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Leila did a walk in the morning and called Iman about her wet laptop issues, and then talked to her mum about her mum wanting her to come home. She walked up to the graveyard and back and it was a super nice sunny day. Alex met her downstairs and Leila was in work modeContinue reading “Day 44: Reflections on Lockdown”

Leila woke up early and went for a walk around the graveyard and listened to FT news briefing, everyone was talking about Decivar (?), the potential vaccine which is super controversial. She’s really enjoying the morning walks as a way to start the day. When Leila comes back, Alex is usually up and running afterContinue reading “Day 43: Final Lecture”

Leila woke up before her alarm and decided she wanted to go for a walk, having not left the house the entire day before. She did 45 minutes of work before walking along the canal listening to the FT News Briefing and ended up near Hidden Coffee, which happened to be opening 5 minutes later.Continue reading “Day 42: Pies and Podcasts”

Alex woke up quite early and failed to give Leila a fancy latte art coffee, rather it looked like a mess. Leila was feeling itchy and while Alex was working on his Togo memo before the lunchtime (US time) meeting, she baked vegan chocolate chip cookies. It was raining and pretty miserable so there wasn’tContinue reading “Day 41: TV day in the rain”

Leila woke up extra early to finish off her Ismaili COVID work before she started actual work. She sent the deck at 8.25am and then moved on. Alex finished his book in the morning and then spent some time thinking about potential jobs in the future. He did this by writing out a huge listContinue reading “Day 40: Toastie”

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, onlyContinue reading “Day 39: In search of purpose”

Alex slept in, but when he came down Leila had started reading on the sofa. They started planning for the day and had a disagreement over whether Alex wanted to help on the Ismaili work. They agreed that they both did want to be super intertwined though and Leila made him a coffee with aContinue reading “Day 38: Gyoza & Garden”

For the first time in her life, despite waking up at usual time, Leila decided she wasn’t going to start work straight away. She woke Alex up to check if he was okay (he hadn’t been well in the night) and hadn’t realised he wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep after. They bothContinue reading “Day 37: Rhubarb and Yoga”

Leila got up for work feeling pretty tired and worried for Alex, who had started feeling pretty ill in the middle of the night. He woke up at 2am and ended up staying awake to near-on 7am whilst shivering and then sweating. Leila started work but got thinking about what she could do to helpContinue reading “Day 35: Alex gets ill too”

Leila had a nice quiet morning of work and a 10 min breakfast on the bench in the sun. She waited for Alex to wake up before making coffee, using the last of the Press beans. She then worked all morning. Alex spent the morning flitting between his microeconomic problem set and doing research forContinue reading “Day 34: Potting”