Sent in the final draft… this time at a much more godly hour - it’s now down to the last round of very minor edits from my supervisor tomorrow and freedom is around the corner!
Evidence of how I’m clearly done with this is that for the first time in my life, I am actually under the word count (310 words even below the 10% margin) without even having tried to cut any words out. And I can’t be fucked just babbling on about anything else extra. I truly look forward to never posting about this ever again in the near future (I guess I will check my marks when they come out)
good luck 🍀
Treating myself for at least the next fortnight.
I’m gonna have to try this at some point, the weather calls for it. Report back with results?!
Right now I’m just scarfing down doritos as I can’t stomach anything warm and liquid-y.
This isn’t going to help but Woolworths have those large party size bags on half price at 4.40 I think for Doritos cheese.
Regular Doritos was at half price in Coles which definitely motivated my purchase. I’m maybe two hours away from finishing (working in spurts) and might cook some rice with one of these heat-and-eat vegetarian side dish thingos for a proper dinner to unwind with. I haven’t cooked in ages, it’s been hard on the wallet but a necessary timesaver - looking forward to feeding myself again soon
The servings are a lie.
I didnt look at it. Looks like 2 servings for me
💯💯💯💯💯
👁️🫦👁️
Mine all mine!
back from beach, it was cold, I should have had a scarf and gloves
my little local beach was very changed, the recent strong winds and high tides tore up most of the big vegetation/bushes and washed them inland, sand was pushed into the grasslands ,
some local roads were covered in sand and small stones
I saw a big spiral shark egg
oh wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a shark egg before!
that’s such a cool egg!!!
Never seen anything like that before.
That’s cool.
I was just thinking about you and hoping you were ok, because my “hometown” FB page showed footage of water over the road because very high tide and people driving through. Love the 🦈🥚
Thanks for thinking of me.
There was flooding all around me , luckily I’m on a high spot close to the railway station that never floods
aww 😳
Me? Did you get the wrong person?
Yes. I meant to respond to Seagoon 😔 sorry
Those shark eggs are so cool, they’re like an alien egg in real life. I’m surprised I haven’t seen something that used them for inspiration yet
I should have written it’s about 20 cm long! I am not sure which species as there are a few like this.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/science-environment/2018/08/the-weird-world-of-shark-eggs/
Presentation was a total clusterfuck - took waaaaay longer than I expected and absolutely bombed some of the questions asked - but at least it’s over and I will absolutely not dwell on what went wrong (although I have a bit of a pit in my stomach)
All I need to do now is finish up the penultimate version of this thesis for my supervisor to make final comments and then I’m submitting the damn thing tomorrow. Fuck, I’m just so done with this
e: delayed anxiety is making me feel increasingly nauseous, think I’m going to go outside for a bit of fresh air and maybe drop by the chemist
I’m not sure what your presentation was for, but as an academic who has watched many, many presentations, I guarantee yours was much better than you are imagining. I know this because a) people presenting in academic setting are way too hard on themselves, always, and b) because of a, everyome in academia is actually pretty cool about presentations.
Aw thanks. I appreciate it - it could’ve been a lot worse, but this legitimately was a “oh shit, my intro slides were still in draft phase” realisation 30 minute before the preso kind of thing, and I had exceeded my time limit not even halfway through the presentation. It’s easily the worst presentation I’ve given in my entire adult life, but I can kind of laugh at it now…
I got some softball questions that, due to total nerves, failed to completely understand at the time let alone answer coherently. But you’re right, everyone was nice enough about it, and although I’ll certainly get marks docked for rushing and going over time, I think the content was interesting enough for people to go “yeah that’ll do”. Nobody’s going to judge my worth on this thing. The thesis, otoh, might expose me as being academically anaemic - but I so don’t care because I have absolutely no interest in academia or doing any work in that sub-field!
That’s a big event out of the way, well done! You’re so close to getting this done, some deep breaths in the fresh air and you can do this!!
I can TASTE THE BEERS (or, in my case, the barrel-aged umeshu). Though this nausea is really doing a number on me hahahaha…
That sounds delicious!! Fingers crossed once you’re done, your body just lets out a biiiiig sigh of relief!
Hey, you’re almost done though!! Not long until the umeshu. <3
At least it’s done! Piece by piece this will be finished
Hey Kitten, sorry to hear that the presentation didn’t go as planned but at least you’ve done it and presented it.
Now you can move on to your thesis.
Make sure you give yourself some self care and maybe some nice food and a movie for the weekend.
Absolutely, it’s great to be just shedding layers of stress with this thing. I normally don’t work Fridays but booked in a site visit for work late tomorrow morning (could do with the money and replenish leave), so I have extra motivation to finish this tonight. Haven’t made any plans for the weekend beyond going to help my aunt with her never ending preparations to sell her place - I did guilt trip her into making a bit of extra food if she could, she’s a very good cook - and no plans otherwise but I have a lot of catch ups owing over the next few weeks. I’ve been on social lockdown with most friends and ready to reconnect!
I told my boss about my studying (complete career change) and how I would be leaving at some point. Told him about my last lot of annual leave was for my placements and I’d have enough leave for my next placement but after that I’d probably have to leave.
His response was: Don’t worry about taking leave for it. We’ll work something out.
I was umming and uhhing for months on whether I should tell him or not and decided yesterday to do it because it would then force me to decide how to approach studying/working instead of worrying about it. That went a whole lot better than I expected.
this is awesome
It’s always so good when you get support for life plans.
For real. I expected him to be ok with it, but the whole dont worry about AL thing was just completely out of left field. Relieves a lot of stress.
I accidentally put my Myki card in the wash with my jeans. Need to take PT tomorrow, do you think it’s going to work?
Yes, no problem. The washing machine will not affect the chip embedded within the plastic of the card.
I used to accidentally wash various cards over the years (is this money laundering? har har) and nothing happened, so you should be fine I reckon
possibly
I felt we were really cheated by autumn this year which is why winter feels much more miserable than before. It’s not even July and I’m already over this shit
Put the blinds completely down last night to get a truly good night’s sleep and it worked a bit too well, I’m struggling to get out of bed. But there is more reading and writing to do, and crucially, a presentation at 2 (that I have yet to rehearse)
At least I’m not feeling anxious like I was last night. I’m giving myself until 9:30 and then it’s action stations! 🦾
100% agree with autum.
It was too warm and then straight to winter.
No chance to enjoy the coolness for a proper amount of time.
I could tell because I went straight from summer clothes to rugging up like an Eskimo.
Went from shorts and t-shirt to trackies and hoodie, without the usual shorts+hoodie combo.
Turned the heating on very early this year.
Same, didn’t get much of a chance to just wear long sleeved clothes without additional layers or mid-weight jumpers etc. Just went straight from t-shirts to puffer jackets it seems like.
I go by 2 seasons. Good drying day and inside drying day.
I was just thinking that this morning, I felt like we didn;t really have a nice or decent amout of autumn this year.
2 more sleeps till the trip!
So fucking tired today. I could legit go to bed right now.
Found a great online learning platform for drums which I’m excited to start with. Organised some sessions with the new trainer for next week.
Had a phone interview which went OK.
Big day!
Drumeo looks good even if it’s paid. There’s heaps on YouTube from them
I don’t mind paying. Seems they get great reviews.
They have sales around Black Friday etc fyi
Aww man. That’s so good to hear.
I hope you have a great trip.
If you’re planning on driving you’re definitely going to need that rest.
Who is going to look after Gibson for you or are you taking her with you?
A trusted friend. They’ll hopefully have a good time :)
Aunt saw dog at the vet called banh mi. Don’t know what kind of dog it was, but shall report back.
Edit: it was a cavoodle
I had the pleasure of sitting through a nearly hour-long meeting today, that was entirely for the benefit of padding the presenter’s cv. Aargh!
WE’RE A TEAM!!
The new BBQ gas tubes have arrived. Happy days.
Inspection got moved to tomorrow morning, which is good because I’m still motivating my partner to tackle the bathroom 😂 then I have a lil vacay (as I’m thinking of it) over the weekend which will be nice. I’m bringing a book called We’ll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida - my Nan and Opa got it for me for my bday and I still haven’t read it despite hearing great things about it, I’m hoping this weekend will give me the motivation to start it!
I have a book the might be it’s pair Do Cats Need Shrinks?
more mental health bullshit
My twin sister is working a full-time job, has a mortgage, and is productive each day. She has a degree that’s viable and going to get her somewhere in the world.
But unfortunately, my first degree was in an interest area, which funnily enough, she started in it too. I did this degree with the plan of doing further study after, as it’s not very useful on its own unless you have a fuck ton of experience, and someone takes a chance on you from the beginning.
I just wish I was a functioning human being. I’m so sick of feeling everything x 1000 and being exhausted from the second I wake up. Yeah doing a masters degree is supposed to be tough, but the level of stress I’m experiencing is unjustified. I think during my next therapy session, I will speak to them about strategies for tolerating discomfort.
I am so lucky that I get to do this course, especially in a time where there is such a bigger focus on highlighting and solving inequities in this country than there has ever been.
I understand about the sibling situation. Mine was the golden child and I was not to put it mildly.
You can only compare yourself to who you were yesterday. I think that’s the way it works best.
I guess that makes us the silver children then. And I personally like silver better than gold 😀
I absolutely agree. Am trying not to compare myself.
I’m a participation trophy lol
Me too
In high school, I came last in a walking event, but I got a first place ribbon, because I was the only girl in my house group who did the event.
I never compared myself. What I did was let family members define me ( and it was never nice ) I listened to them because I trusted them like family.
it took me a long time to figure out to trust myself and not them.
Bronze child checking in!
🤪
so many hugs
just keep working at it and it should work out
💗💗💗
I think I’m feeling better now. Still a bit of a sniffle, but mostly fine. I’m out of bed, showered and even took Mr Woof for a walk (he is thrilled to have the daily walks again). Now I can hopefully get into gear to do a bit more unpacking - I’ve done the easy initial bits so it’s very tempting to keep putting off doing more. But it needs to be done and I’m a bit sick of all the boxes everywhere.
I had to drive to Williamstown yesterday to see the dental surgeon, which was absolutely horrid driving with the weather. But the good news is the implant has healed (implanted?) successfully, so I’m free to move on to the next phase of getting the crown. I might push that off into next year so I can get another insurance rebate for it, I’ve not got a lot of cash spare after all the moving costs.
Roast chicken is in the oven. It took a bit of looking through boxes to find a few vital components - most important being the baking dish. It’s the oven’s first roast, I’ve only used it for heating a pie before. It’s smelling pretty good. It’s a much bigger oven than I’m used to, which could be handy sometimes (but mostly I just use the little toaster oven/air fryer).
I’ve had a productive day. I’ve moved a few bits of furniture around and assembled a shelf unit that will hold a lot of the pantry/storage items. That section has been the cause of a bit of roadblock that stopped me doing things in other areas, so this should mean I can start getting a lot of stuff out of boxes and properly sorted out. Mr Woof was very unhappy with all the banging going on while the shelf was being assembled and evacuated to the back yard until things quietened down, but Miss Meow was right there wanting to be involved and investigating everything.
The small fenced off area around the back gate to store the bins in and keep the pets back is working very well. Amazingly the width of the panels fit across the gap between the house and fence perfectly so it looks like it was made for the spot. Hopefully it lasts ok in the weather, it’s designed for indoor use so it will probably rust out at some point, but if it can last me for a few years while I am here that will be ok.
Sounds like things are coming along nicely. Are you enjoying the new place and finding it comfortable?
It is starting to feel like home, which is a nice feeling. It is nice having everything new. The last place was old and not in the best repair, so no matter how much you cleaned things it never really looked that great.
Miss Meow seems to be liking the new space, she seems to really enjoy exploring any newly rearanged areas. She’ll probably be disappointed when it is finished. Mr Woof is still a bit unsettled, but I think he just needs a bit of time to get used to things.
