Stuff is broken at work. Stuff that impacts our work immensely but is entirely outside of my circle of control; there is nothing I can do to fix it. I can only watch the alerts go off constantly and the graphs all point in the wrong direction. And I can turn things off and back on again at regular intervals to minimise the damage. I’m like a data administrator from the previous century, pressing buttons to refresh my numbers and then manually twiddling knobs in response.

It’s simultaneously stressful and boring. There’s no way I can focus on any of my actual work while this is going on, but I can absolutely make pancakes in between clicking stuff, so that’s what I’m doing to add some cheer to my day.