework and went to London last weekend. So things have been slow. But I have still done plenty of drawings. Here are a few: I have started this a while ago, its a mixed media on marker paper work. This is typical scene in my house…
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If you are looking for advice, you are at the wrong place. I write this blog not because I am an expert of parenting, but because I haven’t a clue, because I am so busy yet so bored. Don’t take this as a hint and tell me what I should do, what I should try,…
Daphne Bennett 