I realized recently that alot of my intrusive and impulsive thoughts at work are just... cat behaviours. So I made a thing about it. I also did the inking with my non-dominant hand for the practice.
i love my job but can't figure out if i just love it this much because i feel productive and cared for and valuable there and i don't really feel those things outside of work. but like regardless i do love my job. just wish i enjoyed my actual real life also.
December 7, 2023 - Hundreds of UK union workers blockaded companies who sell weapons or parts for fighter jets that Israel uses for its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. Four factories were blockaded in Bournemouth, Lancashire, Brighton and Glasgow.
Palestinian unions have asked for union workers across the world to use their power to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Dock workers have recenty heeded this call for solidarity by blocking Israeli weapons shipments in several countries, inculding South Africa, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, and Italy. [video]
Me on Thursday: yippee new job! I'm going to do so well there!
Me, now: *on the verge of a meltdown at all times, environment too hot, no chance to listen to music (bought some tiny invisible airpods to sneak around this) realizing I've been tricked into working a factory job by my job coach when I told them I don't want to work a factory job*
to this day i think one of the best writing decisions the magnus archives made was making it explicitly clear that your bloodline made little to no difference to whether you would develop any kind of connection to the entities and their powers. even so-called "avatar families" either had to produce multiple heirs in the hope that at least one would be inclined to continue their work (like the lukases) or end up with imperfect messiahs despite all their efforts (like the cult of the lightless flame), and in most cases being born into that life only made you more at risk of ultimately rejecting and/or being consumed by it. there was no direct runs-in-the-family line of succession ending in the perfect chosen one. even generations' worth of preparation and legacy-building could be brought to an end by a single act of defiance or doubt. it's the perfect theme for a podcast all about choices and their consequences.
Why is it that I have had to work consistently for literal years to earn the same level of respect from the men in my workplace that a man receives in two weeks. Why is it when I meet new people (men) in my workplace I have to prove that I’m not a vegetable to each and every one of them. Why do I need credentials when Steve or Bob or Tom merely have to grunt at another man to earn basic decency. Why is it that when I explain where a thing has to be, I am not listened to but when a man comes by and says the same, the thing goes where (I said) it should go. Why is it when I make a mistake I am shouldering the weight of my whole gender and certain they are calling me a stupid girl (bitch, cunt) behind closed doors. Why do men have to explain things to me (that I know how to do better) as if I am in fact a jellyfish. Why is it that every day is a battle. While I realize we have come so far, we have so much further to go lemmie tell ya.