magsdoeslife

[magsdoeslife]

Can we include darebee.com with ao3 and wikipedia on our list of really good nonprofits with excellent services that we stan?

It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.

Features I really like:

- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout

- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose

- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do

- you don't need any equipment

- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet

- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout

- I've only scratched the surface

I'm doing this really easy one to start out

[magsdoeslife]

one thing abt me is I have an extremely low tolerance for men who don’t respect competent women. I will in fact push back because my number one pet peeve is being patronized.

also. same guy said something clearly rooted in racial stereotypes and I immediately made a disgusted face 1) because what the actual fuck and 2) I can’t hide my reactions very well. he said “hey mags don’t make that face. don’t make that face you know it’s true” and I felt such vile contempt that I looked this 6’5” man in the eye and said “no it’s not.” which is the BARE MINIMUM I could’ve done and I should’ve called it out even more explicitly and I most certainly will if he does it again (he will)

it’s rare these days that I find myself in male dominated spaces because I don’t make a habit of it. I forgot about the casual sexism that happens

[magsdoeslife]

ok the bigger problem is my boss ALSO does it which. is an issue. but also. you try living in a new country where you only know your coworkers and some of them are dicks and we all know it.

unfortunately my biggest red flag in the workplace is that I will complain abt coworkers to other coworkers after I already confirmed they feel similarly which I knowwww is bad and I’m very very careful to not say anything to critique appearances or unchangeable things. it’s mostly like. attitude and people being condescending towards me. I try so hard not to give into it but god is it challenging. esp when I find people who have been here longer and think the same thing

[magsdoeslife]

and another thing. ending therapy is bonkers. wdym I’ve talked to the same person for and hour almost every week for four and a half years and I’m just expected to never talk to or think about them again outside of the construct of our relationship that exists solely in my mind and the version I’ve created of them that exists to soothe me by providing a counterbalance to my distress response? after they changed my life?

[magsdoeslife]

one of the only classes I ever really struggled with was 10th grade algebra.

my teacher honestly wasn’t great, for one, but I hated not knowing what was going on so much that I worked my butt off at the end of the year and against my will went to extra classes and help sessions

and when it came time for the state standardized test that didn’t matter, my accommodations weren’t being honored so I advocated for myself, got them honored, and spent all day on that test. and when I walked into class when we got the scores, my teacher pulled me out into the hallway, and said she was proud of me for sticking up for myself.

and I got a perfect score.

someone who had consistently gotten Bs and Cs on the tests and quizzes.

and I still think about that.

[magsdoeslife]

unfortunately my biggest red flag in the workplace is that I will complain abt coworkers to other coworkers after I already confirmed they feel similarly which I knowwww is bad and I’m very very careful to not say anything to critique appearances or unchangeable things. it’s mostly like. attitude and people being condescending towards me. I try so hard not to give into it but god is it challenging. esp when I find people who have been here longer and think the same thing

[magsdoeslife]

he thing about being a career oriented adult is one day you look up and realize you don’t have friends who consider you a significant part of their lives the same way you do them and then ducking your head back into work because it’s easier than having to face the impending loneliness of only texting the one long distance friend you have, calling your mom, and your only in person conversations being with your coworkers

[magsdoeslife]

girl help! the anxiety!! it’s behind me!!!

[magsdoeslife]

The existence of a Western Mass implies the existence of a Southwestern Mass, a North by West Mass, an East Northeastern Mass, a Northwest by Northern Mass, a West East Mass…

[magsdoeslife]

at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

[magsdoeslife]

everyone be sooooo proud of me I actually followed up on a networking connection and conversation I made three months ago

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being a young adult in a corporate workplace is so weird. wdym a grown ass 45 year old is beefing with me because I have a working knowledge of how to filter spreadsheets

[magsdoeslife]

this is your sign that’s it’s ok to set boundaries at work. take your full lunch break. don’t check your email or messages on the weekends.

especially my early-career and hourly friends. unless they’re paying you overtime to work outside of your regular hours, you don’t need to. even if your coworkers have piss-poor boundaries and choose to work holidays and weekends. you can be flexible and still support your team without compromising your work life balance. so long as the work gets done, it will be ok.

[magsdoeslife]

thinking about me a year ago connecting with tons of people on LinkedIn because I thought they had cool jobs and now having tons of people try to connect with me because I have a cool job

[magsdoeslife]

the thing i love about dunkin donuts is every single time u get a different drink even if you order the exact same thing

[magsdoeslife]

I made my last post and not 20 minutes later a student from my college reached out to me to set up a time to chat and learn about my journey. life has a funny way of doing that