Things aren't going well for me, unfortunately. Thanks to the big weather changes here, my already very bad chronic pain and depression have been waay worse, and of course, to top it off, I once again can't afford my medication refills. Such great timing! I reeeally, really, really do not want to have to make a mutual aid request post. I so thoroughly hate doing it and struggle with asking for accepting any help or money... But I've exhausted every other option. Being poor and disabled and chronically ill sucks so much. I'm so deeply tired of it and I don't know how much longer I can keep doing it. I don't know what to do. Ugh.

Thank you for asking and for giving me a place to whine. I sure hope your week is going much better! <3

Good. The work year is slowly winding down, and all my PhD students have finally hit their grooves, and taken more control in their projects. Personal life had also hit a really good groove as well. My friends group has expanded a lot and we host dinners at our apartments where we just gasbag, cook together and just let our hair down and enjoy life and each others company.

Best I can do this week is not dead. Which is alright.