OMG this month has been killing me. My boss warned me I'd have a "very tough month" but fuuuuuuuuuuck. I went from being reasonably busy to being EXTREMELY BUSY and then a few crises fell on my head and oh my god.

The madness was supposed to end last week, but of course it's been extended until Dec 1st. On the one hand, I keep thinking - just one ( Read more... )

So, the ~discourse around this show seems to have calmed down, which means I can slip in and calmly lay out some of my thoughts.

I will say that I intended to only watch this show once the entire season was out, and due to some subterfuge from
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So, beloved flatmate R., who is a lifelong Star Wars fan who knows the books, animation stuff, etc etc, and I, who has watched only 1 of the original SW trilogy (and everything post original trilogy) finished watching The Mandalorian!

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would! Consider I'm coming to this IP with basically no particular fondness ( Read more... )

OK, this is the second post about the podcast, but it'll be the last one for about a month!

After an endless amount of dithering I've ~let go~ and posted the first episode of Pop Culture Sociologist.

You can listed to it at the link (as it seems DW doesn't allow embeds from Podbean) or on your favorite podcast app (Spotify, Apple, etc). The topic ( Read more... )

I've been sick for the third week in a row. Basically, as soon as a super stressful time with job interviews and things ended, a period when I was ON all the time, stayed up until 5am every day, and worked non-stop, I came down with a stomach thing that's been somewhere between manageable and a complete knockout for almost 3 weeks.

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Dear diary, it has been almost a week since I finished isolation.

The good news is that I'm alive and well and did not get sick. The bad news is that this week (the world, the country) has been absolutely bonkers.

Isolation really damaged my mental health in a way that a global pandemic and being unemployed for the first time since undergrad did not ( Read more... )

1. Had an absolutely atrocious day today, to the point where I felt pretty destroyed by the afternoon and decided to take the rest of the day to rest and recover, something that I can apparently do now that I'm unemployed. What a miracle.

2. Had a bunch of interviews that my pessimistic brain is certain will not work out. The same part of my brain ( Read more... )

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Well, at least I got word that I'm not going to work tomorrow! I actually do have enough paid leave to be OK for the next month (especially with the upcoming holidays) which is the current deadline for my work to resume, but we'll see ( Read more... )

1. I saw the Star War. ( spoilers )