Hold on to your hats and stay warm!
I’ve achieved my dream finally.
Playing drums to my own guitar tracks.
I can’t explain how fucking cool this is, even as a fairly shit drummer lol
My advice is more cowbell. It’s not great advice though.
Hey good on you! You don’t have to be John Bonham to enjoy making music.
I got 2 callbacks from applications I put in yesterday!
Fuck yeah.
yay 😊
Go you!
Oohh that’s good news!
Hell yeah! Simon is a wanted man! How did the CEO chat go?
It was OK. He’s a nice guy but he’s too far up to relate to what’s happening in middle management.
We’ll see how these interviews pan out.
I really didn’t want to start another goddamn probation but here we are.
Nice!
Went into Aldi and forgot to buy apple strudel. The shame! The shame!
💔
🍎🥧
JC. You had one job.
I’m going to try but I’ve run out of freezer space
It’s warmed up to a barmy 8C here, beating the forecast high of 7C. Luckily I have a roaring fire and I am toasty.
That looks lovely, enjoy!
My manager is giving me the silent treatment.
Jesus christ lol
I’ve got a meeting with the CEO this afternoon to have a casual chat. A meeting I requested. So let’s see how this plays out.
I resigned from a job yonks ago and the whole senior leadership team of the not-particularly-big org gave me the silent treatment for my whole notice period. I was pretty junior and they’d been treating me like shit, it can’t have been surprising that I was leaving. Such strange people. It was very primary school.
Good luck with the meeting! And with the job hunting!
I can’t understand people like that and how they even end up as managers. Such shitty behaviour. Hope your casual chat goes well!
omg, how old are these people?
I’m gonna guess no older than 12
Actually, my 12 year old cousin has more maturity than that
So lower it to 7 or 8
I don’t get how adults can be so catty.
It’s crazy your immediate manager would do that. I hope something comes around for you soon.
How did it go?
I decided to take a deep breath, steel myself and have a look through my supervisor’s revision - half the intro was basically rewritten but it does at least flow better and the points made aren’t substantially different. The discussion needs a big boost though. It’s doable. But I’m leaving it to tomorrow. For now, I am going to have a nice hot dinner of paratha and some super spicy prawn curry, have a hot shower, and then burrow in bed to do some nyt word puzzles with brown noise until I fall asleep.
Tomorrow’s game plan is 1. Finalise my slides with the improved logic flow from thesis; 2. Rehearse slides to make sure I’m not way over time; 3. Do some writing and reading if I have time; 4. Presentation of doom; 5. Continue writing
There’s some real gremlins in my brain playing the old classics on repeat from bad academic experiences of the past but I ain’t giving them a voice today. There’s work to be done once this is all over, for sure.
Deadline is technically Monday but supervisor also thinks I can get this across the line before COB Friday so we’re gonna fucking do it and I can truly relax on the weekend
sounds like your supervisor is on your side 😊
Fire drill! Yay paid time off work
drill is sad :(
Argh, supervisor has already done a very quick review of thesis. I’m way too brain dead to look at it today and take on the emotional damage - I’m going to go to bed early tonight and have another crack tomorrow morning before prepping for the preso in the afternoon. Apparently I still do need to add more references and beef up the discussion but I also kind of don’t wannaaaaaa. I’m so done with reading dense academic articles about stuff I don’t really care that much about…
I can feel the freezing air coming through the window of my home office. It’s very gentle but it’s there. I think it’s more obvious today because of how cold it is and maybe the direction of the wind is the right angle of south as this is a south-facing room. Must counteract with heating ($$$).
Got my first offering from the local wild magpies today in the form of a finger lime.
Looking for any tips on how to teach them what credit cards look like and why they’re a better offering. Should I pretend to eat a credit card next time they’re here or something?
They might do better with diamonds. They’re meant to like shiny things, it’s just convincing them to share nicely.
Diamonds are worthless though when you try and resell, you only are offered the weight in gold of the ring they’re on. First hand experience.
So I’d need to train them to pull off the worlds greatest diamond heist of all time to steal an actually rare one. Any tips on that?
teach them what $2 coin or bank notes look like 👍
Even I don’t know what those look like anymore
Finger lime😃 I love those things! Maybe I can teach corvids in my area to bring me some 🤔
Eat oyster
I’d prefer yours to those delivered by magpies, despite the Santa debacle.
Magpies’ are the freshest, straight from the ocean as the pie flies
Started making dinner at 7pm, bad idea. Just sat down after getting through dish mountain and cleaning up around the place. I made chicken katsu curry for the first time, will be adding that to my stale dinner rotation.
I’m honestly exhausted. I think it’s bedtime
Loads I could be doing at work but my brain Just. Doesn’t. Want. To.
Felt so cranky that I even went and sat in my car in my lunchbreak so that no one could talk to me.
Pretty sure it’s the weather’s fault! Might go for a swim tonight and see if that cheers me up at all.
I feel that. Sometimes you feel like there’s so much you should be doing that you do nothing. Or you end up working on the least important thing. Or you’re getting things done but it doesn’t feel like you’re getting anything done.
Pray for me this afternoon when I’m outside.
Between the weather and not nearly enough sleep I’m completely phoning it in today. Fuck me I don’t know why they insist on cracking the window open slightly while having the reverse cycle on in the office, I get that it’s stuffy but this is really defeating the purpose
Stops the windows from fogging up.
