Strays were all back. That was more stressful than I expected tbh.
Gotten a bit attached to the furball army.
Discussion Thread 🥸 Wednesday 3 September 2025
Submitted 2 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Alright. Spoke to recruiter this morning to get an idea of what to expect with the director on Friday. Have even written down what questions he might ask and formulated some bullet points I can riff off of.
Putting in tonnes of applications. Will re do my resume today.
That aside, progressing relatively quickly with drums. Probably 6 more months and I could play drums in a band which I’d love. Most muses are doing multiple music things at the same time lol
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Do you think being able to play other instruments helps with learning new ones quickly? I was learning piano for about a year but I found it pretty difficult, never seemed to click with me.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Piano is a bugger to learn once past 7 years old, as it requires major training of fingers to operate independently. Same for violin apparently. The two instruments hardest to learn past childhood.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s definitely helped. Because I already have a strong sense of rhythm from guitar, it’s more learning the mechanic aspects of drums than having to learn the entirety of music from scratch.
But don’t let that deter you! Sometimes I feel like I’ve got nothing on any instrument. It definitely comes in waves.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I started learning guitar after learning piano for a couple of years, but am finding guitar kinda difficult due to the layout. And also have tiny hands and short fingers. The technique stuff has been a steep learning curve.
I think knowing a bit of basic music theory does help a bit when learning multiple instruments. Because I know what the notes sound like from doing piano and briefly, voice, it’s a lot easier to tune the guitar.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Vacated my work desk of four years and wow, had I managed to accumulate some crap on there!! Have stored most of it in a box under the new desk, but put up some important pics and knick knacks on the new desk since I’ll be here a couple of weeks.
What’s your favourite thing in your work space? Be it a desk, a room, whatever kind of space you work in. Mine is a tiny cat zen garden and a painting I commissioned of Toby.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Weathered rocks from the beach lol. These things came from the reef just outside the heads.
There was a massive wind event about 2 yrs ago that kicked up so many of them (some of them huge) so carted them back to put on the windowsill. Problem is you have to keep taking them off and cleaning it as spiders and dust loves it.
Sill is about 5m long and completely full of them. Always look at them, zone out and think of the beach.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
That’s so awesome and good job keeping them spider free. Sounds like they’d great for a bit of midday meditation!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
love it ☺️
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I had a pile of books on my desk at an old job that I got made redundant from. I had to carry a bunch of things out in a box like in the movies. After that I’ve decided to never have more on my desk than I could take out in one trip
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I don’t have a permanent desk to leave anything on. I usually put up a picture from my website so I’ve got something personal to look at. Someone crocheted a bunch of flowering cactus pots which are dotted around the office which I really like.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Mine is my little mill house figurine where he’s spilt I’ve cream on himself lol
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Mine is very clean now - policy. I used to have a little shrine though, it was a golden dinosaur riding on-top of an elephant shaped watering can, with Christmas baubles for jewellery
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
That shrine sounds awesome and that policy sounds shit. I need a little bit of spark in my workspace!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I haven’t settled into my new desk yet
but I used to have a little Japanese cat I got from miss seagoon
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Oooh. Hello from another dimension.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
The sea was angry that day, my friend
and pushed loads of seaweed onto the beach
so I can’t find much beachcombing
here’s a picture of a mangrove and Melbourne way off 11 km away in the distance
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
What is it like living there? The beach makes things look windswept and lonely
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Oooh, how exciting!! Please keep us updated on your adventures, I am so excited for you!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
placement reflections
I don’t know how much I should be sharing for privacy reasons but hopefully I don’t overstep and someone finds out who and where I am. First day on placement was today and I’m in awe at how respectful and rule-abiding these kids are. Most people are nice. Most of the kids see the value in school, and from what I have seen, most bring the required materials to class! They have well-established routines and would never swear at teachers or yell out in class like in my last school. I don’t have to feel so anxious about behaviour management anymore. The difference is night and day. I feel guilty for being in such a nice school culture. There is a school refusal crisis going on at the moment, and I feel like I would make more of a difference by working with at-risk kids. However, I don’t know if doing school in the way the prim and proper school I’m at would work for those sorts of kids. When the school culture is prim and proper, and everyone follows those rules, it might incentivise others to do so as well? I think first and foremost, kids need safe adults in their lives who respect them for who they are, and I could be one of those adults. Maybe I just want to be a parent or something. So I am still rethinking the career path. I just want to leave the world in a better place than how I found it.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I couldn’t think of a nicer way starting a teacher’s career than spending it with good kids.
We crawl, we walk then we run.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Here here!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I wish all kids were good kids. Every kid deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a kid. Damn maybe I should do foster care one day. That is a fucked up system but I wish every kid could have a decent upbringing.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Echoing the other DTers.
I think it would take much more experience and skill to teach/help in a more difficult school.
Get all your experience in a good safe school and then go on to kids who need a good person like you.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I agree. The first class I was ever given was very challenging, and their normal teacher was highly experienced, having taught all over Australia. I think just growing up a bit and getting more life experience will help me do better too.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Back to melbs today.
Got most shit done but the weather threw a spanner in. Plan was to have the garden beds completely weeded and mulched by spring. But… there is no (well, err… little) oxalis 👍 $75 worth of aerogard did the whole lot and for the size of garden beds is a good deal.
Also the new 'puter is rock solid which is a relief. Such a leap from the old one. Dawned on me that the old one did me good for a bit more than 1/3rd of my existence lol. my fondest memory of it was when the GFX card fan died, didn’t need a new one really so I suspended a fan on 2 doritos salsa dip tubs underneath it as it was the perfect height as a temp thing. Stayed that way for 3 years heh.
But it’s back to reality :(
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Mate that new PC must feel like a dream in comparison!!!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I’m struggling so badly with getting to sleep at the moment. It feels like so many things are piling up on top of me and everything is changing except the things that most need to. So of course the best way to improve things is insomnia…
Pills don’t even help much.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I understand how you feel to a degree.
And same regarding pills.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Just sleep, even if it’s during the day. When you feel less tired you can try to get a better sleeping rhythm.
and hugs 🫂
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I do sleep a bit in the day but it gets in the way of things I really need to do (especially tasks to resolve the sources of stress). Plus physically and mentally I still feel terrible.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Goodnight everyone ❤️
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Someone asked about replacing gadgets the other day - my SonyXM3 headset did die. 6.33 years. My fault, I knocked them off the desk. I found a new (refurb) pair of XM4s for $200. The 5’s review badly and the 6’s cost ~$600 which is too much for me for a headset.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
That was me. The 4s have multi device, which is a nice to have but wasn’t worth going to get them when brand new at the time
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s cool.
bacon@aussie.zone 2 days ago
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Can I please get a snag in bread. Butter no sauce. And I’ll get a can of Solo too please.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
tea and home made crumpets with raspberry jam thanks
bacon@aussie.zone 2 days ago
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Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Microwaved sweet potato with tomatoey sardines and sping onions please
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I want some sping onions please - never had these and I’m curious.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Listening to some Bix Beiderbecker while reading an art book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pob7zgAWeMI
great music and great writing
“If we divide artists into nations while doing so we must remember that nations are a more transient phenomenon than art, the time is often more important in art than the place… In each case one artist may help in the appreciation of the other another for they have in common their age’s idea of beauty.”
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
You are the only other person I know who listens to Bix Beiderbecker
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Old jazz listeners together strong.
I prefer them over the Hot Club. Django is really good but I just like the other jazz better.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 days ago
7 hours of sleep again. I’m starting to accept that my body will not fall asleep before 10pm :(
But not good when I get home because I’m exhausted
Nath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Welcome to the sleep hates us club
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
reset your alarm clock to be 2 hours earlier
iow, we construct out day
my prob is my husband sets the clock with his work schedule
and I need to get off the net
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
When people call it “The Net”, I immediately picture Sandra Bullock in front of a computer screen.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
2 hours earlier for waking up?
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 days ago
No ride in today. I was late getting to work because I couldn’t find the remote, so the boys had to sit on me whilst watching bus videos on my phone
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Wow. So Beetlejuice is brilliant.
My folks got free tickets (apparently my stepmother’s cheesecake is keeping Eddie Perfect going? I knew it was good, I did not know it was medicinal) and I’ve just had my head blown off