I’ve been pretty depressed by the current political atmosphere in the US, lately, and living in a more conservative area of my state makes it even more alienating. Today, I went to a left wing book fair at a city I’m considering moving to, and it was an amazing change of scenery.
This week is going well! Work week went smoothly, and I have a three day weekend, which is shaping up nicely. Yesterday I had a much needed mostly lazy day and met up with friends for beers in the evening. Today I’m going to a drumming workshop this morning and then a burlesque show tonight. Tomorrow is a walk and lunch with a friend.
ooo! A drumming workshop sounds fun, what happens in them? Really want to learn the drums, it looks so freeing, trying to master solo playing on guitar rn tho hah
It was with a teacher who’s originally from Ghana but lives in the US now, showing us how they approach drumming where he’s from. It was a great workshop, I wish it had been longer!
I bench tested my van Diesel heater two nights ago, providing minimal interaction ahead of deconstruction due to available space and installation last night in preparation for today’s cold front. Thankfully, after drilling holes through the wheel box, everything just worked when tested. With the knowledge that project was out of the way, I slept better than in several days.
Here’s probably where I also mention I gave my two weeks’ notice Friday. I could put up with the tedious unrewarding duties for pay so low 22 years into my career that I’m homeless by choice, but my boss’ communication is atrocious in ways I’ve never run into, like having to know what unrelated word she meant when using another one and then getting yelled at for answering the question as asked. She’s married to the owner, putting the kibosh on coming to a reasonable agreement.
I had to do this for two reasons that are probably related: I was starting to feel crazy since I couldn’t actually turn to a coworker and say anything when they were in the room, and I was starting to justify reasons to drink. That’s a hard limit after 18 months of sobriety.
The somewhat better news is “threatening sobriety” is the magic phrase, as I met the owner … 18 months ago … in detox. Upshot is I’m getting a parting bonus of nearly a month since the holidays are slow for hiring. My job was the only thing tying me to Austin now that I’m leaseless, so I will have far more options than I did when lockdown hit two months after leaving my last job.
I like my little home on wheels. It’s a plenty-big stepvan that I can walk around in, it’s well insulated, and it’s been as a project the only reason I started having a social life for the first time this decade. I park in a light industrial area that shutters for the night but is well lit, and I parked there for two months before the conversion even started, so I’m an expected part of the area and haven’t been bothered yet, three weeks in.
But if this transition was major on its own, adding a likely move and total change of field will put it at the most sudden shift measured in months since moving off to college in the '90s.
I’m feeling so burnt out at work. I work for a religious org and sometimes I really hate it. I would like a career change but starting out somewhere else looks like I’d have to take a pay cut at first and I live in a very expensive city and am barely getting by as it is. I see some other great jobs I’m qualified for but they’d require relocation and my kid is going to a special high school related to their career choice so I don’t think we should move.
Took part in a work provided health check, and was pleasantly surprised. My cholesterol levels need to be better, but other than that I’m actually in pretty good shape! It’s nice to get some good news once in a while.
Other than that, I’m in a general good mood. Feel like I’m a bit more in sync between my internal and external self, if that makes any sense :)
I use sync for lemmy personally. With that app, you can filter out posts by instance. So if you put lemmy.ml, I believe that would block all posts from lemmy.ml communities
You could also use the subscribed view to only show communities you’re subscribed to. The next version of Lemmy will have a filter to block communities on an instance basis.
Is there any timeline on said version? The two options being minimal content (subscribed) or unpleasant firehose was an astoundingly poor choice as a starting point. Serendipity without the bullshit is juuuuuuuust right.
Soon, probably. Been in beta for a while. But I subscribed to a lot of communities back when I was using Lemmy federated, didn’t really have minimal content.
General week has been alright, news not so good between the UK government going after Trans people again as well as the Internet being a bad place to be publicly out I'd say that's the bad side of things.
Eh, could be better. Just today I saw that the bakery I often go to won’t open on Saturday due to some tragic loss. I haven’t seen one of the usual staff there in a while. I don’t want to ask about it and she is/was(?) somewhat young so it could just be a coincidence and she found a different/better job and that PSA wasn’t about her.
I have decided that I really need to get better at networking if I’m gonna get anywhere in life. Problem is I have social anxiety and zero clue how to talk to people.
Do you think it could help your social anxiety if you were playing a character different from yours?
I’m thinking about honing your networking skills under the guise of being in cosplay and in character at conventions. Once that went well a couple times, you could slowly transition to less and less cosplay character and more your general self? Just spitting ideas while on the toilet at work hah
I’ve reached the conclusion that networking events are society’s practice setting for becoming more sociable, since you sure has hell aren’t ever hearing back about an opening. It’s performative bullshit theatre; treat it as such (relax) and find amusement in those taking it seriously.
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