Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.
Aug. 25th, 2024 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonMost geographically notable: I flew out to California on Monday and back on Thursday. Logistically, a lot of small things went wrong -- each one surmountable, sure, but nothing about the trip was on autopilot. Emotionally I was tired, sad, lonely and worried, and then I came home. I did, at least, get a full workout in on one of those days. But... that was also the day my squirrel got blindsided and mistreated at work in a way that made me furious. I couldn't help, I had to stay there and continue with our mini-summit, which felt a little like playing make-believe since it was all one reorg behind reality and we know there's another one coming. Still, I was happy enough to see folks in person and bond a little better with my new PM.
Finished listening to Animal Liberation Now, whose call to action I was ultimately disappointed with. Flew home. Immediately set myself to ineffectually comforting the poor squirrel, as well as having work computer troubles so bad that I finally had to reimage my laptop. OH YES AND ALSO, apparently my dad's wife is suddenly almost half blind, because it turns out that age-related macular degeneration has a speed-running mode!? And also my gym buddy just failed to get pregnant with her one and only female embryo and is heartbroken? Very few things are going well right now in my circles.
So a tiny bit of coverage for the thing that is. Last week I said My only hope is that JD "postmenopausal females" Vance continues to make amusing headlines. And he did -- he visited a donut shop, which itself later posted "We never realized how skilled our customers are at ordering doughnuts, until today." Hah! On the other side, I watched several of the DNC speeches with the squirrel and then got some education from the Harris campaign with the bug. That Kamala Harris is fierce y'all, and she wants to win -- her speech went straight for the center.
Finished listening to Animal Liberation Now, whose call to action I was ultimately disappointed with. Flew home. Immediately set myself to ineffectually comforting the poor squirrel, as well as having work computer troubles so bad that I finally had to reimage my laptop. OH YES AND ALSO, apparently my dad's wife is suddenly almost half blind, because it turns out that age-related macular degeneration has a speed-running mode!? And also my gym buddy just failed to get pregnant with her one and only female embryo and is heartbroken? Very few things are going well right now in my circles.
So a tiny bit of coverage for the thing that is. Last week I said My only hope is that JD "postmenopausal females" Vance continues to make amusing headlines. And he did -- he visited a donut shop, which itself later posted "We never realized how skilled our customers are at ordering doughnuts, until today." Hah! On the other side, I watched several of the DNC speeches with the squirrel and then got some education from the Harris campaign with the bug. That Kamala Harris is fierce y'all, and she wants to win -- her speech went straight for the center.
