Hello, it is Monday morning and this week I've decided to try and do another week
long vlog. Hello, it's Tom from the future. It's now Wednesday and, looking back
over the footage, I've decided that what actually I'm gonna do is release one of
these videos each day but two days late and I'm going to hopefully do five
videos in a row. Kind of day in the life stuff. And so yeah. That's what's
gonna happen. Back to me on Monday. It's something that people have asked
for a couple of times in the comments and I thought to ignore that would be
slightly rude and so I'm going to give it another shot. So, good morning. It
is Monday morning. My first task for today is to edit an abstract for a kind
of conference-cum-festival that I'm doing a little talk at in a couple of
months.
I've just been looking through the programme for it and it looks really
really exciting in a very daunting way. I've just realized that
I've got to present alongside lots of really, really cool people who are
performing and presenting and it looks really, really cool. But I hope that my
abstract maybe makes me look like maybe worth coming to watch doing a little bit of
talking in the panel that I'm involved with. But I'm mainly just
really excited to be involved. It's called the Liberating Arts Festival it's in Exeter.
And there's loads of amazing performances happening. So I've just
spent far longer than I thought I would catching up on emails after the
weekend. Usually, I would try to keep up with my emails over the weekend but we
took quite a lot of time off which was really nice and went on some
day trips and that didn't mean I had quite a lot of catching up to do
today. But now, I'm going to make a youtube video, which means this is a bit
weird because I'm filming myself filming myself. The other day I got a new
camera lens which doesn't necessarily mean the quality will go up but it does give
me a lot of different options for angles particularly in this quite
small room, which is bigger than my old office used to be but still not
huge. By the time this video goes up the one I'm just about to make will
hopefully be up already. Quite hefty lens this new one but it does give me a much
more of a wide angle so that, if I turn it on, I can get a lot more of my desk in
although I do need to put the memory card in would always help. The body
of the camera that I use to film is actually quite old. It does mean that
I don't have a flip-out screen so I have to plug it into my laptop whereby I have
myself on here and as the viewfinder so I can just kind of check
it's all in focus and stuff. The new lens is actually quite intimidating, quite a
lot bigger than my old one.
My voice is now incredibly dry from just talking at the camera for ages. I'm
gonna import the footage now but I feel like I probably won't edit it
straightaway because I'd like to do a little bit of reading today. I'd like
to start some work, I've basically got to fill in some gaps in my
literature review because I've got some sources that are really old some that
are really new and there's kind of 10 years of a gap and in my
reporting on the field I'm working in. And so I think I'm gonna leave the
actual editing footage till a little bit later and go and sit on the sofa
and do some readings which is slightly more relaxed than my talking to camera that
I've just been doing.
I may go to the library in a little bit because outside looks so tempting
compared to reading inside, compared to that lovely sky outside full of light
fluffy, fluffy white clouds, compared to this screen full of white blank space
on which I'm trying to read this book which is actually a really good book but
I'd rather be out there.
Okay, my plan this afternoon was to go to the library and do some work there, mainly
just to get out the house but, on my way there, I realized I was actually quite hungry.
So, I grabbed some ham and bread from co-op but then thought that maybe making
a sandwich in the public library isn't exactly library appropriate behavior. So I'm
gonna sit here in lovely Horfield Common for a little while and do some reading
here and get some fresh air. I've been stuck inside all day
and I think it's really nice just to get out and about where there's other people
etcetera and so I'm going to be reading here under these lovely blue skies
that we have today. The best thing about working in the park is that people's dogs
always come up and say hello to you. It's kind of like having a dog
without any of the responsibility that goes along with that.
Although it does tend to mean that people then come along and apologize
that their dog came over and said hello to you as though having to stroke a dog
was a bad thing.
I threw a ball for a dog and thought that was probably as good as my time at the
park was gonna get, so I'm now back at home. I'm gonna have a quick PlayStation
break before finishing off the chapter I was reading and then hopefully
editing some video.
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a great week!