just_kitten
@just_kitten@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 3 hours ago:
You think it’s bad starting now, try waiting 3 years between S1 and S2 😭 they say next season should be out next year or so, I hope that’s what happens
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 5 hours ago:
Severance S2 almost feels like a different show that’s for sure.
I feel you about the tension with family. Sometimes I feel sad I only have one subsection of my family I really can connect with. But I’m glad that I have the option of avoiding so much drama as well. Creating better choices now that I have them…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 9 hours ago:
Yeah, it won’t be a full day, just enough to make sure the following days aren’t a total clusterfuck. Thinking about it makes me a tad anxious now so best to get ahead of it…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 10 hours ago:
I knew it, this rain was a total lie - all I ended up with was a car with dried dusty splotches all over! I’m not confident it’ll rain much tomorrow either… it’s so dry out there.
It took so much effort but I’ve done my most important duties today: cleaned manky kitchen and bathroom, vacuumed disgusting gross carpet, washed and dried some seriously dirty sheets and clothes, put new sheets on, and gave my own oily unwashed hair a good clean. 1.5hr chat with depressed cousin (both of us significantly more cheerful after talking), and a decent dinner later, I’m certainly feeling gruntled.
This will sound awful but I think I’m just going to frigging go into the office tomorrow and work (and count it as hours for later in the week), because I’m just not in the mood for a 4 day long weekend when I have a LOT to do before Thursday and will be pretty much unavailable for 7 working days after during which time several deadlines will come up.
I’d rather clear my plate early, and also do it on a day when I will have zero distractions (but good coffee, ergonomics and lighting).
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 14 hours ago:
New plan hatched (heh) in terms of buying gifts for people back in the Soup. Because they get nearly everything there (albeit marked up) it can be hard to figure out what to bring back… and I have the perfect idea.
Discounted fancy Easter choccies! I shall head to Leo’s on Tuesday or Wednesday after work and see if there’s some premium local brands on sale, the kind you won’t get overseas. Monsieur Truffe on discount would be nice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 16 hours ago:
I’m feeling a bit bummed spending all 4 days alone, however I sorta don’t mind given the lack of alone time I will have during my 11 day trip and the two days prior.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 20 hours ago:
Really hoping that rain promised today eventuates. It’s been so dry recently!
Last two days saw me sink into disgusting goblin mode just eating and scrolling and watching tv without really enjoying any of it. Today I shall vanquish all the chores, wash my greasy hair, and start packing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 1 day ago:
Halfway through Animal Kingdom S2 so far. Idk, it’s not terrible by far but it’s not really gripping my attention much either, I fast forward through all the alpha male stuff. I like Shawn Hatosy though and everyone says he does great in all 5 seasons so I guess I’ll keep going
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 1 day ago:
Good morning, in further public holiday brainrot developments I went down the path of reading about Zizians (already vaguely knew about rationalism and MIRI and that insanity). The intelligent mind truly can go to some insane places. What the fuck is this shit
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
Same, aside from starting Animal Kingdom (the tv series)
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
I’ve given myself a break from lists for today. Tomorrow the listing resumes in earnest… floor and kitchen are filthy. Once again I state my dislike of carpeting
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
I regret to say the sophisticated bottle of chili oil I found in my car from yesterday’s food pickup is rather underwhelming and has too many unnecessary ingredients. Who puts whole coriander seeds in??! 🎩
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
A nice juicy bit of panfried salmon (skin on) served with roasted broccolini in a lemon dressing and some steamed kipfler potatoes (halved) in herb and garlic butter.
And a sophisticated bottle of chili oil.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
6/10 and mostly dumb luck
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 2 days ago:
Why do I have to be up so early on a public holiday. I mean, I did go to sleep very early too but I was angling for a nice long sleep-in… especially because of the very sexy dreams I just woke up from :(
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 3 days ago:
Did a solid day of uni stuff. Made essential progress on the easiest stuff.
Next up is time to be data wizard, start generating plots, and when that all feels like too much I shall start with the easiest bit of writing: the method…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 3 days ago:
Tech success! I figured out why PuTTY wasn’t reading serial data from the ancient data measuring device I had to use (some setting in device manager buried under 5 layers)… and despite massive internal blockage in my head from actually sitting down and learning basic R, I managed to troubleshoot why my supervisor’s R script for cleaning the output data kept not working. Something something dataframe object column number mismatch something. Good old google making me feel smarter than I am
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 3 days ago:
Got up at 3:30am after pizza-induced crazy dreams and heat and going to sleep early. Am now finally sat at computer forcing myself to do the last minute uni work I need to do before meeting my supervisor.
…of course, I want to do literally anything but that. Sinking feeling that I will not get to “enjoy” the public holidays much as I’m so behind on everything. My brain thinks of calhoon’s gorgeous hammock photo from yesterday and is engulfed in sadness.
Also, what the fuck it’s so hot in my apartment. Or I’m just really feeling it. I have to have the AC on in my south facing living room that has had the blinds closed all day…
OKAY. This meeting is at 9am and I need to be out of my house by 8:50 am so I better get cracking now. Headphones on, The Trip at full blast, let’s go
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
Totally did and scarfed it all down like a hungry wolf. Gonna have an early night…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
I looked at that for nearly a minute thinking “surely that’s not road legal” before realising what I was looking at
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
Well, despite barely sleeping at all out of frustration and resentment and the heat, I seem to have woken up feeling alright and the day was rather pretty and fun for what it was, once i realised other deadlines were going to have to get tossed out beyond my control
Still got a lot of uni stuff to do before meeting tomorrow and I had banked on a short office day today to give me more time. Am now exhausted and about to see psych after which I rarely feel like doing and work but we’ll see… maybe I’ll reward myself with pizza tonight if I can get it all done.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
8/10 dream good world building but needs more dramatic tension
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
I didn’t sleep at all. Really awful night. Didn’t think the heat would be an issue this late in the year sigh
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 4 days ago:
Same. A fortnight is a fortnight, every bill or estimated bill gets divided into fortnightly payments even if it’s $3 per fortnight. Getting paid 3 times a month makes no difference at all to my accounting/budgeting…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 5 days ago:
Can’t sleep, too hot, angry angry angry at having my work schedule upended last minute and not having the time I really needed and now running behind on things again. Forced back out into site visits when I had other stuff to do and planned everything ahead of time. I am firmly putting my foot down next time.
I’m going to be extra grumpy from being sleep deprived as well…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 15 April 2025 5 days ago:
You are so talented Seagoon! Holy cow, that is an AMAZING jumper. I’m almost surprised it hasn’t been worn threadbare. Miss S is so lucky
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 15 April 2025 5 days ago:
Hooray for still being around in the foreseeable future! 🎉
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 15 April 2025 5 days ago:
Eyyyyy. Looks like I get to vote on 3 May as well! But not in the Australian elections… in the Tropical Soup ones instead - which I’m not eligible to vote for from overseas. I get to vote hours before I leave! What luck.
Not like it makes a difference in a place that is a de facto one party state but hey…
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 15 April 2025 5 days ago:
Yesterday’s Scary Emails I Didn’t Want To Look At And Felt Like Shutting Off The World Over were looked at this am (frog, swallow, etc). They were not as bad as expected. Just need to get one document signed by supervisor who I’m meeting on Thursday.
Work, otoh, has my crank level dialled right up today. Clashing with some poor assumptions and lack of communication (imo) around the scope of this job. I’m used to writing my own quotes for these kinds of things and having full control over managing client expectations including reinterpreting their own terribly written scope. Now I’m spending much much more time than I expected on this… well, it’s not my fault or problem at this point, it’ll take what it does to meet the scope as directed, and if the company bears a loss on it that’s up to them to be tighter about quoting 😇
I can’t wait to get back to my usual role because I still resent this side of the job… Luckily this is maybe the second time I’ve had to do it in nearly a year.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🕹 Monday 14 April 2025 6 days ago:
A cleaner, absolutely hands down. Especially the bathroom. Everything else I can somehow handle but the #1 very first kind of help I would get if I had money is a cleaner. Then maybe an admin person (even just to make phone calls, I hate phone calls). Then maaaaybe a cook but I would be very very picky about what they make and how.