Happy Friday cobbas. I got up on time this morning and decided to rug up and WALK to work at 7:45am - and feeling really proud of myself! It’s only 2kms and almost a straight line basically. Unsurprisingly, I feel a whole lot better than I would’ve today given the amount of work that’s turned up on my plate. I will definitely be doing it again, great way to roll some exercise into the day, like I used to before I had a licence and car.

Back home and had the energy to put together a kung pao chicken with mock meat. Still got a fair bit of pep in my step which is unusal. Putting together my to do list and this weekend will involve a whole lot of Adult Responsibilities. I was gonna catch up with a friend to break it up but they’ve got the 'vid so I wonder what else I could do instead (that doesnt involve a screen) so I don’t feel like the weekend is all work and no fun.

Oh man I would take so many lemons off you, craving a good homegrown lemon and honey drink.

Some kinds of music really have an effect on my brain - just allows me to settle without realising it. It’s such a good way of reorganising the gunk

Far out that was a long day. 10 solid hours of work, on green tea only (really not cutting it), plus a lot of faffing around with getting locked in the office building because I stayed so late… It’s too early in my job to start pulling long hours. But I’m telling myself it’s a once off due to a particular combination of unanticipated things. That, and I want to do half day on Monday for cake related reasons, so it’s Strategic. I will NOT let it be a pattern! I have Boundaries.

It’s too much of a bleah day, and the second night in a row I can’t use my shower because the landlord messed up their emails telling me it was gonna get re-caulked or something yesterday (and I just rolled over and said OK even though I had basically zero notice and can’t use my shower for 36 hours). Too peopled out to ask a friend to use theirs. Just retreating to bed with a cuppa and a pitiful mood and gonna have a yarn to my auntie interstate to feel a bit more at ease

Such a far cry from the days when it was hard to find Far Side comics online because Gary Larson didn’t like it. The genie has long since been out of the bottle. We had a big collection at home growing up and there are so many cultural/environmental references I only began to understand in my 20s.

Times like this I just want to retreat to a hidey hole in the countryside and spend time with birds and possums and let the whingers of mass destruction live in their moonscapes so neither of us have to deal with each other…

Weather has cleared to a beautiful day but it’s doing very little to dent my absolute disdain for humankind today. Greedy, shortsighted, self-absorbed, no thoughts for anything other than their own convenience and comfort. So many of our species don’t deserve planet Earth. I truly wish I could send a good chunk of people off to another planet with no pesky insects, grass, trees, water courses, and other such outrageously offensive items, and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.

I hate that today was one of my 6:30am wakeup days, it was torture getting out of bed.

It can’t be that cold, I’m only wearing two layers!*

* one is an 800-fill down jacket that is normally overkill for Melbourne

Getting my licence and a car a few years ago definitely made me realise how much I relied on incidental walking for my well-being… having a car has been terrible for my health because of my current lack of self control 😮‍💨

I was absolutely famished when I got home and noodled around on my phone in my car (seriously, does anyone else here just love spending ages sat in the car after coming home? I live alone, but procrastinating in the car hits differently.)

But despite that and the cold I am proud to say I walked a TINY BIT today (650m each way to the Further Shops and back) when I didn’t have to, as a form of self care that I am usually too negligent to engage in. Maybe I might do it again tomorrow. Take a more circuitous route. I’m so sedentary… I do miss field work :(

Goodnight, I should be hitting the hay too because I need to leave the house by 7am tomorrow, but I had too much tea… 😒

Gotta pay for transport though and our guy is too young to have a licence.

Yay: got some exciting news about some uni study I’ve put off for years and can finally complete. I can exercise my brain in ways I never could at work

Nay: I kind of forgot about it because it was in limbo for months, so now I need to turbocharge my brain and think of research topics ASAP.

I’m starting to find the commute to one of my jobs is really a drag, especially in winter, and I don’t get as much out of being in that office now that I have my other job… I think I’m going to make it a policy that I wfh one day every other week. If I’m going to be studying again, even very very part time, I definitely need to cut down on all that BS.

Hey, hope you’re not in danger or anything. Is everything alright? Hope today has been okay for you …

That’s definitely up there on the Clutter Image Rating Scale though at least there’s a clear passage lol.

10/10 would subscribe to the chest-cat dream channel. Unless it comes bundled with the nasty non payment dreams, in which case that’s a hard no.

Aw thanks you guys, I thought it was pretty disjointed word salad but I admittedly got caught up in a poetic mood halfway through. I do get very vivid dreams from time to time and they are so symbolic and emotionally affecting that writing them out tends to have interesting results

Yes! Actually even though it was a really vivid dream with a bad ending, it’s helped my subconscious process some emotions (writing it all out helped a lot, too). It’s been a great day, actually, feeling like I’m shedding the post holiday blurgh and maybe coming to terms with the weather on a physical level. Next two days are more challenging, let’s see how I go

Ha, I love the pee ones that aren’t about anything other than needing to pee - way to break the fourth wall, body!

I do think dreams have some meaning insofar as it’s our subconscious unpacking stuff, they dont predict the future but they give some hints as to how we might act or behave about certain things. When I’ve responded in an unexpected way or intensity to something and I’m trying to understand where that came from, dreams have been a great clue. Even the ones I dont remember, aside from when I have a dream later and all I can remember is “I’ve had this dream before”.