The qatsi awards
Dec. 31st, 2020 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiWell, who ordered that? But there must have been some good things in 2020, even if in some cases almost by default: here are mine.
Honourable mentions for I, Claudius (fiction); State of Emergency and In the Shadow of Vesuvius (non-fiction); all those involved in the curtailed season, but particularly Jonathan Scott's organ recital at the Proms (music).
I began the year by escaping from a job I knew I didn't want to one I was unsure of, having been made "an offer I could not refuse" as I was travelling for Christmas at the end of last year. Although I had only one day in the office, and struggled at home with laptop permissions for a while, it has turned into one of those better decisions. Nothing is certain, but it feels like a healthier place to be.
I keep wanting to write with rage about the dual incompetences of our government, but that will keep for next year.
May all our 2021s be filled with needle-waving medics. Unfortunately an online calculator suggests it may be 2022 before I can get vaccinated, but I hope the roll-out will be accelerated as much as possible.
- Fiction - The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
- Non-fiction - The Powerful and the Damned, by Lionel Barber
- Music - The Budapest Cafe Orchestra
- Film and Theatre - Harriet
- Museums and Exhibitions - none
- Food and Drink - well, R and I have both become rather proficient at home-made cheesecakes.
Honourable mentions for I, Claudius (fiction); State of Emergency and In the Shadow of Vesuvius (non-fiction); all those involved in the curtailed season, but particularly Jonathan Scott's organ recital at the Proms (music).
I began the year by escaping from a job I knew I didn't want to one I was unsure of, having been made "an offer I could not refuse" as I was travelling for Christmas at the end of last year. Although I had only one day in the office, and struggled at home with laptop permissions for a while, it has turned into one of those better decisions. Nothing is certain, but it feels like a healthier place to be.
I keep wanting to write with rage about the dual incompetences of our government, but that will keep for next year.
May all our 2021s be filled with needle-waving medics. Unfortunately an online calculator suggests it may be 2022 before I can get vaccinated, but I hope the roll-out will be accelerated as much as possible.