Oh hey, it's been a minute.
Things continue to be somewhat unpleasant: no glasses (supposedly they come in today), a trip up north last week which was better than some but not great, work frustrates and I am finding it difficult to care, lack of focus continues to be a problem, etc etc. I hadn't realised it had been more than two weeks since I'd posted but I guess I'm not surprised.
I was making a second cup of tea in the kitchen just now and Mr Tuppert wandered in to see what was going on, and rubbed up against my leg. So I absentmindedly scooped him up because that's what one does with cats who come and ask for attention, or at least what I did with Chaos and Kai for fifteen years. I'm not sure which of us was more surprised. He took it in stride, though, and may have even enjoyed it. (It's hard to tell: his default response to weird things happening to him is to go limp.) I let him down when he started to get restless after a minute, and he did not try to bite me and even still wanted a couple of scritches. Chalk that up to things I did not expect from this cat.
This weekend there's Terminal City Tabletop Convention, a local boardgame con that I've been to every year it's been held in person (the last one was in 2019). I've volunteered to run an Intro To 18xx session and also a round of Sidereal Confluence on Saturday. I'm mildly concerned that this is an overcommitment for my current energy level. I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to give up after the SidCon game and go home and sleep / recuperate if need be. I am somewhat more optimistic about the Gathering next month, mostly because it's a full week (and then some) and I will be On Vacation and not have to think about work for that time.
I spent all day yesterday Very Tired, and I'm not wholly functional today either. Unclear what's going on, whether it's anything more than the accumulated weight of various stressors. I don't like this; there's not much to be done about it immediately, and I'm doing things to make it better eventually. Bah.
I still hate jobhunting.
Things continue to be somewhat unpleasant: no glasses (supposedly they come in today), a trip up north last week which was better than some but not great, work frustrates and I am finding it difficult to care, lack of focus continues to be a problem, etc etc. I hadn't realised it had been more than two weeks since I'd posted but I guess I'm not surprised.
I was making a second cup of tea in the kitchen just now and Mr Tuppert wandered in to see what was going on, and rubbed up against my leg. So I absentmindedly scooped him up because that's what one does with cats who come and ask for attention, or at least what I did with Chaos and Kai for fifteen years. I'm not sure which of us was more surprised. He took it in stride, though, and may have even enjoyed it. (It's hard to tell: his default response to weird things happening to him is to go limp.) I let him down when he started to get restless after a minute, and he did not try to bite me and even still wanted a couple of scritches. Chalk that up to things I did not expect from this cat.
This weekend there's Terminal City Tabletop Convention, a local boardgame con that I've been to every year it's been held in person (the last one was in 2019). I've volunteered to run an Intro To 18xx session and also a round of Sidereal Confluence on Saturday. I'm mildly concerned that this is an overcommitment for my current energy level. I guess we'll see. I'm prepared to give up after the SidCon game and go home and sleep / recuperate if need be. I am somewhat more optimistic about the Gathering next month, mostly because it's a full week (and then some) and I will be On Vacation and not have to think about work for that time.
I spent all day yesterday Very Tired, and I'm not wholly functional today either. Unclear what's going on, whether it's anything more than the accumulated weight of various stressors. I don't like this; there's not much to be done about it immediately, and I'm doing things to make it better eventually. Bah.
I still hate jobhunting.