Thursday, September 30
Laugavegur, 19:10
I had another very disturbed night. I woke up with a very dry throat. Others have complained about this and I suspect the air conditioning (which does not turn off) has a role to play.
Today Christa ran the morning session and I realised that everyone else had united around a consensus that I neither shared not saw any value in. We seemed to have agreed to do a series of tasks that made no sense at all because once upon a time in the distant past they had seemed like a possibly good idea. Now we could see that they made little or no sense but we needed to continue to do them because we had, sometime in the past, agreed that we would.
I did not feel arrogant enough to have complete confidence in my view and so I spent the morning with my head spinning trying to work out if I had missed something important, or everyone else had.
After lunch we had a summing up meeting that didn’t and then people set off in different directions. Britt and Helen set off to rent a car to drive to the shopping mall and then to the airport tomorrow. Micke and Maira set off to get a taxi to the shopping mall. Christa went to teach some students online. Hafdis and Vera went for a walk downtown.
I went upstairs to finalise and package tomorrow’s podcast, the final episode of series 2 of Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse. I looked through my photographs for the week and found this one of an Airstream trailer turned into a Chinese restaurant. I photographed it as we walked along Laugavegur on the way to Reykjavik Kitchen on Tuesday evening.