Leila was up early to finish her book before book club at 11am. She finished it in the sun outside and then started researching the author a little bit more because she was so intrigued. She put on a summer dress ahead of the Zoom call and sat down a few minutes before 11am, only for one of the book club attendees in South Korea to say she had to work so couldn’t attend. Joohee (organiser) called Leila and they agreed to postpone until next Sunday but instead have a catch-up. They chatted outside about career and then about movies and how both of them have very different movie taste to their boyfriends. Leila thought she’d be upset It was cancelled having spent the entire day before reading for the bookclub, but actually she was actually really happy to just catch-up with Joohee and get an extra hour back so she could start her Ismaili work sooner.
Alex had a lie in and woke up up not too long before his D&D started at 12. They had 15 mins together in the sun and then Leila made him a coffee as he logged on. Many of the crew were late again (again again) so he watched a video on difference in differences for his econometrics and cracked on with finishing the problem set. They started properly playing 15 mins later and it was a good sesh where they all (but Danny) got sent to jail and it was a super cliffhanger where they are now in front of the King’s court. While Alex was on his game, Leila was doing her Ismaili analysis, which she felt was going super slowly. Alex did the hoovering for the last half hour (his character was essentially unconscious after having tried to escape), and he joined Leila downstairs. They looked at the excel together and Alex McKinsified some of the slides (legend with .5 sized, no outline squares in top right hand corner) while Leila cut mango and pomelo. Alex joined his call with Sam, Hannah, and then with Dave & Cam until 6pm, (they talked about purposes and how they relax and what they’re doing with their time under lockdown) while Leila joined her fam call but didn’t really contribute because she still Ismailing up the PowerPoint. We had a break in the garden and we both felt a bit dead. It was nice though and they sat on the far bench as Leila kept saying she wanted to leave, but Alex knew she wanted to cuddle on the bench instead. Leila was in search for something productive, fun, enabled vegging, no brainpower, that helped her on her long term search for purpose. After 30 mins of Barre, a chat with Anish, a scan through every Netflix, Amazon and iPlayer show, and an easy dinner of veg and fishcakes, Leila hadn’t found her holy grail (Although maybe it was Cable Girls, which they watched at the end, Alex secretly enjoys it and commentates loudly about how ghastly the characters are, except Pablo who he loves and always gets hard done by). However, the food was nice and they clambered into bed and chilled and Alex told Leila a romantic story of what was going through his head about a Polish psychologist and a Norwegian geologist who go to a cottage in the countryside.
See below some terrible photos they took of the night.
Coffee, Wine and Isolation 