Hit and Miss

Hit and Miss #290: Mockingbird

March 26, 2023

Hello! Another weekend spent checking out cool places and visiting with friends. (I’ll stop vaguebooking in a week or two, I promise.) I heard a mockingbird...

Hit and Miss #289: No news

March 19, 2023

Hi there! It’s been a lovely week travelling with T and friends (hi S and V!), but I’m pretty wiped and don’t have much to say otherwise. (Other than, I was...

Hit and Miss #288: Honoured

March 12, 2023

Hi! Writing after a fairly hectic week, wrapping some things at work before some time off. Because of that hectic week, I haven’t had much time to speak to,...

Hit and Miss #287: Good company

March 5, 2023

Hello! It’s been a lovely day, hosting S and V for brunch (Dutch babies are the best!), followed by time in the sun and springlike weather. Yes, there’ll be...

Hit and Miss #286: Cosy up

February 26, 2023

Hello! Having a lovely cosy morning, after a lovely cosy day, which leaves me in more of a reading mood than a writing one. And that’s great! Rest, rest,...

Hit and Miss #285: Links on data, exploitation, and hunkering down

February 19, 2023

Hello! I’ve spent much of the weekend working on an exciting data-y side project. Been having fun learning about graph theory (just enough learning, that is,...

Hit and Miss #284: Holding on

February 12, 2023

Hello! T and I were talking last night about hospital doctors (particularly residents) who work 24-hour shifts. (If you hadn’t heard about this, there’s a...

Hit and Miss #283: Existing in melancholy

February 5, 2023

Hello! Yesterday was one of varying degrees of angst and worry—the kind that, though not entirely gone, dissipates gradually with solitude and sleep. So,...

Hit and Miss #282: Snowy brain

January 29, 2023

Hello! T and I spent the day in Montreal with family—a last minute decision, but a nice change of scenery (even if much of the scenery was obscured by...

Hit and Miss #281: Links on recordkeeping and more

January 22, 2023

Good afternoon! (That’s me, trying to wake myself up as a small food coma combines with a dreary weather day.) I’ve got some exciting spreadsheets to make...

Hit and Miss #280: Living by the clock, by the light

January 15, 2023

Hello! Good afternoon—or, well, it feels like afternoon here, as the sun stretches closer to the horizon and the shadows lengthen. There are two modes we can...

Hit and Miss #279: More rest

January 8, 2023

Hello! Been a bit of a week. Returned to Ottawa after a few (pretty full, heavy) weeks away, only for all the stress to dump on me and trigger a sick...

Hit and Miss #278: 2022 to 2023

January 1, 2023

Hello! It’s been a pretty full day here (Italian families hang out on New Year’s Day, so I’m chock full of lentils and whatnot), after a full few weeks. 2022...

Hit and Miss #277: 2022 reads

December 25, 2022

Hi there! Bit of a different situation today: writing this post from my phone, on the road. It’s been quite a week, but things are feeling more or less...

Hit and Miss #276: Passing the baton

December 18, 2022

Hullo! Today began gloriously sunny, lighting up the decimetres of snow we got the last few days. It’s more subdued now—low-level clouds moved in, darkening...

Hit and Miss #275: Assurance

December 11, 2022

Hello! Say a government has a policy objective. Implementing it requires sophisticated underlying infrastructure. This infrastructure is large, complex....

Hit and Miss #274: See also

December 4, 2022

Hello! It was a good week. Changes afoot, on which more another time—for now, reading and rest. As an opening note, I really appreciated Sara Hendren’s...

Hit and Miss #273: Transcripting

November 27, 2022

Hello! I spent much of the weekend working on a civic tech project, so I haven’t got much juice left to write in-depth here. The project is a web version of...

Hit and Miss #272: Extremely online

November 20, 2022

For the Extremely Online™, this last week has been a continued horror show. It’s renewed and revitalized my impulse to have whatever I write (post, photo,...

Hit and Miss #271: Promises to self

November 13, 2022

I’ve been lacking the motivation to go outside the last few weeks—little surprise, as the seasons change and our bodies only gradually adapt. And as I write...