#jim's journal

[headdaze]

being witness to the wind breaker ao3 page slowly grow from barely 13 pages to almost 30 now brings me a certain kind of happiness 🥹

[lone-sk]

Today I decided to revisit Jim's Journal, and I was immediately hit with this absolute banger

[potentiallyjim]

I'm really struggling right now, and since posting here is like shouting into the void, I figure the void can take all my worries.

I recently got moved to a new team at work. Without warning. It's not fun to be reminded I'm little more than a replacable cog, but whatever. The projects I'd been working on moved with me. Also fine. But more work has been added to my plate. A lot of work my previous boss and two others had been doing part-time got added to my load.

It's not that I can't do this work. It's all data science like I'm used to, but I'm now the "owner" on all this. The main point of contact, which has always been my former boss' role.

Logically, they wouldn't toss me in without a net and I know I can rely on the folks who formerly worked on this stuff to help look over my work if needed, but I still feel like I'm being tossed in the deep end.

I'm a people-pleaser. Another team is wanting more of this data science work and after working through the details, I gave them a rough timeline of 2 months. This wasn't even a generous timeline for the amount of work they were asking for. They shot back that they were expecting on the order of 2 weeks. Again, logocal me knows that's a wildly unreasonable request, but the inner people-pleaser tells me "well, if I just push myself more..."

On the bright side, talking with the folks who were doing this work previously, they balked at the two-week expectation. And my new boss is telling me not to make *any* commitments or expectations since I'm still in the "learning" phase of this project.

I woke up this morning at 5am and had a minor panic attack thinking about work. I can't live like this.

I guess being in demand means I can pick and choose what I get to work on. I get to determine what I get to work on. ... Yeah. I'm in demand amd my time is a limited supply. I get to control this economy! This is oddly empowering!

[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for the African Saga team-up between The Punisher and Wolverine in The Punisher War Journal featuring art by Jim Lee (1989)

[lilbeanz]

JIM 🗣📣‼️

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #864

In the 1980 presidential election, people cast write-in votes for both Miss Piggy and Kermit.

Source:

"Cizanckas Fund ... The Write-in Votes." Matthew L. Wald. Connecticut Journal. December 7, 1980. Section C, page 3.

[garadinervi]

Tokyo Poetry Journal (ToPoJo) Vol. 15: Visual///Visionary Poetry, 2024

Essays: Scott Mehl, Jordan A. Y. Smith, and Jim Andrews Cover Art: Solène Ballesta and Lin Syoki Design: Victoria Bennett Lead editor: Zoria Petkoska K.

(via @blnxpc)

[s0larize]

[multifandomrandomgirl]

On this day in 1969 and 1971 we lost Brian Jones and Jim Morrison respectively. Rest in peace angels.

Junk journal pieces I did today for them

[jillianwygand]

some journaling I have done lately to keep the creativity flowing

[headdaze]

ok follow-up post to the one screaming about how I learned to cope with character death fear yada yada yada

[for context the character I just got attached too in the webtoon is called thaddeus][he is indeed very attractive]

when I went to type in the tags I typed in the webtoon name--Killer Peter--just to see if the tag would pop up automatically (I wasn't sure since it's a fairly??? new webtoon???? just a little over a year old 🥹) the tag popped up but 2 out of the 3 other tags that also automatically pop up besides, obviously, the words I literally typed in--which as I have found out are the ones that are most often associated with the words I've put in--are:

#killer peter thaddeus ... and.... #thaddeus x reader

I literally went "oh." out loud then started laughing so hard and continued with "DANGGGGG YALL ARE THIIIIRRRRSSSTYYYYYYY!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" 🤣🤣🤣

not faulting you (I am one of you, in fact) but I was just surprised because like I said in my previous post, as a webtoon reader, I sometimes forget it's not just "me" reading the series and feeling things for it, there are other readers who carry the same passion as I do 🥰 that's why I love this place and other places where fans can congregate, like reddit 🥹 it's nice to be reminded that I'm not alone as a fan, even though it feels like it sometimes 🥹💞

tldr; y'all thirsty, good for you, I may have gotten surprised and gotten a good laugh out of it but honestly me too ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[bclaymoore]

Jim Aparo ADVENTURE COMICS covers featuring the Spectre.

For a brief time in the mid-70s, Aparo worked with writer Michael Fleisher on a series of ultra-violent Spectre stories that sparked some controversy, and ultimately helped lead to a multi-millionaire lawsuit by Fleisher against author Harlan Ellison and Gary Groth's THE COMICS JOURNAL.

[coffeecatsandhealth]

1/5/25

I took my first shot of semaglutide today. I ordered it from online after talking to a doctor online. I'm going to talk to another doctor in person to see if I am covered under my insurance. I know this is a little backwards but after having to wait for the appointment with the in person doctor, I got antsy and went online because I didn't want to wait any longer. One of my friends is on semaglutide and I read the side effects and they seem unlikely for me given my medical history and current status, etc. I know I kinda jumped the gun a bit. I've just been so excited to start it. I also am surprised that taking the shot doesn't hurt at all. I was really worried about it at first. I watched the instructional video ahead of time and it was very helpful otherwise I would have felt lost, but it seems almost too straightforward and easy. I can't believe I only need to do one shot a week. Well, Sundays are my day and I'm marking it on my calendar.

Speaking of other things I've marked, I'm sharing my fitness progress from the last few weeks. A few weeks I didn't make my goal of 150 minutes or more of activity a week, but it was mostly holiday weeks.

I also made some charts for future activity tracking today and my weight.

We took it easy today which is nice because we were on the road to Peoria yesterday and waited in line way too long to see the Muppets exhibit. Yesterday was exhausting just getting to see it because the lines were so long. This was the last weekend. I'm never seeing anything on the last weekend ever again and we drove there a little over 2 hours to get there and drove back the same freaking day. It was nuts.

I've been playing a video game and watching movies and TV shows with my fiance all day to make up for the craziness that was yesterday. Currently, I'm playing Bravely Default II. It's been snowing all day and we can't go anywhere anyway so we treated today as a snow day.

[remembertheplunge]

Ugly Betty says NO to Prop 8 (2008)

October 31, 2008

Jim bought a life size Obama (card board cut out)—it stands by our front door.

Neighbors in the last duplex across the street put up two “No on 8” signs and an Obama sign yesterday. 

The “Yes on 8” duplex across the street pointed their sign toward our house. Actually, they have two.   And they put up a McPalin sign after we put up the life sized Obama.

Ugly Betty, her Dad and sister did a “No on 8” ad last night during Ugly Betty, aimed at Latinos. 

It ran later, too.

Diane Feinstein also has a powerful ad “it will change the constitution. It (Prop. 8) equals discrimination.”

The Yes on 8s stole Troy’s  porch light.  They put in their porch light. 

End of entry

Notes: 1/4/2025

You can see that Project 25 was already brewing with the advent of Proposition 8 and its ban on gay marriage which passed in 2008. 2008 is not that long ago. Even though Proposition 8 was later overturned and the right for gays to marry has been made a part of the California Constitution as of November 5, 2024 passage of Proposition 3, there are lots of people out there like our across the street "Yes on 8" neighbor mentioned in the above 2008 entry. They want to force us back into the dark pre Stone Wall days. In other words , they want us silenced, back in the closet and locked in forever. We have to "point our signs" back at them and say, no, we are out, proud and we are not going back. Once you see, you cannot unsee!

[aquarda]

“Tell them you came and saw and looked into my eyes and watched the shadows of the guard receding.”

[bee-barnes-author]

Got my first agent rejection today. Really trying to not let it ruin my confidence in this book.