I’m currently suffering at work. Legally they are not obligated to give us 15 minute breaks. We can take “breaks” when there’s no chores or customers, and customers can walk in at any time, interrupting the “break”.
Hey everyone, I’m back! I’ve been off-grid for a year and a half bc I got a PhD position and didn’t want to lose it due to political background checks against “extremism” during the trial period (obviously these checks mostly got leftists fired -.-). It’s about a new way of mathematically tackling nonlinear PDEs and I’m extremely happy with it because I can finally apply my specialist knowledge towards something actually useful, at the forefront of research!
I’m sorry to hear that. Currently I’m hanging out with my wife, watching stuff but already dreading work tomorrow. Need to learn to be more in the moment and leave it behind when I’m not there. Hope your shift goes quickly and easily for you.
I feel that. You enjoy most of your day then you see the time and go “ugh, soon I’ll have to sleep for work tomorrow…”
Watching Olympics. Being Dutch this means watching (speed) skating as it is the only thing we win at. But the upside is that we win nearly everything there.
Planted some new stuff on my balcony garden today. Going for a (mostly) native cottage garden container with a main function of attracting bees and butterflies. I have several other containers with natives and wanted to spice some things up. Also made a bee hotel last week to give them a resting place.
Rest of my time goes to working out.
That’s nice. I am afraid that I am too incompetent to keep plants alive, but I hear that succulents are easy to take care of.
I’ve been terribly sick for over 10 days already. I’m taking antibiotics now, and mostly staying at home. But I keep getting out from time to time to bring food and other stuff to the indigenous occupation at the local headquarters of Cargill, the American company. The occupation is already 30 days strong with hundreds of people.
Besides that, I’ve been reading/watching stuff from Cowbee’s (now old) study guide. And coughing my lungs out, unfortunately.
The last time I had the flu I was bedridden for what felt like two weeks. Even without a fever, I could not go to work because if I walked from my bed to the bedroom next door, I would get light-headed. I hope you make a speedy recovery now that you’re taking antibiotics!
Just tested both the kids for COVID/FLU A&B. Both came up negative thankfully, but we’ll probably test again tomorrow if they still have fevers. We’re gonna watch Avatar the rest of the afternoon.
The blue kind of the elements kind?
Element kind. Yip yip!
Good choice! Quench your thirst with cactus juice!!
praying you get off work soon comrade.
im just getting litty off the penjamin and chilling. day off so i dont wanna do much else after running errands
Relatable
A small project, plus uh, subtitling movies stuff, to pass the time.
I love subtitling, whenever I’m in the mood. What kind of project? 👀
Eh a project on Albinism. Just 4-5 pages to write of it.
It’s 11 PM on a Saturday. I’m enjoying the only stress free time in the week by watch some old anime.
Which anime?
RahXephon. I had seen episode 1 previously and liked it, but put in on a metaphorical shelf for later. That time is now.
Oh its a good one, basically Neon Genesis Evangelion but with Nahuatl myths instead of Abrahamic ones and a happy ending.
Reading this thread. :P
I’ve been fiction writing more lately, some novel-length project ideas brewing mostly in my head at this stage, but still haven’t nailed down what I want to commit time to. I’ve long wanted to do a fictional representation of revolutionary struggle that is not, like… derailed by things like liberal idealism, “great man theory” over-emphasis on a “hero” main character, skating over the details and downplaying how much logistical complexity goes into it, using it as a cheap vehicle for a romance plot, stuff like that. Various problems that have plagued me in past story drafts of one concept or another. My standards are probably a bit high, but in general, I want it to be something that inspires and teaches people meaningfully, rather than being so divorced from reality that it might as well be about dragons and magic. Cause if all it’s gonna end up as is entertaining, I might as well go for a concept that’s easier for me to write than something I’ve never actually lived through (a successful revolution).
That is interesting. I like to write too, but it is less deep than yours haha. I hope you write something great. I know the hardest part of writing is thinking of what to write about.
Thanks, I wish you the best with your writing as well. And yeah, the blank page can really be intimidating, as some people put it. The interesting thing is when I briefly had a job that involved writing, the format of it had me doing more setup on plot and characters than I’d normally tend to do, but I think it also made a difference in allowing me to sort of “improvise on guidelines” rather than get lost in unguided twists and turns.
Procrastinating late at night. Don’t want to sleep yet, nor really up to do something serious.
Relatable
Not going to bed :3
Looking into an april fools I want to do.
Planning two months in advanced?? I respect it
Bored and doomscrolling
Waiting on my hair to dry so I can go to bed. At the time you wrote this, either sauteeing trinity or meat I had in the freezer from Christmas, or at the grocery picking up other things, or pressure cooking the meat, trinity, and other things for dinner. Hopefully have enough to last for several days.
What is trinity?
https://easycleancook.com/what-is-the-holy-trinity-in-cooking/
Bell pepper, onion, celery, in this instance.
Ohhh okay I have heard of this before
Chilling by reading mostly, playing some video games.
I’m also mentally preparing for a job interview on tuesday, with four family members coming to help. I guess I’ll talk more about it after it happens.
You got this! Fighting!!
Relaxing on a day off! Mostly doing chores with my spouse.
