14 Days

In November 2020, I spoke to someone who was stranded overseas, desperately trying to make it back to Australia. Today, I find out what happened.

I exchange notes on the quarantine experience with someone on a comparable, but faraway, island.

As I wonder what became of a staple of the Australian airport experience, I talk to someone I knew a long time ago—about Brisbane, about comedy, and about Australia.

It’s down to four teams for my AFL pick. As I watch their games and try to find something to latch on to, however, a familiar foe appears.

As I see the end in the distance, it’s time to look beyond. It’s also time to make some very important Melburnian decisions.

Things are getting a little loopy… so why not lean into it? I set myself a musical challenge and spend a whole day making all kinds of fun noise.

In which I wonder if Aphex Twin and Vladimir Nabokov were correct.

It’s hard not to get stuck in a loop in quarantine. I talk to an unwitting veteran about the good, the bad, and the utterly ridiculous. And about whatever helps us to get through the day.

It’s Census Day in Australia—whether you’re at home, on the road, or in quarantine—and I think about what it means to be counted.

I get to the bottom of a mystery, and talk about some of life’s other lows.