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first things first
this is an introductory post, and should not be taken seriously
what's a fun thing going on these days??
are y'all familiar with something called music league? it's this set-up where every week there is a prompt, and everyone participating in the league submits a song (from spot^fy, ugh) that they think best fits that prompt. once everyone has submitted, you have a few days to listen to the generated playlist, and then vote (positively and negatively) and comment on all of the tracks. i've been playing on and off for like a year with some dear friends, and frankly, it has remained a consistent highlight of my life. i really like have something like this to tie all of our lives together. anyway, this week's theme was "what does it feel like to be digested?" and the resulting playlist may be my favorite out of the several dozen themes we've been through.
my pick for the standout track on the playlist here.
what's a stressful thing going on these days??
being deemed an "essential" worker when i work in a luxury coffee shop! of course, given the utter callousness of the ruling class, it would be super stressful to not be working right now too. to be fair, as far as service industry jobs go, mine is safer than many. but i still encounter multiple people every shift who clearly just do not care about people who are serving them.
please, if you are getting takeout, find out if that business offers some sort of contact-free pickup, and use that. if they don't, find out who is in charge and advocate for them to do so. it is not worth it otherwise. the employees who are not freely choosing to be out in public will appreciate it. also, tip as heavily as possible. no one is getting hazard pay anymore (if they ever did in the first place), and (in my experience) workers are not seeing the elevated tip rates that were present earlier in the pandemic.
what are some pleasant things going on these days??
- kat and i put a christmas tree in our bedroom, and it smells really great every time i walk into the room!
- we're meeting some of our neighbors and they're cool!
- i have the attention span to read books lately!
- i got a desk with a lot of drawers for our office!
it's monday now, what's going on this week?
well, i got a covid test this morning (i do so with some regularity because i work in public) and watched some workers cut down a decades old tree in front of our house that had been damaged by a bad storm we had over the summer (it actually took out some of the porch when the top fell!). through the rest of the week, i'll be working, attending a (i think just one??) meeting, getting groceries (curbside, baby), doing some ASL-English interpreting practice, and spending more time learning How To Use A Computer (a recent undertaking of mine, i am still learning command line interface). i'll probably finish this book i've been reading, the orange eats creeps by grace krilanovich. maybe i'll play around some more with the arduino that kat gave me for my birthday.
anything else??
yeah! thanks for meeting me halfway in this relationship business.
wanna start a music league with me? wanna talk about how we wish the internet was used? wanna vent about the whole "essential" worker thing? wanna exchange recommendations on something??
send me a message!
also, here is my current favorite image.
