... I don't even know what I would pick as my ADHD icon tbh

[spindizzy]

• LexGarrett and I both had our first covid jabs! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! It ended up shaking out that Lex got his before I got mine, despite getting his text about it after I did, but mine was through the doctor's surgery and his was a general NHS one. I had the Pfizer one, and the main thing I noticed afterwards was that my arm ached when I raised it until like Saturday. I think it was intramuscular? So it makes sense. MORE IMPORTANTLY THOUGH: I got a sticker!


• sithe and I watched a movie called Agency of Vengeance: Darkness Rising, and I think it was meant to be a parody? Or at least it makes more sense if it's a deliberately bad parody than it does if it's an actual movie that involves at least three fights where the female characters are in lingerie and chains.


• APPARENTLY what it takes for me to be able to do things is starting them in the morning when I still have action points. Inconvenient.


• I have a new mindless project at work, because they need people to reformat all of the reading lists! I've had my first session and it seems to be straightforward so far, which is INCREDIBLY suspicious. As far as I can tell, they're using two versions of the same software, but they only want to do the maintenance for one, so mindless busy-work for meeeeeeeeeeeee. ... Plus, I now have access to a shitload of course materials on moodle, and all my brain is doing is playing the anti-piracy ads like "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL AN EDUCATION."


• The Second Grand Unfuckening is still ongoing. There are still books everywhere while I get things wrapped to send out, but once that's done, I should have enough space to actually start moving my crafting supplies out of the living room and into the bedroom!


• ... I might need to smuggle a couple of the boxes into work to weigh them on the post scales here, because I'm not sure how I'm going to balance them on my bitty kitchen scales.


• (I have a piles of like four parcels that just need taping closed and stamping. That's it. Come on executive function, work with me here.)


• Listen, I'm not saying that the building where the architecture and engineering departments are based is the worst building on campus to make your way around. I AM saying that I'd rather pay someone to print out patterns in A0 size and post them to me than figure out that maze AND whether I can do enough light fraud to actually print off all of these patterns. ... Also that's apparently just a thing! That you can do! No trekking out to a print-shop required! The one I tried out is Netprinter, and it is expensive but honestly worth it to not have to tape a shitload of A4 pieces of paper together.


• Current work drama: one of the managers noticed that someone had started disassembling one of the customer bathrooms on... Saturday? And it is still in pieces today. And Estates haven't mentioned that they're coming out to do anything with the bathrooms, so... Whose tools are these and why are there doors and sinks disconnected from the wall?


• On the brain weasel front... You know the scene in Inside Out where Joy is flopping around on the floor pretending to be Sadness? That's basically the stage I'm at! I feel better enough that when the depression kicks off I can do the "mentally repeating everything it says in a silly voice while swooning melodramatically" and make myself laugh! But the depression is still kicking off, so fuck me I guess.


• ... I'm being unfair. We had ACTUAL SUN recently, and oh god I could feel myself powering up! It was amazing! Unfortunately, I live in England, so there was maybe three days of being amazing and now we've hit our sunlight cap until April.


• Somehow managed to misplace every single headphone wire I own, which is slightly hampering my attempts to finish Hades. It's INCREDIBLY Misplacer Beast; I know I definitely had them at the bottom of the stairs, but I didn't have them when I got to the top. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


• Going to do surgery on one of my bras, because I've snapped one of the underwires while stretching, but I might be able to buy a replacement if the actual size number of the wire hasn't worn off! ... Listen, it was one of the most comfortable bras I've owned. I could NAP while wearing that bra. And I don't want to do the "order -> check what bastard sizing this manufacturer is doing -> return" dance in a pandemic. Surgery it is!


• THEORETICALLY, Kobo is going to be giving out the points per book read in February things tomorrow, so I am keeping an impatient eye on my inbox. GIVE ME MY FUTURE BOOKS, KOBO, I AM READY. ... Okay, I'm not ready, I haven't figured out what I'm spending them on because I don't understand the points to pounds conversion rate, but I still want to be validated.


• I've started knitting a blanket and oh god I forgot how quickly super chunky wool knits up. *__* I'm using a Lion Brand "I wanna make a blankie" ball, so it's 800g of yarn in one enormous package.

Okay, I need to hang out laundry and work myself down this scale of overstimulated so that I can actually sleep. No bad decisions book club today! I'm determined!

Narrator voice: She lied, like a liar.