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OH HELLS NO. I’ve barely entered 2024. Geeezzzus

Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going

Oh. My. God…i fucking hate ArcMap…daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stupid process for customising a leyer for a better shape file…daaaaaaaaaah

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

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.

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.

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!

I can feel the rain coming, this does not bode well.

In other news it’s nearly clock off time!

Rain? Wasn’t the sun here an hour ago?

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.