Uhm. I'm seriously considering signing up for a 100k next year...maybe I've lost my goddamn mind. I'm not in a spot to understand putting off the things I think I can accomplish, and have some friends (including a lead medic at even longer races) who have already said they think I can and they'll help get me to the point of being able to do it. The things you do now you don't do for now, you do them for later...Work keeps flowing, I'm close to drowning. Somebody pass me the "too much work not enough people" floaties.
Big fundraising party at my friends maker space in the works this weekend - I’m exited but still need to figure out a costume. Helping then with demolition of the garage they rented for the next 10 years has been Never collapsed wall before. It’s exhilarating! I’ve been told they found 10k cash in the ceilings... but they did give it back to the owner. You don’t want to get on the bad side of a dude that has 10k stashed in his ceiling. Kind of need some new ways to spend time now. The fall cozyness of my couch and Netflix has taken over the last couple days and I feel more than a little guilty. When everyone has a day job, it’s hard to get motivated for daytime activities by myself sometimes, but a fun project might get me off my ass.
I wrote to my superior what I think went wrong, how I'll improve and what I will do now to fix things, and she complimented me for doing so. So I want to pass that compliment on to you guys. :) My week's been full of prepping my first D&D game as a dungeon master. Gonna be fun tomorrow, I have a cool adventure planned in a redneck city involving pet household dragons, an Amazing Saucepan of Majesty, a Scottish bounty hunter called Bligh Williams, and a guild who are basically DeBeers but with slavery.
I've been watching a lot of Planet Earth/Steve Irwin type shit. How a relationship with college-age women today goes: How I'd like a relationship to go: Gentlemen, please stop harassing women so those of us who just want some companionship don't have to bob-and-weave through her history of traumatic experiences with assholes. This is becoming nearly impossible.
Totally bedridden with the flu. This actually sucks so much. I had to take a week off school and get accommodation for a midterm, 2 labs, 2 assignments, 2 quizzes. I was never diagnosed with anything but the doctor is throwing antibiotics, Tylenol and codeine at me. Now people at my part time job are freaking out because I can't come into work today. I love you all!
So it's 1st November here, all the Halloween stuff is done and dusted. Onto Christmas planning... I've been losing my hair since I was like, 20? So a decade of very slowly watching it thin, before ramping up like nothing else this year. Finally buzzed it down to a number 1 and I actually don't mind it. Everyone seems to think I suit it, plus after a few days of it I sort of just forgot I even worried about doing it. Our office is being forced to move so the building can be renovated, and our new offices are super flash but it's a logistical nightmare shifting 30 academics. They don't travel light! No beach photo today, but here is sunset in Queenstown. https://imgur.com/a/CIQxu0l Hope you're all well.
My hair went thin pretty rapidly from age 23 to 24. I don't think about it at all until someone else mentions it.
I've finally been hopping back on here after swapping out my Raspberry Pi3 for an old craigslist desktop. I definitely missed reading the discussions. In other news, I've started to learn to program in C and am having a minor existential crisis regarding my work/career/life direction in general. I've also been reading a ton lately, and strongly recommend John Gardner's Grendel and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle to all of you.
Been a lot of changes recently, reconnected with an old fling from about 5 years ago, has been a very refreshing change of positive energy compared to relationships I've been in over the past few years. I am hoping it continues to go well. I was driving a beater around and unwilling to sink money into it, I don't know if it was my brakes, tire, driving or just unavoidable but the beater is dead. I was driving in the rain and a car slammed on their brakes after cutting me off to make an exit forcing me to do the same and I spun out across 2 lanes into a highway divider. Used wire leftover from a job to secure my bumper and headlight but the car died about ten miles later. Fortunately it forced to bite the bullet and get a new car, so I am now the stoked owner of a 2010 RAV4. I'm excited to make it a camping mobile and try over landing a bit once the weather warms back up. Hope everyone here is doing as best as they can be or working towards it.
