just_kitten
@just_kitten@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 17 hours ago:
she is such an adorable silly billy. I am not sure she is very smart though. She needs a bit of coaching when it comes to “run after the snack” games.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 18 hours ago:
It depends a lot on her human who is… Kind of flaky tbh. He’s got a good heart but his life is in a bit of a shambles of his own creation atm. At a crossroads where I think he’s very tempted to sell up what he has and float around; sox is the only real commitment he has tying him to one place…
If it came to it, I’d seriously consider adopting her but not for quite a while yet as I intend to end my lease and put my stuff in storage for a bit while I figure myself out before I come back and have more of a plan for how to secure my own home (if it’s at all possible).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 19 hours ago:
Since you demanded so nicely, here’s a couple of blurry mediocre shots from last night when I got home late and was crouched on my knees on the couch, which was an invitation for sox to jump onto my back and park herself there for a minute
I have extricated myself from the warm cocoon of bed and am staring blankly at a screen but I promise to get some more pics tonight.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 21 hours ago:
It’s my last day with sox, and I feel sad that I must peel myself away to go work on the thesis of doom. Rather than spend a goblin mode day with her cuddled up on the oodie watching dumb shit and tossing snacks around the room for her
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 21 hours ago:
Thank you for the insider info!!! 💜 I feel a lot more relieved to hear that! I did notice their wording said contributions made after 24 June “may” be processed in the new FY. Now it’s up to my damn bank to do the BPay thing in time
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 1 day ago:
Aaaargh, I was a doofus and forgot to transfer voluntary contributions to my super via BPay before 4pm Friday (received a crucial sum only on Thursday night but there was still enough time…)
Deadline for the super fund to receive it is Tuesday 4pm, fingers crossed on Monday it goes through on the day itself. I will be nervously checking and calling on Monday and be really kicking myself in the pants if it turns out I’ve just missed it and lost out claiming it this FY…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐰 Friday 20 June 2025 1 day ago:
Starting to be like clockwork, mum and aunts share some shit on WhatsApp and I have to tell them to check for AI… One aunt in particular is very susceptible and keeps sharing stuff that should be questionable from the get go. Really I don’t know what to tell her when we get to the point of what comes after VEO 3. When I go visit her in a couple months I think I need to sit down with her and go through some examples. “But it sounds just like David Attenborough!”
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐰 Friday 20 June 2025 1 day ago:
Thank you Jesus!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐰 Friday 20 June 2025 1 day ago:
A delicious tonic to stave off the various lurgies please doctor
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
It’s just next to Darebin Creek and well, the pestilence was in our living memory, so let’s not tempt fate…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
My heart broke every time. I am so sorry sox, I wish I was done with this effing project before you had to go so I could have a guilt-free lazy weekend with you
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
Poor norflands just can’t catch a break this year huh
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
I got about 60% done before it was time to go and that involved regretfully relocating the cat about 10 times in half an hour. I wish I could tell her I love the attention, just not right now!
I will try and finish the rest when I get back and then watch something on my laptop so she can nestle on me at length.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
It’s been two hours and I’ve only just started doing anything relevant. Meanwhile she is constantly headbonking my hands when I try to type. And curling herself up into a different but equally comfy position every 10 minutes. I walked into this…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 2 days ago:
I have an afternoon appointment so I bravely decided to try and work on my slides from home.
This is how that’s going…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
Someone needs to create an annual Norflands bingo card. This would be very easy to populate
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
Only just got home after a long but mostly productive stretch at uni. I’m almost there with the slides, and I’m actually quite proud of the effort (shock, horror). Doing it has also helped me feel more clear about the flow of my thesis and where all the references should go, so I’m feeling positive about the momentum. Finally! It always only happens near the end, hey…
I’ve also noticed although petrol should be continuing on a downward trend, with everything going on overseas, I feel like they’ll shoot up again any minute now so decided to fill up on the way back at 169. I’m also very sure my rear right tyre has a slow leak from when I was moving house and busted a different tyre. 30 in everything else and 17 in the offending one. Car service and tyre replacement definitely first on the cards when I’m done.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
I definitely do this at home. I like not having my fingers all greasy if I want to use the tv remote or phone. Also a must when I’m eating while working on other stuff
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
Whew that was a super hectic talk-through of whatever shonky slides I already have but it looks like I am mostly there. The power of just slapping up one image with notes on another screen so you can talk as little or as much as needed depending on time!
Looks like my supervisor is pretty flat out marking other stuff next week so it really is hyper-compressed crunch time rest of this week to get the slides to a usable place, then get a 90% draft of the thesis across by latest Tuesday next week.
Ah well, I operate best under pressure and maybe it’s a good target for me to try and get this wrapped up by my RL cake day around that due date as a bonus motivator… time to clear the weekend and get more food ordered! 🦾
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
Unpopular opinion indeed 😭 Cold, chewy pizza just makes my stomach turn. It is the food of desperation. I’d rather have a cheese toastie. Even a microwaved slice that’s eaten in 30 seconds before the texture goes all funny
I normally just buy one pizza and eat it that night, or maybe eat 70% and put the rest in the fridge for breakfast or lunch. I can’t really eat pizza too many days in a week. But on Monday there was a great deal - either one large pizza for $15 or two for $25, and I went for two precisely because then a few extra meals would be sorted during the week. I wouldn’t do this regularly though.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
Doesn’t the cheese stick to the sandwich press? Teach me your ways. I wouldn’t mind having the rest of the pizza for lunch tomorrow and there is a sandwich press available at uni…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛩 Wednesday 18 June 2025 3 days ago:
How good is leftover pizza in the air fryer for breakfast?
So good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 4 days ago:
I is making pretty map of data trying to remember what I was thinking 3 months ago when sampling this shit
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 4 days ago:
It’s about a 15-20 minute presentation with a relatively vague marking rubric. It ascribes equal components to each aspect of the thesis that I will be presenting on, which is a bit dumb since obviously the intro and discussion will require a lot more time than the aims and probably the results.
The presentation itself is going to be picture heavy but a lot of the time is currently being spent creating the diagrams/maps (I will still need these for the thesis as well so it’s not time wasted at least). I have not even finished the slides let alone started coming up with a draft script to time myself. At first I was worried that I would not even get up to 15 minutes but I think I will be able to have minimal text on the slides and expand/summarise as much as is needed depending on how I’m going for time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 4 days ago:
My problem is that the check lists are out of control (the more I do the more I realise I need to do and my priorities start getting confused). I have managed to stick to some relatively hard constraints for this presentation so I’m going to make sure the slides and all the diagrams are done that way I am free to move back onto the thesis. Rather than juggling everything at once…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 4 days ago:
Welp, it must be some kind of divine intervention or something but my presentation has been postponed at the last minute to some day next week. I’m still going to work towards finishing up to present to my supervisor tomorrow arvo, I NEED URGENT DEADLINES OR MY BRAIN WON’T WORK.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 4 days ago:
Today was not a great day to realise I’d left my rain jacket in the work car. Luckily I nabbed a park close to the library and don’t have to walk far with an umbrella. Wish me all the focus and concentration to get my presentation ready by tomorrow arvo - I’m going to start by creating one diagram summarising my entire method and two maps that need to go in my report anyway
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 5 days ago:
Everyone I know is getting the flu or a cold one after the other. Sounds like it’s your turn coming up
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 5 days ago:
10/10 rant except for the part where it is a very real problem 😔 the dickhead husband of my favourite aunt is a bit like this - he can cook some very basic meals and a couple of overspiced dishes. But it doesn’t matter how sick his wife is, he cooks when he feels like it (esp if there are guests to show off to), but she is expected to always cook. Really grinds my gears. Your old man might need a bit of a slap in the face about the reality of the situation…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 5 days ago:
It felt a bit like this when I was working on my thesis preso yesterday. Does any of this matter? Maybe we will be in WW3 by the end of this week. Whatever…
