Melbourne

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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 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

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?

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

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.

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 ($$$).

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.

Pray for me this afternoon when I'm outside.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't studying and could go home like the rest of my family and just relax. I just want to get this shit done and relax for two weeks.

The course I'm doing is known for being "easy" academically, but I'm on track to failing a subject unless I get 85% in one of the assessments. I'm submitting everything late, if at all.

I guess there's no point in worrying now, and I just have to power through and cross the failing bridge when I come to it.

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.

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

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

Hail! So much excitement today.

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

off to Bogong to buy some hiking boots.

stay warm guys😊

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.

It is a porridge morning

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

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.

not too warm here, brr