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arguewithatree  ·  2794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 3, 2016

work

still sucks. 3 more weeks til i can give notice. there's some sort of weird power struggle between my contract boss (who i am actually beholden to) and my area desk boss (who i spend most of my time working for but the contract wins out in a conflict) going on that i just do not care about and am somehow in the middle of.

Fulbright

can't come soon enough tbh. unfortunately since the plan is "pack everything", i don't really have need for making a detailed packing list (if you check the marginalia in all my notes when I'm approaching a trip, i like to write out and illustrate packing lists and haven't been in a meeting long and boring enough to warrant one for this trip lol) but I have been making one for the orientation which is coming up in a few weeks. pretty excited about orientation because they're putting me up in a nice hotel on the govt dime 👌👌👌👌👌

still haven't been able to book flights yet which is highly aggravating but not unexpected for a state department program. last i heard there were still people waiting on ministerial placements which is just absurd to me. people are supposed to be departing soon and they could possibly still not know where they're working??

i also posted in the facebook group the kosovo fellows have and came clean on not knowing shit about the balkans and now i have over 40 digital books and articles to help me!! totally willing to share those if anyone is interested.

bad shit

if you abused me and you know it and refuse to accept radio silence and social media blocks as indicators that i don't wanna talk to you but continue to try and find ways to do so in order to tell me that you won't contact me any more, clap your hands "clap clap" - my ex prolly

so i never got around to getting that protective order i set out to get in the march/april timeline because the court system in DC is fucking stupid and closes at 4pm and wants you to show up ready for AT LEAST 2 hours of interviewing for DV intake/protective orders. and i figured that since he doesn't actually know where i live it's nbd. but he still managed to find my active tumblr (had previously messaged me at a url i'm only sitting on because i used it for 4ish years before switching) and send me a message telling me that "he gets it and won't contact me any more" while ALSO somehow still blaming me for him abusing me (he literally said i thought you were kinky like me.... so to bring that back around to the sex positivity discussion we were having the other day). L I K E.

oh and he tacked on a halfhearted sorry about your cat too. so that was something.

sandwich the bad stuff between good stuff

on Friday Topher and I are going to the Annapolis Crab Feast with a friend and i am SO PUMPED to gorge myself on crab. every summer i am sad because i don't have family in Maryland to have a crab bake with and all i ever want is to eat obscene amounts of shellfish. so send expansive vibes to my guts on Friday.





_refugee_  ·  2793 days ago  ·  link  ·  

oh my god I am so jealous of your crab feast