Remembered I have free will. Went to my fav croissant bakery, my fav coffee shop and now enjoying the view by the waterfront. It’s the simple things in life. I love living in Seattle. I’d like to move while I’m still young but I’m not sure where I’d go…
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Was panicking over a potential lost envelope of money for a few bills. Ripping my room apart looking for it. Noticed an unfinished Momodi drawing with her showing all, lifted it thinking "Why is this in this pile?" and under it was the envelope I was looking for. Not sure if an omen or luck charm?
I said I'm not traveling this month. no in-person commitments the next four days, still live next to amtrak, & my instincts are darting to the amtrak app. BUT I need to settle in, sit in my discomfort, work on the book that I GET to write. it's a wild ride
My class caps went up, and I graded the most exams I've graded in well over a decade over the last week. Probably not unrelatedly, I had a nightmare last night about student besieging me with complaints.
So downside of travel: rental car dude didn’t tell me they were placing a hold on my card, and the group I’m in has decided to do things Expensively in an already expensive area. Instead of driving in Salem and paying for parking, they want to take public transportation and have everyone pay $20
I was jury on a murder trial for the past week and the whiplash of that -> back to work for two days -> visit friends in another city is some real time compression shit.
Thru events entirely my own fault, my laptop wound up locked in my day job office floor with my ID that would let me in to get it. So when teaching tonight, I had to just explain the 15 min video I was going to show and lead discussion from memory of what I had in my notes. Is today over yet? 🤦
So I'm leaving Miami after about 6 full days here, and sorry to say it but this city kind of sucks. It's early October and it's been like 90 degrees and 100% humidity every day I've been here. Of course I wanted to go out and see as much wildlife as possible, but
There is nothing like being in a frantic flow state, knowing you have 30 mins max to work on revisions to an essay before the baby wakes up only to be interrupted by repeated two factor authentication requests. 💀
A table fell over in the piano bar and of course, I leap over to move it upright. The weight of the table caused a chunk of granite to break off. Long story short, my finger has finally stopped bleeding from the cut. I don't know if it's the principal in me or what that's always taking charge.
I have booked flights for my Perth trip. Now I just have to figure out what to do in Perth for 6 days.
Well, it's actually over now. I'm no longer on Schrödinger's Holiday and am, in fact 100% properly unemployed. The former workplace is going with someone else for my old job which, y'know, sill is kinda humiliating in its own way. Still, there's always value in breaking away from these sorts of nebulous unknowns. It's going to be real shit moving forward but it's reassuring to know what it is that "moving forward" looks like and entails Tomorrow me is getting busy again u.u
I stayed in bed for a bit more cuddling with my wife and the cat feline mistress since it's starting to be quite chilly, and have no regrets. Now to grab a coffee and start my day at work :) A good morning to y'all, fedinauts #GoodMorning
It is absolutely wild that I get to look in the mirror and see a cute girl staring back.
One of the 5-year-old’s soccer coaches is out of town so I filled in at practice tonight. Most humbling 45 minutes of my life. Broke up two crying scuffles over the orange cone. Some blood. Never really reestablished possession. I need to lie down for a while.
remembering my work told us we need to bring clean clothes when we work and have to look nice and clean our shoes... I work dish and ya'll have me scheduled 4 times a week... I can not clean my clothes constantly but it's only for work and I clean them every week... I hope they aren't too strict about food stains bc I am not running my laundry twice a week... I have 3 flatmates and I'm busy...
It is 6° outside and all my scarves bar this one are 80 miles away at my parents’ house 🥲
K3's birthday: is on Tuesday Partner and me, three weeks ago: okay, let's do K3's birthday party on Thursday, because partner has to work on Tuesday and K2 has football practice on Wednesday K2's football practice: is cancelled Partner: has to go to a medical appointment with his mother on Thursday Me: 😬
I sound like a broken record at this point, but there's still no tap water in my flat 🥹 My neighbour is so kind! she let me use her dishwasher and even allowed me to make a cup of coffee for myself 😊
babiest decided at 9:30pm last night that she was Awake and this sentiment continued until 1:45am ish (i lost track after that)… and then woke up at 6am 😫 thank god i can be 省エネモード today because i’m half dead right now 🧟♀️
coming to remember that midweek vacations are a lot more relaxing than long weekends when it comes to email hell went to Nikko and it was gorgeous!
Ugh, stuff happening today I really don’t want to happen. I started off being very happy about it, but the more I thought about it the less I liked it. At least I may be a bit less stressed out once it’s done with. The joys of over-thinking! Sorry for being so cryptic, and being a whinge bag. Just needed to get stuff off my chest. And it’s raining, too ☹️
It was warm and very bright outside today and there were Meetings and Decisions and Phone Calls. So now me and my kid are curled up in my dark bedroom and watching separate screens, as is the way of tired autistics.
So there were 9 of us for dinner, which was smaller than I'd expected. The food was fantastic and the place had a spectacular view of the river. My boss's boss's boss ended up sitting right next to me, which was a little anxiety-provoking, though she was very personable.
Anyway I barely slept last night so trying to enjoy the day as best as I can before flying to London tomorrow
I went out to dinner with some people in my cohort tonight and they asked me what my special interests were. I literally struggled to answer, no one has asked me that before and cared enough to mean it. I really need to rediscover myself tbh
i've been to þe library every day for like þe past two weeks or someþing and i'm feeling quite exhausted. i'll take a day off
last night i dreamt that i rented a car through some sort of uber thing where the deal was, you'd pick up the car, leave it wherever, and the next person would pick it up from there. i got stranded in a dust storm but then saw a sign that said "bagshot row" and was like "oh i'll just go visit bilbo"
So tired today. We've had two nights in a row of works happening on and around the local tram stop in the middle of the night. The first night was almost bearable, last night was far worse as they'd moved to the end of the stop nearer our window. Had to wear earplugs. City life! Hopefully it's […]
my body is a machine that turns 3-4 conversations with cool people into happiness for the rest of the day
Had a realisation today. The thing where I rush around and always look super busy is actually a bit of a defence mechanism against actually having to do small talk etc. Hadn’t even realised I was doing that.
Although I allowed myself to be fed up and just deleted the machine without moving the followers because I'd had enough
Finally the fallen tree in my backyard gets removed today. There’s an overall larger job but I can only afford the main removal. Of course getting everything else done, it’d be cool if there were some gigs I can do
I had a dream that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social had sent me a tiny unpainted pewter wizard, and an engraved mystical coin. These were apparently me being called up to the big leagues, and I was panicking because I've not done serious improv ever. But then I lost the coin, so it didn't matter.
it's #SpookySeason and it's supposed to be in my personal life...not at #work. #LifeWorkBalance
Forcing myself to not check my phone as much or feel compelled to post my every reaction to news, what I watch, and what I play has helped over the last week. I had an endless feeling of people looking over my shoulder because of how I was using social media.
2 days to the DNV! España here I come!
wow i've just disappeared for like 3 days
Sometimes I hate living in a city. It's a beautiful day and I want to sit outside on my porch but it's so loud out. Piercing noises and car sounds and sirens and idk man I just wanna enjoy a pretty day without needing noise cancelling headphones I guess
I do not like discovering too many things people haven’t noticed before because then insecure people put a sniper scope on me while I’m in the process of learning (and getting things wrong) as if that’s not a part of the process of finding out the correct answer
Today was the first of six days off for me. 😁 My birthday is on Friday and I am resolved to NEVER work on or even around my birthday. (In lieu of gifts, I will accept a Brewers win later tonight so I can spend Friday evening having a fancy dinner instead of going to Game 5. 😆)
Blä. I must away shortly. I had hoped to creep back into bed, but alas! A slug's work is never done. Perhaps upon my return. 🙄
Hey! Quick life update. Senester is still going. Just wrapped up my midterms (got one more major exam before finals next month) and things are calming down a little HOWEVER I am still burnt out. I've got a few more c0mm$ to do this month, but I may take the rest of the year off of doing paid work
The dream where I turn on the light in my bathroom and it doesn't come on.
Today was a bit of an experiment. I usually do *all* the things in the morning and manage to distract and then crash and burn early afternoon and get in a state. It was suggested I mess up my day a bit and do something a little later today hence only heading to BBI now. I am trying
Good evening everyone 🌆 It's been a mad busy day at work and I didn't even get time to wish you all a lovely day, so wishing you a lovely evening (or other time) now 💖
I got a free coffee at work yesterday but accidentally paid for it so the barista at the counter flagged me over on the way in and made me one for free to make up for it and then I accidentally paid for it again because I'm half asleep...
I didn't do much. But that's ok. Mental day.
tummy growling owo" i should eat something but it's just so hecking late i did eat when i got home but i don't think that was enough uwu"
Me, on phone: Yeah sorry, can't come out for drinks, something super important just came up at work last minute Me, *continues googling floorplans of famous cartoon character’s homes because I just 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to know where all the rooms are in relation to one another*
