Melbourne

I've achieved my dream finally.

Playing drums to my own guitar tracks.

I can't explain how fucking cool this is, even as a fairly shit drummer lol

I got 2 callbacks from applications I put in yesterday!

Fuck yeah.

Went into Aldi and forgot to buy apple strudel. The shame! The shame!

I decided to take a deep breath, steel myself and have a look through my supervisor's revision - half the intro was basically rewritten but it does at least flow better and the points made aren't substantially different. The discussion needs a big boost though. It's doable. But I'm leaving it to tomorrow. For now, I am going to have a nice hot dinner of paratha and some super spicy prawn curry, have a hot shower, and then burrow in bed to do some nyt word puzzles with brown noise until I fall asleep.

Tomorrow's game plan is 1. Finalise my slides with the improved logic flow from thesis; 2. Rehearse slides to make sure I'm not way over time; 3. Do some writing and reading if I have time; 4. Presentation of doom; 5. Continue writing

There's some real gremlins in my brain playing the old classics on repeat from bad academic experiences of the past but I ain't giving them a voice today. There's work to be done once this is all over, for sure.

Deadline is technically Monday but supervisor also thinks I can get this across the line before COB Friday so we're gonna fucking do it and I can truly relax on the weekend

Argh, supervisor has already done a very quick review of thesis. I'm way too brain dead to look at it today and take on the emotional damage - I'm going to go to bed early tonight and have another crack tomorrow morning before prepping for the preso in the afternoon. Apparently I still do need to add more references and beef up the discussion but I also kind of don't wannaaaaaa. I'm so done with reading dense academic articles about stuff I don't really care that much about...

I can feel the freezing air coming through the window of my home office. It's very gentle but it's there. I think it's more obvious today because of how cold it is and maybe the direction of the wind is the right angle of south as this is a south-facing room. Must counteract with heating ($$$).

Got my first offering from the local wild magpies today in the form of a finger lime.

Looking for any tips on how to teach them what credit cards look like and why they're a better offering. Should I pretend to eat a credit card next time they're here or something?

Started making dinner at 7pm, bad idea. Just sat down after getting through dish mountain and cleaning up around the place. I made chicken katsu curry for the first time, will be adding that to my stale dinner rotation.

I’m honestly exhausted. I think it’s bedtime

Loads I could be doing at work but my brain Just. Doesn’t. Want. To.

Felt so cranky that I even went and sat in my car in my lunchbreak so that no one could talk to me.

Pretty sure it’s the weather’s fault! Might go for a swim tonight and see if that cheers me up at all.

Pray for me this afternoon when I'm outside.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't studying and could go home like the rest of my family and just relax. I just want to get this shit done and relax for two weeks.

The course I'm doing is known for being "easy" academically, but I'm on track to failing a subject unless I get 85% in one of the assessments. I'm submitting everything late, if at all.

I guess there's no point in worrying now, and I just have to power through and cross the failing bridge when I come to it.

I don't want to cook. Venturing into the wet ... in my Purple Wooly Cape!

weather took me by surprise, had the wrong coat on, no hat , no gloves, thankfully I had on a big wool scarf

shopping went well, I got some boots that are pretty roomy so should be good for hiking in nz👍

( new make up palette did not work out, the silver eyeshadow looked so shiny and bright and light, put it on and it was a dull grey that really accentuated the dark rings under my eyes 😵‍💫)

and today I saw a gentleman wearing a bowler hat and a bespoke english cut suit

Before Sunset thoughts: ahhhhhhhhhh

That was a nice little distraction.

4/5 Hobbits.

Goodnight everyone, I'm tired as. Gonna do my usual and fall asleep now and wake up in the early hours..

not too warm here, brr

No one in my team was in the office today so I had a sneaky extended lunch break to pick up my Rock Pi. I might try Home Assistant on it if there's a working image.

just a heads up for those into That Sort of Thing: Bunnings are tossing out the TPlink p100 and P150 smart sockets for 16 each, and yes they are fully compatible with home assistant and can run offline once you've set them up.

Just don't try to find them at the moorabbins bunnings, someone already cleared them out.

cough.

I watch and read a lot of essays and pods and stuff about movie and tv and one thing I notice is that writers like to effusively write about all the influences and all the references to other works, books and movies and art, in a movie or show.

I would love to sit and discuss with an average real person who doesn't make tv or movies and we can find all the artistic and literary references they have spoken or written that day in the course of their everyday life.

because art is every where and in everyone's everyday lives, they just forgot

Had ticket inspectors on the tram do our tickets, get off at Anzac station, then a new crew of em got on at the next stop 🤣 be careful on st Kilda Rd today guys!