Hold on to your hats and stay warm!
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
sounds like your supervisor is on your side 😊
Before Sunset thoughts: ahhhhhhhhhh
That was a nice little distraction.
4/5 Hobbits.
they are nice movies 😊
An apple turnover
Apple turnovers are my fav apple dessert. Must be made with granny smith apples with a slight crunch. Yum.
But if you turn it over, what is on the other side?
More apple
and more turnover
apple turnover
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.
Alarm! Alarm! Nothing on Vic Emergency. No fucking clue, upsetting everybody
it was Seagoon burning the onions again
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.
I bought a cheap blush stick but the ‘nude’ shade is straight up orange. The concealers are also overly light. I have no intention of reliving 2000s makeup trends so guess people just have to put up with my eye bags and pallor.
Maybe it’ll scare idiots away.
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
is it possible it’s not physical distress, but Cat Things? Misha went nuts last night, the weather had her all hepped up and then she wandered around the house loudly voicing her dissatisfaction for a couple hours. Unfortunately she uses the same call for genuine distress, tantrums and boredom
No, this is extremely out of character for her, often associated with the litterbox, and has been going for at least a week or two. She’s a very quiet stoic cat who barely ever made a squeak and now she sounds distraught.
I agree. Windy weather like drives cats crazy. It’s all the movement of leaves and all the odd noises.
My Pepper was especially spicy last night too. Took it out on the other cats.
Today Misha Wants To Play
considering misha usually treats everyone and everything else in the house with thinly veiled contempt and random violence, there is some confusion.
It is a porridge morning
off to Bogong to buy some hiking boots.
stay warm guys😊
Fire drill! Yay paid time off work
drill is sad :(
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
Stops the windows from fogging up.
I don’t want to cook. Venturing into the wet … in my Purple Wooly Cape!
Taking my books back to the library. I may spend the afternoon reading on the sofa
That sounds like a perfect rainy afternoon!
Hail! So much excitement today.
Pray for me this afternoon when I’m outside.
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…
