Places (12 out of 12)

volunteer

This means I'm out helping with something. Could be regularly scheduled time at an animal shelter, or helping a friend move house. The important thing is, I'm probably busy so don't expect me to respond to you.

transit

Travelling between places. Could be walking, in a car, on a plane. Sometimes I stop at a shop or run some errands in the process.

seminar

I'm at some kind of talk or seminar, or other event that involves sitting in a room listening to someone smart, without qualifyinig as a meeting or event.

other

On an adventure

I changed the label for '/other' to 'on an adventure' to make my life sound more exciting.

This might mean I'm out exploring somewhere, visiting someone, doing anything that doesn't fit into one of the other location categories, or 'at home' somewhere that doesn't feel like home yet. It could also mean I just don't want to tell you where I am.

office

This is wherever I have an assigned desk, or available hotseat with a place to plug in my laptop that isn't home.

• 2018-02: Remote; libraries, cafes, hostels, co-working, for ODS.
• 2017-06 - 2018-05: OCCRP, Sarajevo
• 2015-10 - 2016-10: 5th floor Stata Center, CSAIL, MIT
• 2012-10 - 2015-09: Informatics Forum 2.35, University of Edinburgh
• 2011-09 - 2012-08: Alison House, University of Edinburgh

offgrid

Offgrid

I won't be logging anything during this time. I probably have no network connection.

meeting

Meetings may be in person, or digital. I may still be at home or office, but meeting overrides that.

medical

At a doctor's appointment or in a hospital

home

Home is where the hammock is

When I travel, I tend to feel at home very quickly in new places. When I leave a place, I rarely feel homesick, or miss it. As a result, I have many homes, and none.

When I check in at 'home' it probably means the place I sleep, watch Netflix, stock a fridge, and cook meals. Whether I consider a place 'home' is a function of how comfortable I feel, and how long I'm staying there. It could equally be someone else's house, a hotel or AirBnB, or somewhere I'm paying rent. I might switch the same place from '/other' to '/home' after a period of time.

• present: Fife, Scotland, for the time being...
• 2018-02 - 2020-10: nomadic, mostly central and eastern Europe
• 2017-06 - 2018-02: Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
• 2017-05 - 2017-06: nomadic, Malaysia, various Europe
• 2017-04: Perth, Australia
• 2017-03: Canggu, Bali
• 2016-12 - 2017-02: George Town, Penang, Malaysia
• 2016-10: Tokyo, Japan
• 2015-10-01: Boston, MA, USA
• 2014-06 - 10: London, UK
• 2011-09-15: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• 2010-06 - 09: London, UK
• 2008-09-04: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
• Mostly: Rural Lincolnshire, England, UK

food

I'm at a restaurant or cafe, grabbing a snack. If I'm here for a long time, it probably means I've found somewhere nice to remote work.

exercise

Move it move it

Likely running, yoga or swimming. Take other contextual clues from my feed to find out what.

event

A scheduled occurence of some kind, usually involving other people. Probably a conference, but maybe a party.