Melbourne

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Bryce Canyon, Utah

a small piece of belated black forest b'day cake has been nommed

Last week was book week and I was invited to do some writing/book talks at three primary schools nearby and it went so awesomely well. I was nervous - as always, and really wasn't in the mood for it - but the kids were so engaging and fun to talk too. They asked a lot of questions and really just made the whole thing worthwhile. I tried getting them involved by asking them questions about writing and they showed me some stories they were working on too.

I donated my books to their school library and apparently they're all keen to borrow them. I also had the books sell out at the local store nearest them and I restocked them and it's almost sold out again. It's only 6 or 7 copies but it's taken months to even sell that many at times so it was really cool and a surprise.

'Oh my God': live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery

"...the patient needed to be treated for other larvae that might have invaded other parts of her body, such as the liver."

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My kid's been using a butter knife to cut cheese. I give up.

I honestly believe we're heading into the next 'millenium drought'.

I fondly remember showering with a bucket to keep shit in the garden alive when we were stage 4.

I am VERY CRANKY at work this morning. Rough night sleep, lots of weird dreams, and just pushing myself a little hard for a few days. I need chocolate, a hug and to be left the fuck alone.

I’m just going to leave a barrel of ivermectin and some needles here. Help yourself.

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My psychologist is cutting her hours down dramatically as she's moving more into a teaching space. She said she's keeping only a handful of clients on board and hoped I would be one of those clients.

And here's me all like... yay?

Yesterday was not a great day. Determined to make today better.

It's been a month since my boss put me under "observation" to determine whether I'd get the (from $30 to $33 an hour) raise I requested. They tried to claim they don't take inflation into account, and dismissed every piece of evidence, making claims that because a coworker of mine uses their phone on the job I might be, and that's reason why I shouldn't get a raise.

Also, they claimed that they should be lowering my pay.

How on Earth do I handle this? I'm a Uni student and don't have time to go on a job search, not to mention for equivalent pay. I just want to be able to earn enough to pay rent and food comfortably, not struggle every damn week to make ends meet

Passed a mini-truck with advertising boards on it today. Had an image of a line graph going upwards with big title saying something like ‘why are there excess deaths’ and a big QR code. No identifying info on who the advertiser is. Was driving so couldn’t take a photo. Is this still anti-vaxer propaganda or something else?

Temu ad recommended me a butt plug. The fun begins!

This employment training shit sounds like a really boring podcast, I'm falling asleep. 🥔💤

fattening up the ginger beastie and got recommended Farmers Market alongside his usual renal. Our local IGA sells, so nabbed some and it definitely passes muster but oh my god. Punkin is now the bougiest motherfucker south of richmond. Chicken pieces in a reduced fish broth. Chicken mousse with shredded tuna centre, pumpkin and broccoli. Tuna (or chicken) loaf with quail egg, carrot and peas (and I've never seen a cat eat an egg before yesterday but fuck me he enjoyed it). Gets a spoonful every so often doled out through the day and his eyes literally light up when the tin comes out. Bougie, bougie motherfucker.

ugh today what happened to your weather

I am slightly confused. Semi-empty tram. Pplz choosing to not only to stand right next to me, but I don’t think I’ve ever been more surprised to have someone facing me. Like in my personal space, facing me..

What strange hell is this?

oh deary me, I had a dream that someone would keep extending my sleeping time and I could sleep in without getting trouble.

Woke up pretty quickly from that dream.

Also pretty frustrated at my doona moving slowly to one side of my doona cover leaving me cold at night, I'm sure that's not helping me sleep.

Is there no sun today :(

Came into the office only so I could avoid construction noise where I'm staying. Thank goodness boss and business manager/admin/"HR" aren't around so I don't need to hold my breath around them and am successfully getting shit done without an iceberg of frostiness and tension looming over me.

As expected, instantly feeling much better back on the previous meds, thank heck. Also no signs of parasites in my poop. Very good.

Omg I love my new council so much. They're building a new house near my new house and all of the construction equipment completely fucked the footpath. It's bad enough I tripped on it once and someone in a wheelchair would probably be better off either on the grass or the road. So I did a snapsendsolve thingo not expecting much and then this morning I received a voicemail from a council dude. Apparently they had a meeting with the site manager and the site construction people will fix it this week and the council will do follow up inspections to make sure they actually do.

At my last house in a shit council area, someone graffitied some vile shit on both sides of the footpath in front of our house (do there was graffiti in front of both our neighbours houses, but not ours) and I did SSS it, but that was in March and my ticket is still open and they still haven't done anything about it. I used their very shitty web form for reporting offensive graffiti and they did fix it within a week, BUT they only cleaned one panel... it was between 3 panels on both sides, so 6 panels total

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Edit: i hate one of my fellow participants; why are conservative anti-vaxxers so vocal. This is employment training, asshole, not "listen to my cold, stale af takes"

Lmao my mother asked me for tv show recommendations, and I just watched all the other family members collectively sigh and scream no.

It's my quarterly sit around getting poked and prodded for an afternoon day, and I really can't be bothered with it. I mean, dying doing a menial task in your late 20s wouldn't be so bad, right?

Does anyone suffer eczema? Any advice? I've tried a few creams - prescribed and off the shelf and I am going back to the doctors, but I need something in the mean time because it is driving me bananas.