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 🍀
I have decided to cook curry for themy next wave of meals which a lot of chicken and some veggies.
Mild Butter Chicken curry it will be!
I eat berries straight out of the punnet, no washing. Am I a savage? Maybe. But the raspberries I just ate were particularly delicious.
I dunno, washing is a good opportunity to check for needles
I wash raspberries…then quietly eat them one by one while they are drying so they never usually even make it to the fridge
I only wash strawberries. There’s no logic involved, it’s just what happens. Haven’t died yet.
Yeah you are.
You’ll most likely be fine. Just don’t think how many people handled them before consumption.
Definitely not a savage.
It’s important to wash your fruit and veg because of 2 words. Dick hands.
I think arse hands are far worse, but valid point.
Shudders
Lonch
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.
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.
Went from shorts and t-shirt to trackies and hoodie, without the usual shorts+hoodie combo.
Turned the heating on very early this year.
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 :)
The new BBQ gas tubes have arrived. Happy days.
Welcome back YarraByte, hope you’re feeling ok. It’s a bit of a nasty bug that’s been going around.
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!!
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!
Hey, you’re almost done though!! Not long until the umeshu. <3
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!
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!
At least it’s done! Piece by piece this will be finished
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?
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
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Mine all mine!
The servings are a lie.
I didnt look at it. Looks like 2 servings for me
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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.
Work so far has not destroyed me, but there is still time!
Mine is trying today, but We Continue.
