It's going, I got my medical cannabis second prescription and it arrived today which is nice, waiting on some blackmarket ritalin to deal with my ADHD until my psychiatrist can see me and prescribe it legally. Not being able to think is a fucking nightmare.
@alyaza Going just fine. I went hiking through a forest this weekend and a stray dog kept following every one of us searching for food. You can see it in my profile pic now 😁
When we got to a nearby village, eventually one of the people in our group went to a shop and bought dog food. That dog was probably never happier in a while. It kept following us from a partially abandoned monastery all the way there.
And a new team project begins. Team leaders from the last term's projects were exempt from being in charge again this time, which was something of a relief for a couple of hours. The new team leader is a lovely guy, but very shy and socially awkward, and so far his success rate for deciding what to do and delegating it to someone is... uh... one time. A couple more times if you include me making a suggestion and him going "yeah, what Frog said." I have to give the dude credit for volunteering for team leader - given his personality, it was a seriously brave thing to do and I genuinely admire that. But I understand there are some bets amongst the class for £5-£10 over how many weeks it will be before I'm in charge. And I'm just like... nope, I am not taking over. I'm just not doing it.
i wanted something light and short, so i listened to mindy kaling’s second book, “why not me?” plenty of laughs, and it made my five hour car trip feel a lot less awful.
Alyaza what have been your favorite/most interesting book among the four?
the majority of my reading list would not make for particularly comfortable reading so i'll just point you to the fairly normal pick from last year, which is I'm Glad My Mom Died
now that i've read a bit more this week: The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins is an early contender for my book of the year and the first to get 5 stars this year from me (although i'm a generous reviewer)
I'm revisiting old favourites of mine - the first two books of the "achtsam morden" (mindful murder) series by Karsten Dusse. Unfortunately they're German so probably not of much interest to you, but if you happen to speak it or come across a translation that I'm not aware of, do give the first book a try.
The protagonist is a lawyer mainly working for a mobster he doesn't like. He's increasingly unhappy with his work and life, and his marriage and the relationship with his little daughter are falling apart... until his wife forces him to go to a mindfulness seminar. When he starts applying the things he learns there, his life takes a dramatic turn as the results of his mindfulness are the death of his boss, him taking his place as the leader of a criminal enterprise and eventually using the enterprise's resources to kill his opponents one by one and secure his daughter a place in kindergarten.
Especially the first book is a pleasant read both for the protagonist's stoically mindful handling of increasingly violent and unlikely situations and for the actual exercises in mindfulness explained and demonstrated to the reader. You learn both why you should still love your parents-in-law even if you hate their guts (and how to do that) as well as how to correctly detonate a couple of hand grenades taped to a mobster's nuts, all from the point of view of a very smart lawyer (which the author actually is in real life). In that the book is both educational and entertaining at the same time.
I moved to Chicago at the end of October from the deep south. The past few days the weather has been hovering around 0⁰F and that has been an adjustment. I've figured out the clothing I can wear to bear it. Sunday my feet felt like they were going to fall off after only a few minutes walking around. Last night I had to wait for a bus for like 20 minutes and I was totally fine. I switched boots and it fixed my whole issue with comfort.
At the end of last year all I had was hope and patience. Through sheer luck and the kindness of complete strangers my living situation has finally stabilized.
The things that happened last year really did a number on me and now it takes time to recover once again. Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever have a society where it is ok to be human.
Luckily I don't drink or anything like that but it's seemingly near impossible to get my arse into first gear to take care of the few responsibilities that I have.
Fortunately I've learned to take care of the basics like eating healthy, sleeping well, making friends, and knowing that through it all, even on the worst of days, that things will eventually improve. That it's all worth it.
I just hope my client can find that final bit of patience, as I honestly don't know what to tell them any more. I feel terrible about it, but also I want and need to work and so they're kinda stuck with this situation too. All I can hope for is that when things start moving again that I can work multiple days per week. That would solve the issues for everyone involved.
I was wondering why I had mounting anxiety and some shakes, only to realize that I had not eaten for several hours. Roast beef sandwich and some chamomile tea fixed that right up.
A little bit of hard salami, roast beef, two slices of extra sharp cheddar, a squirt of the whataburger creamy pepper sauce and hamburger dill pickles on slices of nature's own thick sliced brioche.
Getting ready for more snow after spending a few days bucking and splitting some of next year's wood from a tree that fell in the yard. Kinda hoping we get some decent coverage and that it sticks around for longer than a day, but that it doesn't cause too much disruption for @Chris Remington and other folks in New England. My father found some back country skis as a christmas gift that should be better for getting around some of the hill on our property and I'm dying to try them.
Well, 2 weeks into having a laptop running linux, I accidentally deleted the etc file and can't get back the few files on it that I created. Luckily, none of it is really all that important and the rest was already backed up onto a thumb drive.
Now I have the task of reinstalling and setting things back up and getting a quick assignment done for one of my classes. Thankfully I've got plenty of time to do both.
Got like 3 hours sleep last night, slept in, ate too fast, stomach ache all day due to that. Other than that, easy work day and the week is light on work to boot. Might get snow where I live too. That would be...cool.
I'm on book 1 so far but it's already quite an accomplishment for me to be reading again. I used to read on my 1h train commute but since I got a new job and the train is only 20 mins anymore I pretty much stopped reading altogether. I've decided to get back into it anyway even though it's only small boats at a time, and I'm really happy to be back :)
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