Melbourne

I watched the whole of BBC War and Peace. Cried the whole way thru.

It made me feel life was both beautiful and pointless.

4.5 hobbits

I'm practicing self restraint by having a little bit of ice cream at night but then putting it away before I start binging.

So Google AdWords accounts have been hacked and scammers are posing as Google AdWords managers sending demanding emails re fake debt. When logging a support case with Google re the scam emails, they admitted they had been compromised and the account name and number had been leaked. Won’t be doing any more business with them..

I know it's wrong but I like seeing the car crashes on Australian Idol.

GAH! I did it! I wrote the 3 Difficult Emails that I'd been procrastinating on for over two weeks. I hate asking people for potential opportunities out of the blue. I still feel like I have little to offer on balance (often feels like social likeability is valued disproportionately higher than skills even for moderately technical roles). So it's hard to reach out and deal with potential rejection especially when deep down inside it kind of feels like none of this matters anyway.

Maybe 4-5pm wasn't the best timing, but I felt like I could send em off, shut my laptop and ignore it all until tomorrow morning.

Currently making this extremely easy and banging Chinese recipe: Cumin potatoes inspired by Cumin Lamb from Xi'an Chinese Muslim street food. Only made it once before and I did have baby potatoes at the time, keen to see how this works out with big potatoes I had to cut into thick coins and then quarters.

Edit: look at these delicious potatoes. They are addictive

Ohh I forgot to mention, I found out my car seat has this extending function and it's SO COMFORTABLE. I didn't think it'd make a lot of difference but it's actually so good. It just supports your thighs so much compared to the normal seat. If you get a chance to get a car with this, I fully recommend it.

Ordered some period jocks... got sent a pair with the right tag but the wrong style 😤

Guess they get donated to the food pantry (brand new and untouched) along with the nine cans of disliked cat food. There's gotta be someone out there who likes that style and some cat that eats that flavour.

I drank half a bottle of orange juice and smashed a bunch of dried apricots and pears. Had issues in the toilet of the explosive nature, but I still feel the rumblings within.

Pray for me

Survived my first day back at work today but some good and bad to come out of it.

Someone on "team" resigned so some of those duties are going to fall on my shoulders and I'm not sure if it's possible to get work of that nature accomplished in my work environment which is very open plan.

Second thing that's been asked of me is to work off site twice a week which means making multiple trips during the week to do that and it's only for an hour offsite which irks me more since I can't begin or end the day there which would make it much better to stomach.

Guess I may have no choice in either, point 1 I'll bring up that I can only do what I can do given my workload and concentration needed.

Point 2 I'm not sure how I can negotiate that or come up with some sort of compromise.

Has anyone here gone down the cbd oil route as an anxiety/mood stabiliser?

Omg today has been an amazing day for my PhD research. I am in the process of organising all my data from the archive trips last year and really analysing it. Long story short, without doxxing my topic, I think, as of today, I have enough data to prove my research question with very little shadow of a doubt!

These sc(p)am messages are getting real annoying

I just realised that the other day when I cooked party pies and sausage rolls that I'm pretty sure I accidentally used the grill function of instead of the oven function and they actually turned out really great. I'm going to try again now for lunch, for science.