#Work blog

[antiquery]

beginning to think the right wingers have a point about keeping drag away from kids— not because it's too sexual (it's generally not) or because kids shouldn't know that people can be trans (they aggressively should), but because eighth graders armed with drag slang are nuclear levels of annoying

[yudoyu]

rainy saturday mornings at work

[workblr-lady]

12/4/23

to do @ work: work admin (28 emails, accounting), edit five posts, three meetings, po assignments

to do @ ooo: exercise, my meds, read, address holiday cards, see boy and the heron, shower, shred a rotisserie chicken

feeling: i was sleepy this morning, but we are getting everything done. i also got this frog mothman plushee from a friend. i love him.

[megdocx]

Had the amazing opportunity to listen to Mitski’s latest album, “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We” at Rough Trade NYC earlier this week.

If you haven’t listened yet - Mitski’s latest album has all the aspects I treasure from her work plus new essences of instrument experimentation. You can sense that a lot of appreciation for art and curation went into the production of this album.

[what-if-i-was-good]

oh wow

hi i am a mouse and also they gave me a job and im not super good at it um so this is where i go to scream and cry because i scare my coworkers if i do it in the hallway and they dont want me to hide under my desk any more

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[cafeyote]

me and gang at the haunted house

[3liza]

last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the choices she and my father had made about raising me and my brother and she agreed that just listening to the child and taking them seriously was the One Weird Trick to cutting out like 60% of conflicts between parents and children. and she said one time I was about three or four years old and we were all going to the grocery store, and at the threshold of the store I just had a meltdown. i was overwhelmed, I was crying, I was just at the end of my rope like kids get sometimes. and instead of dragging me through the store my mom and dad stopped what we were doing and just asked me what the problem was. and I was able to say I didn't want to be there, I couldn't do it, I wanted to go home. and she says she and my father just looked at each other and back at me and said "okay" and we all went home that day instead of forcing the grocery store trip. and I had so few public meltdowns as a kid despite being pretty autistic because, I think, I knew that if I ever really needed to leave, my parents would understand and back me up. and that was the case throughout my childhood. which paradoxically (one might think) resulted in me having fewer incidents of being overwhelmed in the first place, which then made me better able to handle increasing amounts of stress and so on. it also taught me that expressing feelings and communicating them to my caretakers wasn't going to be punished or ignored or called weird, so unlike many other autistic kids who get judged or rebuked for expressing sensitivity or opposition, I didn't need to constantly blockade everyone and internalize everything all the time.

it's a pretty simple concept whether your kids are autistic or not, but most parents don't seem to get it. their parents taught them to just force everything and let the child deal with it alone so they just repeat the cycle even though they know how it feels.

[prokopetz]

I fully understand why "character A is astounded at the sight of character B's penis" is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as "penis awe" is unintentionally very funny. Now I'm picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.

[antiquery]

promised one of my girls that if she was well behaved and studied hard this semester I'd let her bring in hot tools and do my hair on a day when we didn't have anything else to do. immediately someone else volunteered to do my makeup. I have now committed to letting half a dozen eighth graders style me by committee

[twisted-tales-told]

“This must be Jesus Christ superstar” —old woman about good old fashion lover boy by Queen

[workblr-lady]

12/20/23

work: emails, accounting, two meetings, edit 6 articles

ooo: finish christmas groceries, finish art for husbands zine, exercise, my meds, dinner with cc

[megdocx]

100 Days of Productivity | 29/100

Aug. 22 | Learned about the 3-3-3 Method today, where you spend 3 hours focused on one main project or larger task, then prioritize 3 “urgent” sub-tasks (meetings, re-filing), and then aim to complete 3 “maintenance” tasks (going for a workout class, sending emails). I’m looking forward to learning if that works for me!

[ennysue]

Today at work we get to “wear jeans” as a reward for scamming people into getting our stores credit card (a credit card whose bank has been hacked like four times)

So im wearing a dress in defiance because that’s about the laziest employee incentive since pizza parties.

[benjaminfreedmanmusic]

work blog 4/5/24: popcorn machine