Heya! That time again! For the new folks, this thread is a space to tell us about something fun and cool you have going on, vent about something, or find an ear that you may need. Hope you’ve been well!
Remember, you are loved
For my own part, while my attention span continues to get worse and worse, im still powering through Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and trying to keep warm. Pretty nasty out where I’m at, and won’t get better for another week or so. No leads on the job hunt, but I did start looking into nonprofit stuff and got a few apps out, so thats kind of exciting in and of itself. Partner stayed with me for a few days last week, and am arranging a date with someone I’ve been seeing around in local leftist/queer/gaming circles. And by date I mean “come watch movies with the pup and I cause we’re poor.” Or maybe we’ll shoot some free pool at a spot by me, who knows.
Lastly - ayyyyy two months without alcohol! I seemed to have swapped it out with a caffeine addiction though, but oh well. More coffee, anyone?
Hope you’re doing well, friends!
It sucks that the things that used to keep be well, or at least better, are mostly beyond my reach and have been for a long time now.
It sucks that the overwhelming majority of advice for this might as well be cooking lessons for people who are starving or investment courses for people living below the poverty line; better management of a situation doesn’t address it when there’s a fundamental shortfall and often the shortfall itself is what puts the opportunity for better management out of reach.
I’m tired. I’m tired of being tired.
Quite truly awful lately. A few days ago I just stopped sleeping well at all, so where I immediately can’t function if I don’t get 8 hours sleep for a single night, I’ve now had 4-5 nights of 4-5 hours. I am a zombie.
I’m not sure why, but it suspect it’s due to the high stress from my workplace making absolutely dogshit awful changes that will make my job significantly worse indefinitely, my car failing so I need a new one, my loan renewal date coming up, and trying to plan out like 900 things that need planning. I can’t handle the stress of like one of those things, never mind all of them.
In a queer space, I met a lesbian lady who lives in Pakistan and works for the Department of School Education.
For like two seconds I thought this was cool, but she started talking about how “the tribals” in Punjab are all “dangerous” and “keep their girls from going to school”, and how the Department delivers USAID textbooks, uniforms, so on. Smelt really bad to me, like this is an imperialist thing right? USAID textbooks were also what the Taliban used in Afghanistan for radicalisation, right?
Worthy to note, I just asked her about what she does and how it gets done, I did not unhinge my jaw and spew forth a DOG OF THE USAMERICAN EMPIRE rant, because you know what they say about No Investigation. I do have something like a filter. It was kind of surreal to be sniffing out western propaganda in realtime while talking with this queer woman from Pakistan though. Plus, it was kind of irritating to have libs chime in all UR DOING A SERVICE FOR UR COUNTRY on something that fucking reeks of pinkwashing & homonationalism.
Your thoughts please, thread.
Hope you get an answer! I’m not informed enough to have any response at this moment, but maybe make this its own thread?
better than before. legit like 2 days after joining the kapital book club my friend’s mom died so we’ve been caught up with that but things are starting to settle somewhat now, so hopefully i can catch up 🙏
I nearly sliced my thumb off today with a razor sharp santoku knife. That was fun. Never try to stop a knife from sliding off the counter onto the floor. Just get the fuck out of its way.
It didn’t come off thankfully, but I definitely sliced some nerves. It cut about a 1/4" deep and I lost a good bit of blood. Did not go to the ER like I really should’ve.
Can you still feel it? I lost feeling in one of my fingertips after an incident with a forklift, which is small but annoying sometimes lol
