we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
Lol, can I answer this even though I don’t have a Beehaw account anymore?
It’s ok. But it’s been hot weather, like summer. I want winter and the cold to come already. I have gotten started with a programming course in C#, some tasks are difficult but it’s fun problem-solving. School is ok, my classmates are nice but unfortunately I don’t seem to have much in common with most/any of them.
All in all, things are going alright. I remade all of my Spotify playlists which has been therapeutic. Now I’m just chilling, school is draining sometimes. But life is ok. 👍
Going good! Got a few new games, been feeling a bit blah but am getting over that gradually. Been cutting my social media usage a bit, I deleted my microblogging fediverse account and pretty much just have Lemmy now which still eats up a lot of my time but still a huge improvement since I’m not spending nearly as much time online anymore as I was, it was getting to be a bit too much.
Edit: Also just today, I decided to drop my Japanese studying that I’ve been doing for a few years and fully focus on Castilian Spanish that I’ve been learning on the side instead. Japanese was getting to be way too much of a workload and timesink for me. Hoping this helps get rid of some stress.
I got No Man’s Sky (for some reason seeing Starfield stuff made me want to play that again, haven’t played it since launch on console) and Monster Hunter World again, really just old games I used to have on console and have been really tempted to play again since I found them on good sales
Might be the cooler, damper weather coming in - not that it gets hot here in the summer & we’ve been incredibly fortunate to avoid extreme weather so far this year, but just greatly prefer autumn & winter.
Planning to start exercising later in the week, which will feel good as currently an uncomfortable mix of feeble as jello, gnarled up with stiffness.
Excited to see how Beehaw develops next, in light of discussions initiated by recent admin posts.
Starting off rough, honestly. Local citizens where I live are fucking with the public library and it’s infuriating and depressing and frustrating and I feel powerless to stop them because the majority of the people here are okay with it.
Trying to get books relocated/removed because they find them “obscene” (i.e. featuring gay characters or addressing things like racism). This kind of nonsense has been happening in a lot of libraries around the US, sadly.
Oh no…
Is this a situation where people with the loudest voices get their way, or is there some board pushing their views on the population?
What kind of recourse do you have in such situations?
Asking out of concern and interest, feel free to leave it at this if you don’t want to go into it.
A little of both, actually. Not sure what the recourse is, which is part of the distress.
But…coincidentally I just found out the city is hosting a book drive for literacy awareness this week, so my book club is donating copies of all of the books that have been removed to the book drive. Not much but it’s honest work, I guess!
Sorry to hear about your library, it’s awful when a place that’s supposed to have a positive influence on people gets treated like that.
At least the book drive will make up for things, a little bit… It’s great that you manage to put a positive spin on things.
I hope the drive will be a success, best of luck!
I started a new full time job at a deli, big change from sitting around all day. It is a pretty chill job, everyone is super nice, but my feet/legs/back are killing me. Hopefully the new shoes I ordered arrive today and help out. I’ve been pretty exhausted, but I think I’ll get used to it.
I got food poisoning on vacation yesterday so that fucking blows. Can only really lie down mostly and then I still feel like I got hit by a truck. Hopefully it gets better :(
Any chance it’s allergy related? I get hit pretty hard in the spring and early fall with allergies, and it has always felt remarkably similar to the early signs of when I had COVID.
Do you mean that you’re obese? I’ve actually met someone today that I really like who is obese, and I’ve had a ONS with someone who was obese. Don’t sell yourself short!
You know a lot of guys feel insecure about balding but I’ve always liked it. Same with gray hair. I also have a friend who is into people who are very skinny or are missing limbs. Weird I know but I am just saying you never know what other people look for. And at the end of the day its not your looks people fall for.
And I am not even talking about friendship here, which is arguably better for many people, or simply strangers.
You know this might sound made up but I’ve never met a confident woman except for that woman from the ONS. That’s what I fell for. She had been bullied so badly, at some point she just decided to start validating herself. It’s so rare.
And how is any of this related to friendship? Those are arguably better any way.
I don’t mean to invalidate your feelings but I feel people often want the things they can’t have, and when it comes to love that applies to everyone. I think romantic relationships are put too much on a pedestal in our culture. The truth is that finding true love is a rare thing and it isn’t something most of us should expect. And if you do happen to find it in your life, you don’t know when. It might have already happened or it might happen when you are 80.
Christian/platonic love can be just as fulfilling or even more so because it doesn’t have the carnal aspect. And that’s the kind of love you give, rather than expect to receive.
Flying out to visit my parents and brother this evening, so that’s pretty good.
What’s not very good is that my Mom got caught COVID for the first time last week. Then my brother says that he’s tested positive, though he’s not feeling anything. So yeah, I’m flying into the hot zone apparently. And as far as I know, I’ve never gotten COVID. That new booster that just got approved by the FDA can’t come soon enough.
Either way, it’ll be good to have the whole family together for about a week.
My relationships are really struggling. I’ve been focusing my time on installing and configuring Arch Linux on my desktop to take my mind off of it all.
Had an exposition over the weekend and it was amazing to see all the different perspectives, and made new contacts. I’m currently secretly living in my atelier so I really need contacts to find a better living situation, so that was a relief. Also my aunt and uncle were there and they were the last people I hadn’t come out to yet, because I love them but they can be very conservative at times. But well, it was kinda hard to hide considering that my new name was written on the flyers and that I was wearing my makeup. I can’t express how happy and relieved I am that they are completely supportive!
That’s great news! Sometimes I think things are better without a ‘conversation’ if you know what I mean. They can see you’re happy as you are and you don’t necessarily have to put pressure on yourself to explain anything.
Ya it was like that. I really hate it when people start asking about genitalia.
In this case it was more emotionally validating from their side, and we agreed we can talk more about it in detail another time because it doesn’t matter so much.
What’s funny is that I prepared really a lot to talk with them, an prepared materials and stuff. But then it went like this.
Mixed bag so far. It’s been hot over here and I’ve barely slept so feel like hell. Auditioned for a new choir this evening and got in which was nice, it’s a great choir but just annoying that it’s the opposite side of the city.
Seriously considering getting an ebike now that they’ve ended one of the escooter trials here. Hard to know where to start though, not had a bike since I was a teenager.
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