Hi everyone! A day later than usual this week with the holiday and all. Got anything fun and exciting going on you want to share? Anything especially good happen to you lately?
Remember you are loved! :stalin-heart:
For my own part, tour is fully booked for august/sept now, and even more exciting - I HAVE NOT TAKEN A SINGLE MILLIGRAM OF PHENIBUT SINCE LAST FRIDAY! You are all welcome to join me in flexing on Jordan Peterson here, as its not often I get to flex on anyone. Anecdotally (since there arent any good studies), this weekend could be hell for me as it takes about a full week for WDs to ramp up, but fuck that I've got this.
Doing really well! Following things happened this week
- Survived a layoff at job#1, job#2 is going slow and steady
- Finished building my home gym
- Got my driveway put in finally, just need my yard to be done and then we can fence the yard and finally let the dogs out to play
- Got a development environment set up for lemmy so I can finally start contributing to get hexbear back on upstream lemmy, hope to start actually coding this week.
My job recently moved from a proper office to a WeWork. I hate it. Hate hate hate. Tiny space with four people. Temperature is always either too hot or too cold.
I'm trying to channel that hate into searching for a new job, but it's like the life is being drained from me.
Aye, solidarity. We've been back in the office 4x/week for a while now, and it's got me looking too (not that I haven't already been looking for over a year now). Good luck! Something new and better will come along!
Thank you. Job hunting is soul-sucking (intentionally), but it's just a matter of sticking around until your number comes up. Every molecule of serotonin helps!
Really hoping we get this place we're applying for. Rent is decent for the area and there' beautiful nature literally right out the back door.
two years of online classes have made me not very social, so today i spontaneously asked some classmates if they wanted to do a movie night and they said yes :party-cat:
we're watching back to the future tomorrow, never seen it before :cat-vibing:Trying to find jobs for the first time, not having the most success but still trying :akkommunism:
You do got this! If it starts feeling bad, maybe boot up cytube and have a convo with your comraderinos?
I have been hanging on CyTube more often lately! Great place to spend a quiet Saturday morning with the comrades.
Doing. Started new medication a few weeks ago (Concerta, a Ritalin-like kinda thing) and I feel like I am able to focus a bit better. Almost done with my semester at work so, things are looking up.
Having so much trouble writing anything, tho, and I have a deadline coming up at the end of July (working on a rather massive TTRPG adventure module/book with a grant from the local tourism office). I haven't set a word on page for about a month now; basically just thinking of writing fills me with dread.
Everything's chill otherwise, lol
Glad to hear the meds are helping! Can relate on the writing - band has been working on a big concept piece based on At The Mountains of Madness for a while, but its SO HARD for me to write even a single song.
Thanks!
And, I don't know if you are talking about writing music or lyrics, but one thing that helped me greatly when I was working on Lovecraft-related projects was putting some Cryo Chamber stuff in the background (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pZbPNpLhI). I was mainly writing creative fiction but, when it comes to music, I find that improvising over anything that sounds like what I'd like to do helps get the juices flowing when I start a writing session.
The Cryo Chamber stuff is great! And yeah, just music. We're doing some work on another drone piece tonight, so putting a pin in that for now, but I still feel like it just takes me too damn long to get anything out - and when I do think of a solid idea, the question becomes "where does this go? what do we do with it?"
The local tourism office gave you a grant to work on a TTRPG thing? How'd you get those two to connect?
Basically I am working on a Berlin - The Wicked City type of thing set in my hometown in the 1930s. Since it is heavily researched and will involve historically significant characters, it qualifies as promoting local culture/history and, thus, they offered me some money they'd gotten from the government for that type of project.
The element that sealed the deal, tho, is the interactive map I am working on on WorldAnvil where people will have access to a re-creation of my hometown in the 1930s.
Yooo! Congrats on your time. It’s anodyne bullshit that isn’t stupid bullshit, but… one day at a time… It’s always nice to see comrades checking in on their comrades. Thanks for making threads like this on the regular.
Love ya, Corgo
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Love you too comrade, and thanks for the kind words! :soviet-heart:
I'm doing pretty good. I got a new job which seems pretty fine so far and it's a big relief to feel less unstable financially. I'm hoping I can save some money to take my partner on a surprise trip in the winter since they've been so supportive.
It's pride month so hopefully there are some fun parties
My dog is working hard at her training, every day is a battle but she's doing her best and it's not her fault she had a terrible life as a stray before getting a family.
I stopped picking / biting my nails out of anxiety and now they're long and gorgeous and easy to paint
My partner is working at a gender clinic as of recent and is finding it fulfilling to aid in zapping people with the bimbofication / chadification ray gun
All good things, so glad to hear it! Congrats on the new job!
i finished the last Poppy War book and i'm awful disappointed. i feel like the author really ran outta steam and kinda limped and rushed to the end. which makes me sad cause i got awful invested thru book 1-2
also disappointing is slight spoiler
spoiler
no-body ever actually kisses you cant fukin talk about how pretty everyone is and how they wanna kiss each other and love each other but never actually show it? cmon man
bummer bummer stuff ive been talking about these books so much and pouring my freetime into them only to be disappoint. :sadness:
Thanks! It's been a fuck, but I'm more than ready for my brain to repair itself and start cooperating with me again. Appreciate the kind words! :stalin-heart:
Got a couple new coworkers in the past week, off to a good start interpersonally and I've already started a teeny bit of agitating.
Found a house where a comrade used to live and its price had been slashed to less than 1.5x my gross annual earnings. Might buy it.
It's been a while since I cooked something good, I think I might make a big batch of ramen or a curry dish. Told a coworker I'd bring everyone falafel for lunch at some point so now I have to follow through on that.
