always carry an umbrella just in case it rains!
Hello friends! The world is still garbage and as I'm writing this there is a massive storm going on outside but I got to sit and gossip about work, life, and many more things with coworkers and I forgot how delightful that feels! Sure, chatting with y'all about people who makes me want to tear my deep-conditioned hair out is nice but there's something so freeing about not having to explain how bad the person is before just screaming into the void.
Is there something that you haven't done recently from the before times that you didn't even realized you missed? While I will never go back into the office (ick! yuck! I hate!), I do miss staring across my cubicle row locking eyes with someone where we could both tell that this was some bullshit before deciding to grab a coffee to analyze how much bullshit that was. Can we immediately Facetime right after and discuss? Yes. Can we text through it? Yes. But it's hard to do a look during a group call!
Unrelated but, yesterday during the pouring rain, I had some time and walked to grab dinner. On my way, I complimented a woman's outfit (I love doing that! It brings joy to people's faces and I get to see what cute outfits look like), and later, while I and another woman who didn't have any umbrella stood waiting to cross the street, I covered her from the rain, even if only for a bit. She was so lovely and so thankful to not be rained on that we chatted for a bit before we could cross.
Wow! I forgot how much I like interacting with people. :) It's almost like I've been locked away in Queens for the better part of two fucking years and forgot how to deal with human beings at all.
Ahem.
But I say this both in a "hey! the world is garbage but be nice to yourself!" as a positive note but also as a holy shit please be kind to yourself? My girl Anne Helen Petersen wrote her latest newsletter about how the stress of Covid is just truly wrecking havoc on so many people's bodies, and now it's so fun to learn where my random zits and insomnia come from! Everything is so bad and we've been compartmentalizing it for over two years and there's only so much gritting our teeth and bearing it we can do before we grit our teeth too hard and crack some! Don't do that! (Also here's a thread from that summarizes the article if you need it even quicker.)
I (finally) checked out The Body Keeps the Score from the library (truly the book of the moment as it took over A YEAR TO GET ME OFF THE HOLD LIST) but I'm excited to see if there's something that will help me as I am so burnt out that I'm googling "post burnout, now what?"
But if you, my lovely friends, have a chance to get a group together and shit talk things you hate while you're drinking delicious drinks? I recommend! I highly recommend. :)
Recommendations for this week.
Is there something that you haven't done recently from the before times that you didn't even realized you missed? While I will never go back into the office (ick! yuck! I hate!), I do miss staring across my cubicle row locking eyes with someone where we could both tell that this was some bullshit before deciding to grab a coffee to analyze how much bullshit that was. Can we immediately Facetime right after and discuss? Yes. Can we text through it? Yes. But it's hard to do a look during a group call!
Unrelated but, yesterday during the pouring rain, I had some time and walked to grab dinner. On my way, I complimented a woman's outfit (I love doing that! It brings joy to people's faces and I get to see what cute outfits look like), and later, while I and another woman who didn't have any umbrella stood waiting to cross the street, I covered her from the rain, even if only for a bit. She was so lovely and so thankful to not be rained on that we chatted for a bit before we could cross.
Wow! I forgot how much I like interacting with people. :) It's almost like I've been locked away in Queens for the better part of two fucking years and forgot how to deal with human beings at all.
Ahem.
But I say this both in a "hey! the world is garbage but be nice to yourself!" as a positive note but also as a holy shit please be kind to yourself? My girl Anne Helen Petersen wrote her latest newsletter about how the stress of Covid is just truly wrecking havoc on so many people's bodies, and now it's so fun to learn where my random zits and insomnia come from! Everything is so bad and we've been compartmentalizing it for over two years and there's only so much gritting our teeth and bearing it we can do before we grit our teeth too hard and crack some! Don't do that! (Also here's a thread from that summarizes the article if you need it even quicker.)
I (finally) checked out The Body Keeps the Score from the library (truly the book of the moment as it took over A YEAR TO GET ME OFF THE HOLD LIST) but I'm excited to see if there's something that will help me as I am so burnt out that I'm googling "post burnout, now what?"
But if you, my lovely friends, have a chance to get a group together and shit talk things you hate while you're drinking delicious drinks? I recommend! I highly recommend. :)
Recommendations for this week.
- Apparently the American dub wanted to rename Totoro as Craig. You know - My Neighbor Craig? I hate it.
- There's a fascinating article about being lonely and the writer brought up the primordial soup that is Neon Genesis Evangelion and while I agree that it's an excellent point as NGE is all about loneliness and how one can harness it and/or what to do when your father only wanted you around to pilot a giant mecha, should anyone ever bring up NGE? What a strange show! What a very weird piece of media.
- Guess what comes out tomorrow!?! A new season of The Boys, starring my wonderful future husband, Karl Urban! (I'll tell him eventually). But here is an interesting article about the series as well as how the Lord of the Rings trilogy really helped Urban to break into the US. And because I'm not biased at all, here's an article about the show in general, which is also quite excellent and chats with the other cast members while they look fabulous in some great outfits.
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