this week’s book is Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
Doing everything in my power to not burn out/get fired and keep trucking. Thank goodness for coffee. Hang in there everyone
23 job applications out to door. Nothing yet. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to everyone else in the world. My old university gave me a courtesy appointment just to help me maintain my academic creds. Publish or perish, as they say.
Had a paper sent back to me. Reviewer told me that I’m “ill informed” and “overstated” the problems of the executive branch. That the US govt is working well. I had to dig deep into my academic shade throwing library to retort and felt great about my response. I think I captured the dumpster fire meme in academic prose.
Very focused on landing a job this week and fueled by coffee.
Just returned back to work this week (I’m an IT Consultant), so kind of struggling to get back into that headspace after 3 weeks break. Also just found out the promotion I was meant to get when I returned is now coming in 3 months 🙃
Congratulations!
Thankyou!! Shame I have to wait until April now for it to go into effect, but at least I have something to look forward to now 🙂
Resident of Minnesota dealing with the chaos here from ICE. Quite stressful week to be honest
Fuck. More power to you.
Still job hunting, still practicing sewing.
My wife and I started a birthing course last week and holy fuck if that isn’t a slap in the face from the patriarchy. Took all our energy not to eye roll at the heteronormativity and misogyny in literally every comment by a man in the room. Big ‘I hate my wife’ energy which really makes you think well why are you all here then? Which sucks because I’d really hope to learn from other couples experiences but alas the straights typically have little to offer.
That’s awful. We were lucky enough to take a course from a doula who worked out of the hospital system we did our birth care through. I still have all of our materials plus an unused code for an informational app, and would be more than happy to send you a little care package if that would help in any way
Thanks a lot for the offer! Actually we just had the second session this evening and it was better. Just wish there were more queer oriented courses out there but this one will be fine overall I think. I’ll let you know if we’re interested at a later time.
How’s your kiddo doing?
I’m glad it was better! Fwiw my wife and I did a bunch of eye rolling during the snack breaks and on the ride home from several of the classes.
Our kiddo is doing really well, we hit 1y4m last week - she has all teeth except her 2 year molars (tons of fun), is transitioning from two to one nap a day (tons of fun), and is doing her darndest to use words for things, which is actually fun.
Barring a change of plans, I’ll be back up at my ex-wife’s for a few days starting tomorrow. I don’t know what we’re doing.
ETA: It appears the mother of her grandson got into some legal trouble, so she’s possibly taking custody of her kids, which would preclude the visit. Never a boring time with her.
