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Jan. 14th, 2026 08:20 pmthe flu has absolutely been kicking my ass today. i am so full of cold i can feel it behind my eyeballs.
training was pretty much entirely CBT based today, but it was all DB stuff, so that was easy enough. figured out why i couldn't finish the other CBT - its because i had one answer wrong. so that was mortifying, but at least its checked off now. had a lovely chat with gin, i think we are going to be on the same team maybe? i definitely feel that so far i could have made senior instead of normal, but at least thats a good goal to progress towards over the next six months or so. the interface we use is called hartlink and its very basic looking compared to altair, but it has all these cool metrics at the bottom for how many tasks you're behind on, and how productive you've been etc. i love a metric. yesterdays zoom background was temu hobbit hole, today was the simpsons. i have a whole host of funny ones downloaded from reddit and i look forward to changing them.
struggled through and finished work for the day, made laura lazy girl dinner (nuggets and chips) because i felt too ill to cook and then laid on the sofa. struggled through finishing a crown of midnight. i have to be in the minority here, but i DID NOT LIKE IT. way too many incidences of borderline copyright infringement and lots of poor writing. the next one is the novellas and i didnt like the acotar novellas either. ugh. now i'm trying to finish up empire of pain which is about the opiod crisis in america (wildly different!) and its good but very heavy reading.
i went up to bed around 9pm because i was wiped out and chris had put away the laundry (ohio and all that) and i nearly fell over in shock. lauras stepmum asked her to draw a heart so she could get it tattooed on her. i feel that is very performative, but ok? like whatever. they are trying for baby and i want to tell her to run for the hills because he already has three kids and only sees laura, but its also not my place is it.
also i really want to get paid, not because i want to spend money, but because i want to update my budget spreadsheet. how lame is that!!
currently reading: empire of pain
currently feeling: very ill
training was pretty much entirely CBT based today, but it was all DB stuff, so that was easy enough. figured out why i couldn't finish the other CBT - its because i had one answer wrong. so that was mortifying, but at least its checked off now. had a lovely chat with gin, i think we are going to be on the same team maybe? i definitely feel that so far i could have made senior instead of normal, but at least thats a good goal to progress towards over the next six months or so. the interface we use is called hartlink and its very basic looking compared to altair, but it has all these cool metrics at the bottom for how many tasks you're behind on, and how productive you've been etc. i love a metric. yesterdays zoom background was temu hobbit hole, today was the simpsons. i have a whole host of funny ones downloaded from reddit and i look forward to changing them.
struggled through and finished work for the day, made laura lazy girl dinner (nuggets and chips) because i felt too ill to cook and then laid on the sofa. struggled through finishing a crown of midnight. i have to be in the minority here, but i DID NOT LIKE IT. way too many incidences of borderline copyright infringement and lots of poor writing. the next one is the novellas and i didnt like the acotar novellas either. ugh. now i'm trying to finish up empire of pain which is about the opiod crisis in america (wildly different!) and its good but very heavy reading.
i went up to bed around 9pm because i was wiped out and chris had put away the laundry (ohio and all that) and i nearly fell over in shock. lauras stepmum asked her to draw a heart so she could get it tattooed on her. i feel that is very performative, but ok? like whatever. they are trying for baby and i want to tell her to run for the hills because he already has three kids and only sees laura, but its also not my place is it.
also i really want to get paid, not because i want to spend money, but because i want to update my budget spreadsheet. how lame is that!!
currently reading: empire of pain
currently feeling: very ill
