Email subject line: “Order Your Custom Branded Diaries for 2025 Now!”
OH HELLS NO. I’ve barely entered 2024. Geeezzzus
2025 sounds made up.
A conspiracy of diary makers, I tells ya!
Excuse me? It’s still 2020
Every fule nows it’s 1986. 👍
2016 was only 4 years ago as far as I’m concerned 🤷♂️
But where is the future I was promised. No flying cars, no aliens, no mega volcano, no zombies, and my clothes do not look remotely futuristic. I guess we have had a viral apocalypse (biological), and viral apocalypse (technological) can’t be too far away with the progress of AI and cyber warfare.
I need to know what outfits to plan. Are we doing the Walking Dead or Mad Max?
Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going
The words work and social do not belong in the same sentence.
Especially if you’re so not popular that nobody notices you’re missing
The secret is to never be known enough for people to notice
Oh. My. God…i fucking hate ArcMap…daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stupid process for customising a leyer for a better shape file…daaaaaaaaaah
Bah
Still stuck on ArcMap?! You have my deepest condolences…
It’s just so terribly shit
I seem to have flipped my sleeping around to the other extreme. Now rather than sleeping at 6am, I’m sleeping at 6pm. God at this point I feel like the only time I’m happy sleeping is if I’m bucking social norms and sleeping like a madman. Besides it being an odd time to go to sleep, it hasn’t been working too badly for me, especially since it’s dark by those times these days. Unfortunately I forgot to tell Alexa that I took the bins out so she started making noise at 8:30 yelling at me to take the bins out (bin day was yesterday, but the reminder goes off every 24hrs til I mark it complete)
Can’t get back to sleep, but I’m too tired to get up and try again in a couple of hours
Regarding bins: I miss having a garbage chute, or wheelie bins to take to the curb. My apartment building has a dumpster room downstairs but I have to lug my bags of trash and kitty litter down too it. I have no idea when “bin day” is anymore, and taking recycling down is a pain.
Try to rest if you can, and keep a good sleep schedule. It’s too easy to slip into bad sleeping habits.
Oh god I tried spicy chicken ramen. My lips! They are ACTUALLY on fire.
🧯
now for an old old song
winchester cathedral -csny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7phwtRjUA
Is anyone here a teacher/recently completed their education degree? I have a question about practicum placement.
This may be only applicable to Swinburne Online but figure I’d ask anyway.
Currently, I do 2 units a trimester and find that comfortable enough with balancing a full time job and a part time child. I’m planning the next few years to get an idea on course work, which units are available in which trimester, etc, and in between all that I have the practicum placements.
Regarding the placement, I’m looking at the unit info and its a full 12 week unit, with 20 days placement and 2 assessments (with 0% weighting - makes no sense, typo or whatever) and was wondering how intense this unit might be because I was thinking if I can squeeze it into a trimester and have 2 units plus the placement unit I can shorten my study plan to get my degree from mid-2028 to early 2028 or even end of 2027.
Hopefully this makes sense.
(also no idea how I am going to get 20 days off x 4 placements with work but that’s another matter.)
Has anyone watched Dark Matter yet? I think this is the first time a book has been turned into a movie or show and i’ve actually read the book first. And I gotta be honest, I kind of hated the book so I’m curious to hear what people think of the show.
I’ve seen the ads for it and I am not enticed to start an account on whatever streaming service it’s on, I forget which. There’s a quote on the ad that makes me cringe super hard: “what if the person who trapped me here… is me?!”
Apple I think. And yeah I think that makes sense in the context of the book, but they sort of ruined half the plot in the trailer which is dumb AF.
Re-watching The Expanse…such a good show.
Really keen on adding Belta-lingua into my everyday’s vocabulary.
Belta-lingua is the language spoken by those born and raised in space aka Belters, for those who aren’t familiar with it.
It’s the Klingon of the 2010’s
Here’s to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. We’re waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him… would’ve been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didn’t have a good feeling about it, that I felt that there’d be problems for him given the issues he’d had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new school‽ I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. I’m trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and it’s hugely frustrating, but she doesn’t give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and it’s depressing. I’ve been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the “comedy” category… maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.
so many hugs to you all
use all the social workers at the hospital
I’ll keep that in mind Seagoon 💜
Sounds like it’s gonna be rough for a while. You can vent here anytime. We gotcha. I very much hope the tests all come back negative. But shit happens. And if it does, there are very good treatments these days and Peter Mac is world class, no better place to be. You’re doing brilliant with the minipeelers. Other people will always have opinions, but you know their needs best. And if you decide the offer of money is helpful, take it without hesitation, do whatever you think is best for the minis. The politics can be worried about later. As for Netflix, I can recommend 3 Body Problem for the dystopian genre. For comedy there’s heaps of older movies on there sometimes old school comedy is a good remedy to modern American humour. Although The Good Place is an exception, thats one of my favourite shows of recent years.
Older comedy, of course! Thanks for your kind thoughts and for the recommendation 👍
That is a nightmare week 😔
Wishing Mr P all the best for the test results, I can’t imagine how stressful that would be 💜
You’re totally justified in being frustrated at MIL’s belated benevolence. It’s nice she’s offering to help, but not helpful when she’s offering!
I went through a phase like Miniest and grew out of it — mostly anyway.
Before you know it, she’ll be 40, and you’ll laugh as you recount a story about a crazy thing she did when she was a teenager.
Take care 💜
Thanks AJ 🫶
It sounds like you’ve got an awful lot on your plate. Just keep swimming mama, your strength is a beacon for your family.
Thankyou eagle 🛟⚓
I’m so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.
I’ll keep it in mind thanks Melba 🙂
Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, you’re the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. I’m sorry you’re going through all of this, it’s hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, I’m available. It sounds like you need some serious “me time”. Sending you all my love and postive energy 💜
Thankyou spud 🫶
Went out with mein liebe for a few beers and a pub meal. Now home getting into the aldi wine we bought. Got a dr appt on Monday for my MC script so hopefully I can feel rested; the night terrors and sleep debt are killing me.
Wheeeee!
so many hugs
I can feel the rain coming, this does not bode well.
In other news it’s nearly clock off time!
wth, it’s not just rain, the temp has plummeted
Rain? Wasn’t the sun here an hour ago?
The sun has now liquified and is falling from the sky. My vague plans to do some gardening this afternoon have definitely been shelved.
I did see it was due to rain today so I skipped watering yesterday
Trying to find some small comfy masks to wear at work all day. Was surprised how little there is available at chemist warehouse and Priceline.
Wrestling with the idea of heading off for a weekend adventure. Staring at the map but can’t think of where to go.
I feel like something in the mountains would be nice but only if I can find a good book to start on because I’m currently between books. I’m not sure if I loved the first Discworld book I read.
assume you’ve read the expanse? I LOVED those books. the martian is also a great (if obvious) suggestion.
If it wasn’t likely to be so wet, I’d recommend Lake Tarli Kaarng. Have to hike in and out though. Better keep that one in mind for summer methinks.
Have you been to Howqua Hills? You could stay in Mansfield or Jamieson and head in from there. Absolutely stunning.