Yuki

📚️ I finally finished Wind and Truth; Brandon Sanderson is an exercise in stamina for sure. I'll have to put my thoughts in a proper reading post sometime soon. Other than that, haven't been reading a lot.

🇫🇷️ Except for all the les mis fic that I have been reading. Here's a fantastic Eposette longfic by a writer I had not known of before! Every so often I just kinda go on a valvert binge hoping to find something new and this time I did! At some point I really have to start collecting recs.

🤢️ I'm doing a course for work that starts Monday and I'm not looking forward to it. Three guesses what horrible tech it covers.

💻️ Work is. I was sick recently during a time when I could not afford to be (we're very siloed at work) and I felt like I had to work through the illness, which is never fun. My boss made a big deal of possibly promotion but now he seems to have waned in his zeal for it. I'm not angry because a) I don't think I am working at that level and b) I think it would mean a lot more work which I'm not keen on right now, I'm still trying to pare down my responsibilities and claw back some work-life balance, I'm just annoyed that he's so flip-floppy. I kind of can't stand 2 out of my 3 coworkers and the 3rd one is just kind of cardboard so hardly enough there to dislike. I feel desperately, horribly lonely.

👯‍♀️️ Didn't plan it this way but celebrating international women's day with Amaranthe / Epica concert tomorrow :'D I'd really like the Monday off but Germany doesn't do days in lieu, when your holiday falls on a weekend that's just shit luck.

🐺️ Finished volunteering with the org, and what a shame I left right before that weird down-up-down-up-down time. I wasn't a systems vol, but man to be a fly on the wall for that. At some point I wanted to write my thoughts about the past 7ish years, but I don't know if anybody would care, and I suppose there's only so many times I can say "this was at worst pretty shitty and at best kinda meh".

✒️ But there is one bright spot, and that's that I'm starting to feel like writing again. Sort of. It's still so hard to pull the energy for it, and sometimes I can push past it and other times I can't, so it's not really consistent yet. But having regular sprinting with a friend has helped a lot.