Misc. {some nights we're choking on the words/but some we light our fires}

[kaberett]

• Group Christmas dinner last night. Head of Group checked with staff whether it was okay to smoke inside the building. My coughing & throat were noticeably worse when he was more actively smoking the e-cig than when he wasn't (even when I had my back to him so had no idea what he was doing other than lung reaction). On the other hand, he noticed me looking twitchy so I've managed to discuss it a little... and awkwardly it turns out that he was already smoking less in meetings with me than with all his other students. Augh.
  
• Lots of being-scared-of-things at the moment. Need to sort out what fears are which. The scared-I'm-crazy (wrt the smoke exposure thing) vs the scared-of-accidentally-dating vs just being so tired again. (Actually, I just need to write that post about last week's Elementary, I think, to discuss this more; right, that's why I wasn't going to do that here.)
  
• Housemate is home. <3
  
• Lunch with my mum in the NHM was nice (she was there for work and it's right next door, so).
  
• I am having so many feelings about Stray Italian Greyhound (god I just want to lay down/these colors make my eyes hurt/this feeling calls for everything that I am/not//I’m not that kind/I’m so good at shooting down any notion/this tired world could change) and also a bunch more about Least Complicated (I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself)
  
• Everything hurts pretty consistently at the moment, for reasons I am not at all clear on, and I am just. so. tired.
  
• Okay, I will get up the national rail website to prompt myself to sort out tickets to York for later this month, and then I will listen to Never Look Away again, and then I will head down to lab and do a five-minute job and then I will come back up here and try to get caught up with paperwork and then I will do another fifteen minutes in lab. Ugh. Everything is slow and difficult, and executive function isn't; SAD, I think.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

*slow high-five from one member of the Worn-Out & Scared Club to another*

<3333

[kaberett]

kiiiiiinda listening to How Much More on loop this afternoon

<3

[littlebutfierce]

Ahahahaha <33333

I've been fidgeting around w/a 5 songs set in my head for months (possibly since last year?!) called something like "nobody here but us brainweasels," I should get around to posting it, except it might be too brainweasely for me to do loooool.

[kaberett]

oh fuck Don't Be Afraid To Sing ;_;

[birke]

If e-cigarettes are similar enough to conventional cigarettes that they cause problems for bystanders (any bystanders), it seems like they should be included in a healthy-workplace policy.

[alexseanchai]

+1

[cadenzamuse]

+ lots of agree

If you can't smoke traditional cigarettes in your building, NO E-CIGS EITHER, SERIOUSLY WTF

[swaldman]

Mmm, Never Look Away. I could quite see myself singing that in the right circumstances :-)