With a Gingko on my knee
May. 5th, 2025 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newredshoesSaid Gingko has been majorly shedding, in ways that surprise me and that I apparently cannot keep up with, so I have made the hilarious-to-me decision to buy a Roomba. The website is having a Mother's Day sale, and Rakuten is adding on a 15% cashback feature today, apparently, so I got a $470 robot vacuum for, effectively, $255. Further big problems: I genuinely need headphones I like and which I can use to take calls, and Bose is one of those brands that's in on the Rakuten thing, making these babies a mere $212 instead of $349.
Can I justify it? I genuinely have no idea what my work situation will look like a month from now. My contract has been extended for May, but the company is a mess right now from reorganizations and buyouts, plus there's all this from the outside. I've applied for a few jobs, but at least one of the organizations where I submitted a resume just announced a bunch of layoffs, and I haven't heard anything from the job I really cared about, to which I applied a few weeks ago. I don't know how or whether to reach out to freelance contacts, because there have been some real mixed messages about how much my present gig wants to keep me on (everyone who works with me says I'm desperately needed! everyone with any power of the purse is stonewalling me!).
Another problem: I would love to get back to writing stuff for Excited Mark! ( Why is this an issue? It shouldn't be an issue, and yet. )
I still have a lot of chewing to do, I guess, and Gingko has hopped off the couch and is tragically wimpering to go out again, so. I'll leave it there. But I do need to write more about other things, like why Deng Wei is taking over all my mental real estate and why you should watch Love of the Divine Tree. (I have thought about doing episode thoughts and writeups as premium ~content! But I have to have the time for it. Again: love 2 be in limbo for literally everything.) Okay, the girl waits for no one, after a certain point!
Can I justify it? I genuinely have no idea what my work situation will look like a month from now. My contract has been extended for May, but the company is a mess right now from reorganizations and buyouts, plus there's all this from the outside. I've applied for a few jobs, but at least one of the organizations where I submitted a resume just announced a bunch of layoffs, and I haven't heard anything from the job I really cared about, to which I applied a few weeks ago. I don't know how or whether to reach out to freelance contacts, because there have been some real mixed messages about how much my present gig wants to keep me on (everyone who works with me says I'm desperately needed! everyone with any power of the purse is stonewalling me!).
Another problem: I would love to get back to writing stuff for Excited Mark! ( Why is this an issue? It shouldn't be an issue, and yet. )
I still have a lot of chewing to do, I guess, and Gingko has hopped off the couch and is tragically wimpering to go out again, so. I'll leave it there. But I do need to write more about other things, like why Deng Wei is taking over all my mental real estate and why you should watch Love of the Divine Tree. (I have thought about doing episode thoughts and writeups as premium ~content! But I have to have the time for it. Again: love 2 be in limbo for literally everything.) Okay, the girl waits for no one, after a certain point!
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May. 5th, 2025 05:20 amsettiaiRaise your hand if you were abruptly woken up after about three-and-a-half hours of sleep by a blaring fire alarm and had to throw on clothes/hang around outside with all your neighbors while the fire department showed up to verify it was just a faulty sensor again?
Just me, huh? 🙃
On the one hand, I know that I desperately need to try to get some more sleep if I'm going to survive work today. I'm wide awake for obvious reasons, though, so I'm really doubtful that I'll manage it.
I'm going to try to force myself to fall back to sleep by 6am, as that will at least give me another hour-and-half of sleep if I switch my alarm to 7:30am. If I'm still awake by 6am, I think that I'm going to give up on the attempt.
Garrus at least came out from under the bed relatively quickly once the alarm started blaring, but Keyleth is still under there and refusing to come out. They always switch up which one gets over it faster.
Just me, huh? 🙃
On the one hand, I know that I desperately need to try to get some more sleep if I'm going to survive work today. I'm wide awake for obvious reasons, though, so I'm really doubtful that I'll manage it.
I'm going to try to force myself to fall back to sleep by 6am, as that will at least give me another hour-and-half of sleep if I switch my alarm to 7:30am. If I'm still awake by 6am, I think that I'm going to give up on the attempt.
Garrus at least came out from under the bed relatively quickly once the alarm started blaring, but Keyleth is still under there and refusing to come out. They always switch up which one gets over it faster.
