I'm a penny in a fountain just waiting on my luck to change

Name's Meredith; friends call me Mere.  Bisexual, white, cis woman.  She/her/hers. Currently an accountant.  Here for women characters; sometimes I tolerate guys. Currently fixated on Leverage and Hadestown.

[alinaandalion]

I made a kimchi omelette for breakfast and it was so good that I'm already thinking about when I get to eat it again (tomorrow morning)

[robinade]

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

1-Minute Typing Test — TypingTest.now

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com

[lionofchaeronea]

On a good day, I type 80 to 85 wpm.

[alinaandalion]

company is doing "safety subjects" and focusing on mental health. totally a sign that everything is normal and no one is struggling under a ridiculous load. everything is totally fine!

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[faulsimon]

how do you feel about your hometown

love it/never wanna leave (still live there)

mid/whatever (still live there)

hate it (still live there)

love it/miss it (don't live there)

mid/whatever (don't live there)

hate it/good riddance (don't live there)

im bald

Voting ended onJul 15

saw a post that made me wonder this. please tag with your thoughts im curious!!

[alinaandalion]

pretty sure my mother-in-law is mad at me now because I 1. wouldn't agree to let her stay in our house during our visit because neither of our spare rooms are cleared out enough to fit a bed and we also don't have a guest bed yet and 2. I won't pull baby boy out of childcare for the duration of her visit and let her take care of him.

for the first, we will eventually have a study/guest bedroom but we're still unpacking all of our boxes and I am not going to rush out to get the daybed we want before we're ready. plus, we're not going to allow her to stay for two weeks (or worse, however long she's planning on manipulating us into letting her visit but we're holding firm to the two weeks timeline). in fact, we're never going to let anyone stay with us for longer than a week outside of emergencies. a week is more than long enough for guests, especially ones that drive me a bit crazy at the best of times.

and for the second, she won't accept that it's not good for baby boy to massively disrupt his routine. I've offered to keep him out two days a week so she can take care of him. I am also a little concerned that she won't be able to pick him up anymore. he's grown a lot and even though I carry him around every single day, he's heavy for me. so I am a bit concerned about her ability to take care of him but mostly, he just won't understand why things are suddenly very different. he's just not old enough yet

and it's just so frustrating because it would be nice if one of her visits didn't cause me and my husband extreme amounts of stress. but every "no" is just an apparent invitation for negotiation and it's so. fucking. exhausting.

[onceuponawhine]

How much of your paycheck do you typically save each month?

Nothing/not earning

<5%

<10%

<15%

<20%

20% or more

Voting ended onJul 11

[alinaandalion]

love to get sick during year-end, which means I can't use any sick leave unless I'm dying because there's no one to do the work

not that I would probably be able to mentally handle taking sick leave. I'm getting anxious when I try to work from home because it feels like slacking off

[alinaandalion]

had another freak-out yesterday because I have no control over anything in my life right now. not my job, not my body, not my house. and it turns out my anxiety doesn't like that

in terms of the job opportunity that's come up, idk if I can even interview with the mental state I'm in. I'm disgusted by my body and the idea of trying to fit into interview clothes or worse, buy new ones, makes me want to die. and I feel like I don't have anything to offer on the work front so what's the point. what's the fucking point

[alinaandalion]

my husband's company has posted a job that I think I would be qualified for, and some of his coworkers made sure to point out the job posting to him so he could tell me about it

but I'm still feeling so hesitant about applying. it's not like I would be working with him. I just...don't know

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[alinaandalion]

thought my depression was getting better

it is, in fact, getting so much worse and i get the joy of working constantly because it's year-end

[alinaandalion]

I had a bit of time on my hands yesterday so I decided to take my company's new rollout of copilot out for a spin in excel

at first, I just had it do a few things in a spreadsheet I had created and then just asked it to run an analysis. and the results made me feel sick to my stomach because they were good and accurate.

then I had a think and was like "I did a lot of work organizing the raw data into something usable so that might be skewing the results. let's try the raw data." did that, asked it to run an analysis. got absolute dogshit that was useless and wrong and felt a lot better.

I do think it's important to learn how to use the tools that are available and will keep playing around with it to see what might improve my work processes and what won't. but it could not do what I did, which was align data from two different payroll systems and identify what was useful information and what was not. the results it gave me also included zero formulas so if I didn't already know what the outcome should be, I would have had a hell of a time checking it and figuring out what went wrong. anyway, it was a useful experiment and as my husband pointed out, even if I don't end up using it a lot in my work, being able to talk in interviews about what I find useful and what I don't, and why, is still going to be beneficial for my future.

I do continue to be concerned about people just blithely using it, particularly entry level employees just getting started in their careers. it's not a magic machine, it's just one more tool that has the potential to create both efficiencies and real problems. and you need to be able to know the difference.

[kjscottwrites]

Where are you on the kinsey scale of fiction/fic reading?

0 Exclusively read original fiction

1 Predominantly read original fiction, rarely read fanfic

2 Predominantly read original fiction, often read fanfic

3 Equally read original fiction and fanfiction

4 Predominantly read fanfic, often read original fiction

5 Predominantly read fanfic, rarely read original fiction

6 Exclusively read fanfic

x I don't read lol

I wanna talk about it / results

Voting ended onJun 24

I'm curious too, about the drive towards one or the other. If youre a 1-2, what makes you seek out fanfic? If youre a 4-5, what makes you seek out original fiction?

[alinaandalion]

I've started just lying in bed or sitting and doing nothing because I'm so miserable

was kind of hoping this depression would have cleared up by now because it's not like I can just quit my job even if it makes me wish I were dead

[clowniconography]

wait ok this is actually one that has caused some contention before when I've talked to people about it. reblog and tag whether or not you check the weather prediction every day before going out

[alinaandalion]

I took a week off work to try and recover a bit and now that I have to go back, I can just feel the anxiety coming back.

like it took until last Friday for me to feel a bit more normal even though I was still feeling stress and anxiety when I tried to sleep