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• OOF! Catch up time!

  September 7, 2024

  Too much to do and not enough time and I'm struggling to even get started on this mountain of tasks. Gotta eat the elephant one bite at a time. I'm aiming to get one thing in each category of things done today. Stuff for project A:  Item 1:  (no specifics as I can't actively talk…

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• Apprenticeship starts tomorow

  August 11, 2024

  I should be excited. I'm close to being done with this stuff I've been working so hard on for so long. I have so much to do for tomorrow. I don't want to do any of it. I wish I could skip this part and just be done. I want a paying job again. Though…

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• I just won robots after I stopped renouncing my tech background.

  April 8, 2024

  Yup, pretty much the title. I missed out on a pretty big opportunity for many reasons at the end of last year. I recently found out that part of it was that I "didn't have a strong tech background," this was around a month ago and a part of me is still internally screaming. For…

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• reference labs suck

  February 1, 2024

  I hate them. I hate radiology too. Thank goodness I at least have a phlebotomist at my new dr's office (not the best phlebotomist but at least at today's blood draw there was no blood trickling down my arm like last time--maybe they're learning). A mediocre phlebotomist at a dr's office is far su...

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• Brief Commission

  January 26, 2024

  Amazing how earning a small sum doing stuff you're good at can make you feel. My friend reached out asking if I could do some editing for them. I've edited a lot of their projects in the past. In the beginning, I did it gratis. Then, one day, overwhelmed, unemployed, and depressed AF, I said…

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• New FRIEND!

  August 15, 2023

  OK OK OK, Friendly Acquaintance.  I'm a hot mess today. Total hot mess. It's mid-morning now. I'm kinda dirty and gross and I have no idea what I need to do today but whatever it is, I haven't started. Seriously, y'all, HOT MESS! Usually, I'm at least somewhat put together when I leave the house....

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• Continuing to survive my decisions

  August 7, 2023

  Ah Grad School, that wonderous, and not-so-wonderous decision that I made at the beginning of this year!  It was all going well until April. I had a 6-week long class with a professor I hated, and content I hated that was deeply offensive and incorrect. I survived with my 4.0 somehow intact. I've...

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• Struggling

  April 29, 2023

  So far, I have a 4.0 in my Master's program. This might be the class that breaks me.  I am also stretched too thin and over-committed and everything is suffering. If I can just finish some things, I can get some things off of my plate and that will fix the problem at least in…

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• Grad school, teaching, exploring

  February 26, 2023

  Grad school so far is going well. I found out after submitting the assignment that inspired a panic attack that the bar was way lower than I anticipated. The bar for the stressful video assignment was literally, "did the student wear clothes."  I was in professional attire. My hair was a little f...

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