{"id":1458,"date":"2022-01-13T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2022-01-13T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:19:03","slug":"girls-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2022\/01\/13\/girls-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls on film"},"content":{"rendered":"

You will remember, in the Before Times, how Professor Robert Kelly\u2019s interview with the BBC was photobombed by his children<\/a> (and how ninja-ly his wife, Jung-a Kim, rounded them up).<\/p>\n

Even then I thought how very humanizing was this little cameo, and that it would be great if we could see more of this sort of candid behaviour.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a couple of years and we\u2019ve all been there of course. With working from home sweeping across the world, those of us lucky enough to be able to do so have had our fill of dodgy internet connections, \u2018You\u2019re on mute\u2019s, animals being inappropriate and offspring-ish interruptions\u2014both sides of the Zoom\/Teams\/Chime (delete as applicable) window.<\/p>\n

And the reaction to such \u2018interruptions\u2019, in my experience, has been uniformly of the \u2018don\u2019t worry\u2019\/\u2018we\u2019ll be here when you get back\/\u2018awww\u2019 variety. I\u2019ve even seriously considered coaching Joshua to come in and be cute while I\u2019m on a pitch. Every little helps, right?<\/p>\n

So why do people still worry about it? School\u2019s closed or your childminder has COVID or whatever it is, there\u2019s no need to feel bad for having to dash off to rescue a toddler or the fact that your child has had the temerity to come into your home\u2019 office\u2019 and poke their little face into your webcam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We honestly don\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n

In fact, I love it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For those of us who are working mostly from home it reminds us that our colleagues, many of whom we may have hardly met over the last two years, are still the people they were, far deeper and interesting and real than you\u2019ll ever see on screen.<\/p>\n

It reminds us that we are in the middle of a world-changing event, that we\u2019re doing the best that we can, and that we all could do with caring a little more for each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, please, don\u2019t feel you have to apologize for being human when your home life interrupts your work.<\/p>\n

We get it. We accept it.<\/p>\n

But those endless pictures of cats on keyboards? You can stop that nonsense right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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