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.

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.

I got 2 callbacks from applications I put in yesterday!

Fuck yeah.

Fire drill! Yay paid time off work

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

Went into Aldi and forgot to buy apple strudel. The shame! The shame!

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...

Ah bugger, forgot my lunch in the hustle of getting the kids ready for school 😕 AND missed the bus 🙄

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

My plans of working next to the fireplace got nixed.

Due to unforseen circumstances I'm in a local office (that I can drive to) and two managers owe me huge favours.

At least it's warm here.

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 ($$$).

Really odd dreams the last few nights. Only remembering snippets.

The narratives are all over the place. Probably lines up with the resensitisation of my nervous system but still.

Edit: one of them was going to feed the strays but everything was different and it turned out it was 7am but the usual 4pm. Weird.

Alarm! Alarm! Nothing on Vic Emergency. No fucking clue, upsetting everybody

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

Pray for me this afternoon when I'm outside.

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?

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.

Hail! So much excitement today.

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I don't want to cook. Venturing into the wet ... in my Purple Wooly Cape!

Lattouf v ABC judgment this morning at 10:15. Unfortunately while ABC has come out of this looking terrible, I suspect they are probably right to be feeling a little less nervous at the outcome than Antoinette Lattouf.

I’m honestly exhausted. I think it’s bedtime

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.

No one in my team was in the office today so I had a sneaky extended lunch break to pick up my Rock Pi. I might try Home Assistant on it if there's a working image.

just a heads up for those into That Sort of Thing: Bunnings are tossing out the TPlink p100 and P150 smart sockets for 16 each, and yes they are fully compatible with home assistant and can run offline once you've set them up.

Just don't try to find them at the moorabbins bunnings, someone already cleared them out.

cough.

off to Bogong to buy some hiking boots.

stay warm guys😊

weather took me by surprise, had the wrong coat on, no hat , no gloves, thankfully I had on a big wool scarf

shopping went well, I got some boots that are pretty roomy so should be good for hiking in nz👍

( new make up palette did not work out, the silver eyeshadow looked so shiny and bright and light, put it on and it was a dull grey that really accentuated the dark rings under my eyes 😵‍💫)

and today I saw a gentleman wearing a bowler hat and a bespoke english cut suit

It is a porridge morning

Taking my books back to the library. I may spend the afternoon reading on the sofa

not too warm here, brr

Goodnight everyone, I'm tired as. Gonna do my usual and fall asleep now and wake up in the early hours..

I watch and read a lot of essays and pods and stuff about movie and tv and one thing I notice is that writers like to effusively write about all the influences and all the references to other works, books and movies and art, in a movie or show.

I would love to sit and discuss with an average real person who doesn't make tv or movies and we can find all the artistic and literary references they have spoken or written that day in the course of their everyday life.

because art is every where and in everyone's everyday lives, they just forgot

Had ticket inspectors on the tram do our tickets, get off at Anzac station, then a new crew of em got on at the next stop 🤣 be careful on st Kilda Rd today guys!

I’m so tired. Baby is still crying at night. I’ve ordered some more d mannose in the hope it might flush out her little bladder.

Ps. There’s apparently a high tide warning for Melbourne this morning so people in places like Port Phillip or coastal might want to be careful