Someone yesterday kindly informed me that the really good daily thread had moved here so here I am! Hi everyone. In other news for the fourth day in a row, I don't think I will be able to leave my study or house. Way to many PhD things to do right now.
Hey, you made it! Welcome to the friendly thread!
G'day!
I was gonna reply something like this about your blinds based phd but you're here now so here it is: 
Your comment has got me thinking way to much about the history of Venetian blinds and I do feel there is a procrastination research rabbit hole in the near future for me.
It would be a nice up the sleeve bit of knowledge for the next time some nub like me makes another blinds joke about your phd.
So, the rabbit hole was achieved. Turns out Venetian blinds, like so many Venetian 'inventions', were invented elsewhere but perfected and mass distributed in Venice. In the case of the blinds, Venetian merchants found them in Persia and took the design back to Venice. Due to its large maritime trade and fabrication capabilities, they were able to ship the design around the world, where it became especially popular in the early USA. It is actually really common for this to happen in Venice because of the maritime trade; they travelled to parts of the world other Europeans hadn't. In Venetian history, it is really common to find an idea in other parts of the world and then take the idea back to Venice, where it was changed into a more producible item and sold all over the world through their huge trade output. This is actually how many popular European foods entered into general usage throughout Italy and Europe. The Venetians perfected taking small ideas from around the world and perfecting and, more importantly, commercialising them; Venetian blinds are another example of that. Sorry for the rant, I love Venetian history (obviously).
Hello!! It's a bit more of an echo chamber here and there's not much activity on the sub itself but lots more of the friendly daily rambling vibe on the old DT. Great to see you here. Good luck with getting through the current research hole! I hope you're all stocked up on food and drinks.
Omg today has been an amazing day for my PhD research. I am in the process of organising all my data from the archive trips last year and really analysing it. Long story short, without doxxing my topic, I think, as of today, I have enough data to prove my research question with very little shadow of a doubt!
The really important question is - has your wonderful floofy cat forgiven you for your extended absence? Pix please!
That must be so satisfying! Congratulations! โจ
Hire car returned, new car purchased and rego transferred.
I'm beat! Car drives like a dream though.
Whoo congrats on the new car!
Anyone got any of those winning lottery tickets? First day back after holidays and I'm already pining to get out of here....
To the downvoter who downvotes this thread every day, you make laugh. ๐
I turned down the kitten that was up for adoption through a friend of a friend. As cute as it is, after doing some research, I think I'm better off adopting an adult cat. I was worried about single kitten syndrome and all of the work involved in caring for a high energy kitten. Plus I'm about to make a big career change and want to settle with that before I adopt. UGH responsible decision making.
Mummy got cleaning toys, kids ๐ a stick vacuum and a spot cleaner. It's time to play play play.
So I'm putting my toys together and the little dog doesn't like electronics so he jumps on the kid, who of course is on her phone, to get away. Then I hear "oh my god dude. You just wiped your dick across my screen". ๐ I couldn't tell her off because I was laughing ๐
GAH! I did it! I wrote the 3 Difficult Emails that I'd been procrastinating on for over two weeks. I hate asking people for potential opportunities out of the blue. I still feel like I have little to offer on balance (often feels like social likeability is valued disproportionately higher than skills even for moderately technical roles). So it's hard to reach out and deal with potential rejection especially when deep down inside it kind of feels like none of this matters anyway.
Maybe 4-5pm wasn't the best timing, but I felt like I could send em off, shut my laptop and ignore it all until tomorrow morning.
Currently making this extremely easy and banging Chinese recipe: Cumin potatoes inspired by Cumin Lamb from Xi'an Chinese Muslim street food. Only made it once before and I did have baby potatoes at the time, keen to see how this works out with big potatoes I had to cut into thick coins and then quarters.
Edit: look at these delicious potatoes. They are addictive
I drank half a bottle of orange juice and smashed a bunch of dried apricots and pears. Had issues in the toilet of the explosive nature, but I still feel the rumblings within.
Pray for me
This just gave me war flashbacks to the time I ate half a bag of dried apricots in the middle of a work day completely unaware of what they will ruthlessly do to your digestive tract.
Back from interstate yesterday. Attended a lovely wedding Saturday night and kiddo had an awesome time with his nana and uncle. Flight was amazing too, to my great surprise. But my god flying with a baby even one who is being chill is a whole lot more work than I expected.
My sister and her husband are currently overseas with their 5 month old and omg listening to what they had to prepare for the travel was exhausting to listen too. Never realised before just how much you have to plan when flying with a baby.
Made pizzas yesterday but only had enough toppings the kids like for one pizza for them. Decided on a whim to put some leftover chicken cacciatore on the other one with a sprinkle of cheese. Can 100% recommend!
I just realised that the other day when I cooked party pies and sausage rolls that I'm pretty sure I accidentally used the grill function of instead of the oven function and they actually turned out really great. I'm going to try again now for lunch, for science.
Science results: SUCCESS! The grill officially heats party pies and sausage rolls better than the oven.
Pump up the jam, pump it up while your feet are stompin' and the jam is pumpin', look at here the crowd is jumpin'.
Today's lunch toastie really hit the spot. Chicken, cheese, onion, sauerkraut and a mix of tomato relish and mayonnaise. On a dark capeseed loaf.
I should have stayed a night or two in hospital but I didnโt wanna. ๐
Now I swear doc thought I was faking and wouldnโt give me a script for anything stronger than nurofen.
I have terrible pain but limited loss in joint and muscle mobility and strength
this is what happens when youโre a fitter than most people your age ( which is pathetic considering Iโm unfit ) and diligently do sciatica exercises all the time
@Seagoon_ @CEOofmyhouse56 I am new to the chronic pain merry-go-round, but it seems doctors who don't know you well will pretty much assume this by default. It's exhausting. I even had the rural GP who ordered my MRI which showed clearly there was signal behave like there wasn't really anything more he could do. I think he was a bit grumpy that his diagnosis of "likely tennis elbow" was incorrect.
Survived my first day back at work today but some good and bad to come out of it.
Someone on "team" resigned so some of those duties are going to fall on my shoulders and I'm not sure if it's possible to get work of that nature accomplished in my work environment which is very open plan.
Second thing that's been asked of me is to work off site twice a week which means making multiple trips during the week to do that and it's only for an hour offsite which irks me more since I can't begin or end the day there which would make it much better to stomach.
Guess I may have no choice in either, point 1 I'll bring up that I can only do what I can do given my workload and concentration needed.
Point 2 I'm not sure how I can negotiate that or come up with some sort of compromise.
I'm absolutely hopeless with negotiations but it certainly sounds like you deserve some compensation for all this extra work.
YAY: day off - sneaky four day weekend BOO: no sleep from massive headache.
Might potter around and see if I can go get a massage to fix whatever has got caught up in my shoulder/neck.
Still it's a bewdiful day out there โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ
I bought a new keyboard. It's delightfully clicky and styled after the Famicom.
Has anyone here gone down the cbd oil route as an anxiety/mood stabiliser?
Phone holder set up and Bluetooth dongle now integrated with car stereo.
Yiss.
ugh, cluster knocked me on my arse this morning, I slept all day now I'm wired AF. Just what I need heading back after a week off.
Enthroned, I wear this crown of pain,
Nightmares filled my head again.
Grind my teeth to mask the fear,
All my demons dance and jeer.
Cloaked in stars, I shine so bright,
But I cannot see my own light.
Close my eyes and breathe in deep,
And feel the stars begin to weep.
All my demons dance and jeer,
Grind my teeth to mask the fear.
Nightmares filled my head again,
Enthroned, I wear this crown of pain.
How is it that in every multipack of something, drinks/icy poles/yoghurt etc., there is always one flavour that sucks arse and nobody in the house wants? Carefully constructed awfulness.
No one would buy the awful flavour otherwise. All part of the great "I know what I want to make and you just have to buy it anyway" conspiracy. God forbid that we should actually buy what WE want. Case in point - bath soap. Every supermarket in Aust stocks one million brands of liquid soap, but only (at most) 3 different kinds of bar soap. I prefer to use bar soap in the shower - and the brand I prefer is only available occasionally. It appears that other folk also prefer this brand as it sells out in approximately 3 nanoseconds when it's in stock. Then there's a wait of months before it's in stock again. So when I see it I buy up several months worth. As do the other buyers. You would think the supermarkets would keep more of it in stock more regularly, but no. They want us to buy the liquid soap instead.
I note you have chosen not to name the specific offending flavours. Go on, be brave.
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