Jack Monroe #58 Schrödinger’s Jack: simultaneously working and sleeping all hours

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Harrybosch

So funny. I'm paraphrasing, but a question being put to her about 'The Power of One' is: It's the sort of story that I have told myself at night when I think the world is all against me but I know that I'm right. A story where I'm triumphant and right and everyone has to recognise it. Is that the reason this book appeals to you?
 
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TheDragonWithAFlagon

As if the nearest RNLI station need the extra work.

Anyhow, whilst she's busy working on her seminal novel A Bungalow of One's Own, she needs to look beyond the superficial 'They Were Lovers, You Know' relationship with Vita Sackville-West and consider some of the things Woolf said that were racist, anti-Semitic, disablist and classist to such an extent that she was being called out on some of them by the 1920s. Woolf also took to her bed and drank lots of milk when unhappy about anything - nobody bothered picking up on that reference in Edinburgh because, well - we don't really care) - and that even V S-W tried to persuade her to not keep the persona of a sickly recluse and that she had been misdiagnosed/there wasn't actually much wrong with her after all. Plus, there was a fuckton of V S-W being pressurised by Woolf to earn all the money whilst she was trying to get VW to write all the books she was claiming to have in her head.
 
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Veronicaaa

Finished it now. She didn't even bother to read the first 100 pages of the host's recommendation. Doon McKinnon actually says to her at the end "We're *all* busy!"
 
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Melling

Just listened to that section. A book about an egomaniac with a saviour complex. What did she see in it?? I love that the other two are so straightforwardly unimpressed and fantastically articulate about what a thoroughly naff book it is, from the title on down. Jack predictably starts agreeing with them because she is nothing if not ingratiating... with blue tickers or the blue tickers of the real world so to speak.
 
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Lanie

I have a few friends but, aslike you when I dealing with shit I go to my mum and my sister and my husband.

I have found the older I get the more I prefer my own company. I've always be a loner type too, I have friends but am quite happy doing my own thing.

I personally think it's really bad that she's using her patron when she off work. It's taking it away from other people with patrons who are actually working their fingers to the bone. Petal your on break. Take it, close up shop and sort yourself out. Come back in a week or so and start again. Ring your bill companies up explain your situation, try and sort some sort of payment plan until you get sorted. Wl
Luckily my burn outs happened a good few years back so i am fine now. Thank you for your kindness though. When I was burned out I was just running on empty, I forgot everything, broke down numerous occasions over the smallest thing, looked forward to my bed( although I did maintain a bedtime routine) didn't want to be around people, yet felt like I needed the people. Basically stopped caring about everything and anything. I was just there.
 
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Harrybosch

I know nothing about photography and I'm sure some of it is just personal taste, but if anyone here knows stuff about photography, could you let me know why this looks so much better to me: https://www.instagram.com/yessica_duque_photography/

I don't hate our Jackie's photos as much as some of you lady Frauen, but I can see the difference between her stuff and the link above (for example).

Now fuck off.
Oh and answer my question, pretty please.
 
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Silver Linings

Beloved @Pocahontas next time you create the next thread with all the colours of the wind can you add in ‘Now fuck off’ into the Jackisms please and thankyou thank you.
 
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Bookweevil

Doon’s opening, ‘Oh dear’ after Jack finishes her first waffle is majestic.
 
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Hellybelly

I saw someone comment that she is a superhero on her last Instagram post. Someone replied "why? " and R Jackie wrote an arsey reply back, the commenter then asked why she was so angry and the whole conversation was deleted. Call my cynical but the title superhero in relation to a blogger is a bit misplaced given the current pandemic. I mean nurses, doctors, NHS staff, shelf stacker, truck drivers, bus drivers.... All those keeping the country still running, superheroes yes..... Someone narcissistically banging on about themselves all the time and knocking out a few crap articles and horse spunk food on't telly, not so much
 
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Not Now Bernard

remember when Peter Kay did his “my mum needs a bungalow tour” (you can see where I’m going with this) maybe Jack could do a “I need a Shitty bungalow tour” - she could read out some poetry, “potatoes” and tell her hilarious anecdotes involving blue tickers. I’m sure it will be a roaring success.
 
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Alansbigplate

Please can we have a bungalow of one’s own as a thread title?
 
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AmberSpyglass

I would pay to see her present the shitty bungalow with an explanation of what makes it shitty .

She could present the Smeg, the stairs, the big bed , the dressers and the art plus the Viv(RIP) https://giphy.com/ie8x0McRnaYGHhjCno
Damn, it isn’t the right Giph but you get the jist!
 
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Missmopps

Why would anyone want this kind of stuff on their wall? Unless, middle class hipsters in shoreditch?
 
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xoxo

I am very much not an expert either, but I think that photographer you've linked uses lighting and colour REALLY well. Like, those photos are truly breathtaking. They are an expert in food photography, imho. Some of those photographs look like they're inspired by paintings in terms of their composition and use of light/dark, and actually those with the really dark backgrounds remind me of the more recent M&S adverts in style - lots of focus on the lushness of the ingredients. If I tried to copy those images, I wouldn't get anywhere near the result that photographer has got - food photography is really tricky.

Jack's work is not as sophisticated, not by any stretch. However, I do think there are a few similarities in terms of composition - hands holding a bowl for example! There will be other tricks like the "rule of thirds" that I'm sure Jack uses too - this is really basic photography stuff.
 
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Oofadoofa

She sounded so posh in 2014. Has clearly had a bit of time to work on that mockney accent..
 
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Booksareessential

Scotty1976 said:
I don't know about other medications but usually when changing anti depressants one is tapered down in dosage and another added gradually over week or 2 till on new pills .Also would expect to see cpn or go in this time to discuss any side effects
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I did stop anti- depressants suddenly - ran out, felt ok and didn’t get more. Not remotely under any medical guidance.
Then it went very pear shaped as I couldn’t handle normal life activities - I’m talking about making coffee or tea, making the bed, small transactional activities that don’t rely too much on the brain.I became very nervous and anxious and had very bizarre swings in vision or perception - can’t explain properly but it was freaky. Ended up with an emergency appointment at the GP who promptly put me back on anti- despressants. 48 hours later, back to normal.

The staggering part, I was on a low dose of a mainstream anti- depressant - no interaction with MH services at all at that time. I’m no longer on anti depressants ( came off on a very long withdrawal) and never experienced anything like it before or after.
 
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