Notes and links from Friday 17 July

Status: My monthly-ish occupational therapy for the chronic fatigue was today. The general consensus is I’m doing pretty well at pacing and keeping to my baseline while pottering around the house. That baseline is pretty unproductive though and while productivity is a toxic concept, I do need to feel like I’m contributing something. So the next task is to try to do more things, see if and how they harm me, regroup and then try them differently. The goals we set are to go to a cafe/bar once a week on my own and to develop the writing I’m doing here into something more packaged and “useful” rather than whatever happens to come out of my fingers that day. The former is to get me back into the community while the latter is to get to a position where someone might pay me to work from home. Both are very much long term goals which I don’t expect to fully achieve before the year is out, but they also feel doable. Reading: Ghost Town, At The Club and Britain’s summer of discontent — A history…