Fantastic news!!! 👃🌻😊
And hopefully in the next week or so, you should make a full recovery ☺️
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Wait - the guy who writes books is good at writing assignments? Who could have predicted this plot twist?
I'm actually terrible at writing assignments (I'm about a 70-75 average student), but this was a video assignment so even worse.
I am very much happy with the passes gets degrees theory, but worry I am not actually good, just competent enough to do whats needed for that particular subject without retaining it long term.
I get what you’re saying, was just thinking 76 odd is still Distinction area.
I wonder many people actually use the information from their degree vs what they on the job.
I'm looking to eventually get a job as a TA so I can get on the job training while I finish my degree because I feel like if I went into a teaching job now, I'd be crap at it.
Rejected for a job because I was basically too good (?), but they've invited me to apply for a more senior role coming up next month. Not really sure what to do with this information.
at which point they'll tell you that you don't have enough experience for the senior role. Why? Cause they're fuckers.
Least thats my experience.
The more senior role is very similar to my last job, but yep, every chance there'll be another amazing candidate so I'm certainly not holding my breath.
It's great they offered to put you forward for another position. I've had that excuse and no one knows what to do, like 'so you don't want to employ competent people?'
I'll grab this 🤧🥖 sneezed on baguette in a go bag 👜 just in case I need a sick day myself soon.
Hope you feel better soon. Here’s some brandy which will help if it’s an upset tum (or so my mum used to say). It will at least distract you for a bit if nothing else 🥃💐
I just saw you have a cold - brandy will definitely help with that
Oh noe! Chef, here is some herbal tea, soup and pills to help you feel better. 💊💊💊💉🍸🍵
On the train last night some guy kept sneezing next to me without covering his mouth and now I'm sick.
I went to the office and let my manager know and she said to go home. Which was really nice.
Teams meetings all day tomorrow anyway, just didn't want to be away from work. The difference between sectors is dramatic.
I got up and walked away from someone on the ferry who kept coughing wetly. I can only hope she was recovering from something, but I was not taking the risk.
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I'm still piiiiiiiiised about when my expensive trip to Mildura was ruined by some lady who was coughing all weekend. I think I ended up with a combination of food poisoning and the cold while stranded hundreds of KMs from home in almost the middle of nowhere.
::: spoiler sick Throwing up into a rubbish bag on a bus is not good. Fucking horrendous experience. :::
I still see far too much of this in public, and it makes me mad, especially as someone who hasn't been able to work for the past week from covid. Some people either learnt nothing from the last few years or simply don't give a damn and it shows.
Fkn ferals! Crawling all over the trains and trams, coughing and snuffling, wiping their faces with their hands and smearing it everywhere like angry monkeys throwing their shit.
Why don't the Geneva Conventions on Biological Warfare extend to the common disease-ridden citizen?
Don't even get me started on buses.
Hullo from Auckland!! Spent the day trying surprisingly mediocre wine with a group of fun people from right across the globe! I am surprisingly exhausted!
Today is dragging like crazy.
How is it not even 11 am? (Posting this at 10:50)
Office is less busy than usual toi
I've had 2 meetings that have dragged like you wouldnt believe which really isnt helping! "Ok if there isnt any more questions.....?" "Oh, I've got one!" Bro how about you sit down and shut the f up. You dont need 15 of us in this meeting to ask this question.
We also have someone who does that in meetings, often when they’re wrapping up. It’s all I can do not to scream STOP. TALKING. NOW!!
yeah Im glad I was on mute cause I groaned out loud. they just dialed me in to have a chat whilst they were working on something and I had to go "Guys, I delivered this yes, But its now with another team. if the other team hasnt read the documentation go to their manager. I aint doing their work for them!"
A walk in the sun over the lunch break was amazing for the mood. Though I admit its quickly slipping away haha
Yup, woke up super early and now I'm drained af. Might take a nap and then do my writing for my prac assessments.
I care so little for US politics and I am already tired of hearing about that train wreck, despite actively avoiding it. I can't escape it I figured it must be close to the election so I googled it.
We got another 3 months of this.
I was absolutely here prior to "the change" and now I'm all here for it. It went from "good guys gonna get smashed" to "Holy shit good guys are gonna win and bad guys gonna get their asses kicked". Love a come from behind story.
I loved the Olympics even more because of this. 2 weeks of barely hearing about it was bliss.
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I wish Americans would stop this whole superiority complex thing they have, and acting like everybody needs to know about it
Chief. Your country is falling apart, basically a 3rd world country with rich white people, and you literally had Trump as president. Nobody else gives a fuck about who wins your shitty little race race. Your country is beyond repair either way. Also, US politics aren't the default politics, and the US isn't the default country 🤷♂️
Miniest testing negative for covid 💪🏼 my test still very faintly positive. Mr P's test still strongly positive and he is spewin' about it. The first to get it and spread it to us is still positive, he really thought he'd be in the clear by now. But he's the oldest and a smoker, which I think must be a factor in his slow recovery? Ran out of tests so will have to test Elder when the ones I ordered arrive this arvo.
Edit: Elder minipeeler has tested negative! I'm sooo relieved!
There was some silly article years ago about how being a smoker (tobacco or weed) could help against covid.
I called bullshit and I'm pretty sure it's been disproven too lol. Guarantee you his smoking is prolly why it's harder for him to get over it (as a flip-flopping quitter)
Given Mr Peeler kept walking through the living room for a ciggie, in this case it sounds like it wasn't the smoker who got sicker — it was everyone else!
Anyways, fantastic news that you're all starting to recover 😊
antigratitude: i have a cold
gratitude: telehealth is freeeeee and i get a med cert so i get paid for being sick
s2g if they wanted to fix the state deficit, put fucking ticket cops on chesterville road. The number of defects and speeding fines would buy us a whole new rail system.
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I did a 5 year stint in st Albans, and it was always funny seeing how many people would run the red light, or speed, along Taylor's Rd, particularly at the Arthur Street intersection. Never really saw cops around much either. I liked to tell people who'd never been to st Albans before that it was because the last time cops tried to park up and fine people, the kids in the area through rocks at their windows, and then we all teamed up and tipped their cop car over. I think the more depressing reality is that there were probably only 5 cops at Keilor Downs police station, and most of them were preoccupied with domestic violence calls, and the resulting paperwork. Ironically Taylor's Rd is the nicer end of town, too
I've caught the today-is-dragging-itis bug. Far out I'm soooo done for the day. Bleurgh. I have to do a stupid employee goals thing too. urrrghghvbggvbfgj
Also really sleepy as I was up late helping a mate with their job application. It was actually my dream job, but I'm not in a position to have such a big change right now... and I think this person is a better candidate anyway. Certainly makes me think of where I could be in the future though
Oh man, employee goals crap is the worst. I used to take them seriously, but after a decade at my current employer they've proven that they're not worth a damn. NOBODY here takes them seriously any more, even my manager acknowledges it's all worthless and any goals or aspirations or training plans or targets will be ignored by the powers that be anyway. It's just a box ticking exercise here.
Also, what a great friend you are to have that kind of attitude and put that effort in helping someone get YOUR dream job! I just hope you don't sell yourself short, make sure you shoot for something similar when the timing IS right!
Now I believe it's time to will this clock into turning faster so that I can go home...
Lol, turns out even my supervisor has no idea there were these employee goal things so it really is a total box ticking exercise...
Aw thanks, that's really nice of you re: job. It's just been bad timing that this job was advertised when it was. I absolutely can't sacrifice my last shot at finishing this degree (would need to start redoing subjects otherwise) and I know I simply can't handle the chaos of transitioning jobs moving forward. I like that my existing jobs are somewhat braindead which leaves me more space to work with uni, life, etc. Whereas I'd be burning the candle at both ends wanting to put in 110% at the job while also finishing uni. I also needed some down time professionally after my last job.
I'll definitely be putting in for jobs like that once I wrap up uni mid next year!
At the reception for my CT and there is no one here lol.
Least I went private so I got an appt real quick, but it's like a ghost town in here 😱
Edit: nevermind, all done. I got lost but still got the scan 10mins before my actual appt time #winning
I was bangin 7 gram rocks, that's how I roll - winning
I have one gear: GO - epic winning
Are you bipolar?
I'm bi-winning
Win here, win there, win win everywhere
Shout out to my goodest girl: the Staffy X Kelpie. I'm trying a new walking technique to reduce the pulling cause its all gotten a bit shit since kiddo joined us. She was always the better of the 2 dogs but with the new technique she had it dialed in within like 5 minutes. She was a nightmare on a lead when we got her so to see the progress she has made was just been awesome.
The other dog we wont be talking about here.
I don’t know much about dogs. But I saw a harness where the leash attached at the front of the dog’s chest. Maybe that was to turn them back around or to the side each time they raced ahead of the owner/pulled. Kind of as discouragement or to make it harder to act up.
Is that a thing?
Edit: Seems it is.
It’s called a front clip harness
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-harnesses-for-dogs-that-pull/#
I dropped my phone in a public toilet this morning. I won’t share the gory details. I just thought you fine people should know.
This is the right time to catch covid. Allows the smell to dissipate without you having to experience it.
New neighbours - of the kind our Baku knows all too well. Or possibly the site has been re-classified as flood-prone or similar.
nah, we're still between an empty lot of trash and the sharehouse fulla smackheads. Definitely no reclassification of zones.
maybe the smackheads were being extra smackey when they did the survey, there's one that's started wandering naked out into their front yard
I struggled to get home this afternoon. I kept wanting to fall asleep as I was driving home.
Made it home through had a wash then flopped on my bed and fell asleep until now.
I think my blanket last night was too warm for me so I’m going to change it out for a few days as it’s been warmer.
Anyway making some garlic bread now.
Hungry!
It so is, I've been putting a load out when my MIL isn't in the backroom of her place (which is where the back door is). Unfortunately she usually sits there so it limits me to before she gets up or when she has her afternoon nap.
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I have a sore throat and a headache. Fun times. Plus side I guess is that I don't have anything on till this Arvo, so I can do a sleep in. But I got absorbed into a the YouTube "documentary" about YouTube drama. Oddly fascinating. Like watching a train wreck