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Dec. 4th, 2018 11:32 am
December 4th, 2018 Daily
Special day at work - choosing our on-call shifts for 2019. We go by seniority and some of the more senior people actually hassled the least senior employees (like, snapping their fingers and groaning) for taking too long. And to be clear, this happened during the sign-up time reserved for the least senior employees, the more senior people showed up 15 minutes early and thought this was appropriate behavior. Yet another example of "one person's good, clean fun is another's toxic work environment". Useful in that I made a note to never make an internal transfer to a Certain Person's supervisory area.
Between this and Tumblr, I think I might finally have motivation to make a therapy appointment.
Books
Lost my reading mojo sometime last week and am slowing watching my library ebooks expire. Sorry guys, maybe next time. I was/am making good progress through Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor), but this morning was thrown by the line, "Those who excel at this must have fast hands and superb spatial skills. Males possess this skill in greater quantities then females." in an instructional book that Sunny and her friends are using. Now, the narrative has already made clear that the female protagonist is quite skilled physically, and that books can be unreliable and biased. I might just need clearer confirmation in this case, that Okorafor was was again making the "don't believe everything you read" point, because this one cut deep.
Crafting
Working to finish a cross-stitch piece for a friend's nursery, then I can go back to my poor neglected knitting. I'm already thinking about the next piece of cross-stitch, of course, a series of cacti for what will be my mom's room in my house once she retires. And maybe something fannish (Harry Potter, likely) for a hopeful friend. And maybe something MCU for myself, if I can find the right pattern/inspiration. And maybe a redo of the first piece I ever did, a quote from the Losers (2010). And and and...
Aikido
Scored a private weapons lesson yesterday, since most of the usual suspects were at a seminar out-of-state. Finished a jo vs. bokken kata that we've been working on, as well as some of the tanto tori techniques I'll need for my 3rd-kyuu test in May.
Between this and Tumblr, I think I might finally have motivation to make a therapy appointment.
Books
Lost my reading mojo sometime last week and am slowing watching my library ebooks expire. Sorry guys, maybe next time. I was/am making good progress through Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor), but this morning was thrown by the line, "Those who excel at this must have fast hands and superb spatial skills. Males possess this skill in greater quantities then females." in an instructional book that Sunny and her friends are using. Now, the narrative has already made clear that the female protagonist is quite skilled physically, and that books can be unreliable and biased. I might just need clearer confirmation in this case, that Okorafor was was again making the "don't believe everything you read" point, because this one cut deep.
Crafting
Working to finish a cross-stitch piece for a friend's nursery, then I can go back to my poor neglected knitting. I'm already thinking about the next piece of cross-stitch, of course, a series of cacti for what will be my mom's room in my house once she retires. And maybe something fannish (Harry Potter, likely) for a hopeful friend. And maybe something MCU for myself, if I can find the right pattern/inspiration. And maybe a redo of the first piece I ever did, a quote from the Losers (2010). And and and...
Aikido
Scored a private weapons lesson yesterday, since most of the usual suspects were at a seminar out-of-state. Finished a jo vs. bokken kata that we've been working on, as well as some of the tanto tori techniques I'll need for my 3rd-kyuu test in May.
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