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Tell me how I'm supposed to focus on "important things" when sumer is icumen in lhude sing cuccu groweþ sed and bloweþ med and springþ þe wde nu sing cuccu sing cuccu

rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

katelyn-danger

Change or die. You either change, or you die.

I did a one card tarot pull on Saturday for myself and it was the 9 of Swords (which means fear, anxiety, negative thinking, stress, etc) which I usually interpret as the universe telling me that I need to stop wallowing and start developing active solutions to whatever is causing me to worry, which feels on the nose as I spiral over unknowns.

#misc: about me #tarot #I also pulled death from my other deck that I don't use very often #so the cards are definitely pointing to change but what the looks like I'm not so sure #the 9 of swords jumped out of the deck as I was shuffling #which means pay attention #so I am trying to

My interview for the archives position I applied for back in April is scheduled for next week. I think they have a pretty full candidate pool, our HR person sent me 11 time slots to choose from and then asked me this morning if I was able to switch to a different slot if needed (which I can, but he said he was going to try to give me my preferred slot).

I've been kind of annoyed because everyone at work who knows I applied is acting like I'm definitely going to get it, but I don't share their optimism because I've seen solid internal candidates passed up here many times. So a large candidate pool makes me nervous.

I got a tarot reading over Memorial Day weekend, and the reader kept telling me that money was a recurring theme in every spread she pulled for me, and that I have a change coming, and that she thinks it's a new job opportunity. And obviously I like tarot but I know it's a guide not an actual view of the future. And the reader probably was just able to tell that her comments along those lines resonated with me.

#misc: about me #honestly I do feel like I have a lot of people here rooting for me to get it which is such a nice feeling #but I have such a hard time reading the main hiring manager just in general and I don't know how she feels about me #I've led plenty of panels where I've interviewed internal candidates who I like personally but don't want to manage #and know it's totally possible to be in the pool but not a serious contender #anyway I'm going to prep as best I can #and go in with a positive mindset #and be my honest and authentic self and we'll see where I land #i'm not unhappy in my current job #but the application process for this other job has made me feel restless in my current position #I do think something new wouldn't be a bad thing for me but I like my current employer and don't really want to jump around somewhere new #but I also don't want to manage a branch which really limited my options

vintage-tigre

I know I should go to fencing today because I'm not going on Thursday (I'm working an evening shift instead), but I got home from a very busy trip to Boston at like 10:30 last night and I'm very tired today!

#misc: about me #I took today of work when requesting leave for the trip in the first place #so thank you past me!#I was visiting k and we had a really great time and I'm so happy I went but also travel is tiring #also today has been busy too! I baked bread and did laundry and balanced my budget post-trip

Unrelated to cozy books, but I can't decide what I want to read next ☹️

#misc: about me #currently reading #I have three books checked out and an ARC on my Kindle #but I don't want to read any of them!#and I just made a list of books to look for at work before I leave #but who's to say I'll actually want to read any of those by the time I get them home #been checking out a lot of Westerns lately #idk why #objectively the polar opposite of cozy though 😂

I think perhaps I simply do not enjoy "cozy" reads. I feel like they are very trendy right now, and I have a coworker who recommends a lot of them to me, and I never actually end up enjoying them.

#misc: about me #currently reading #I like Becky Chambers so I always trick myself into thinking I like cosy but in reality I don't think I do!#I find TJ Klune cloying #the Japanese trend of 5 shorter stories that make up one book about people improving their lives just annoy me #(you know the ones... before the coffee gets cold. what you need is in the library. those books)#I don't need to be reading doom and gloom all the time but I think I find the cost trend disingenuous somehow #it just rubs me the wrong way #I'm reading one now (automatic noodle) and I am just not that into it #I understand why people like them! I get it!#especially in these trying times!#they just aren't for me

I've had a light headache since yesterday evening, I can only assume from the heat and changing weather pressure happening outside at the moment, but none of my usual tricks are working to actually get rid of it which means this is going to be a long evening at work.

One of the people on my team got sent flowers yesterday, which is very sweet, and it's a lovely arrangement, but all the lilies in the bouquet are not helping my headache!

Another one of my coworkers told me yesterday that she thinks my skills aren't being utilized effectively in my current role, and I'm thinking hard about that as I read fanfiction on my phone at my desk this afternoon.

Also, the library director was chatting with me yesterday and said she'd heard from several sources that I'd applied for the archives position (which she was excited to hear) and then she asked me if I was alright with people talking about that behind my back, and I had to be like, look, this is the most gossipy place I've ever worked in my life. I knew when I told a few specific people that it was going to be widely known within days, it's fine. They're all going to find out when I interview anyway!

#misc: about me #we randomly had a TON of incidents yesterday but outside of that this has been a very boring work week #my coworker told me that because she was trying to convince me to apply for a certified public manager program 😂#and I was like all of the classes in that program look super boring #it's too darn hot and I can't take more medicine for my head until 3 #wrt the library director asking if I was comfortable with gossip I really wanted to be like 'if I say no are you going to send out a messag #telling everyone to stop talking about me? because that would make it worse “

Did you know you can just do a simple internet search for "university syllabus [topic]" and find recommended reading lists for like any subject?

#lifehack #misc: about me #it's a slow day at work #my brain is under stimulated #and it's like 95° outside so I can't even go on a walk about it #my to read list is too ambitious already I do not need to add to it #you don't get like every syllabus sometimes you just get course descriptions #but there are syllabi out there and publicly available #and your local public library probably has some of the books on the list #and access to basic databases like jstor

swordofmoonl1ght

"Don't you think we should study how a creature like this survives regardless of the radiation it absorbs?"

Takashi Shimura as Dr. Kyohei Yamane in ゴジラ (GOJIRA, 1954) dir. Ishiro Honda

#takashi shimura #Godzilla #in this house we love and respect Godzilla

spillybun-deactivated20190921

Boy ain’t that the truth

thoodleoo

extremely funny when students get really into some harmless "vintage" activity to the point of absurdity. right now it's hacky sack, which is not something i ever thought i would see my students playing en masse. and yet here they are organizing competitive hacky sack teams. taking over any space they can to kick a hacky sack around. i had to chase a group to morning assembly today because they were busy playing hacky sack. just saw one of my students sending an email that said "stop adding randos to our team they're the worst sackers." 2026 year of the hacky sack ig

thoodleoo

apparently stores are running out of hacky sacks. their voracity for hacky sack is outpacing the supply chain. beautiful hacky sack world

#had to tell a group of teens twice last week that they can't play hacky sack in the library #something that I didn't think needed saying but there ya go

streetlight-spam

it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

streetlight-spam

it’s tuesday i’m in the evil lab

streetlight-spam

it’s wednesday i’m in the time loop

streetlight-spam

it’s thursday i’m in the medieval torture apparatus

streetlight-spam

🌸it’s friday i’m in love🌸

I also have been thinking about what I'd like my social circle to be, and I think what I feel like I'm lacking is community. Like, I don't have a close friend group where I live, and that would be nice, but I also know it's really hard to build that in your 30s. I know talking about building community is a trendy thing these days (at least in my area it is), but I do genuinely think it's something that myself and a lot of people are missing from their lives. I'm friendly with my neighbors but I don't actually know them. I have a few volunteer groups that I occasionally flit in and out of, but it's not consistent. I don't have an easy solution for it, but it's on my mind.

#misc: about me #look at me taking my therapists criticism seriously #I'm actually going to put more thought into this and come back to her with a legit answer to the question she always asks #and I never have an answer to #which is if I woke up tomorrow and my life was exactly what I want it to be what would that look like #this is like 24 hours of initial mulling it over not an actual answer yet #this most might self destruct #we'll see if I feel like it's too vulnerable later 😂

I think I don't actually want to go back to school, I just want someone to give me a syllabus of readings on a topic and then have a small guided discussion group for them. Why is the only option for something like that a formal class or a book club? (I know I work in a library and could coordinate this as a program and it would likely actually be super popular, but I simply hate programming and will not be doing that).

#misc: about me #just thinking out loud #I know I can find reading lists and stuff online #but I want someone who knows what they're talking about to talk me through them #I love reading and I read broadly but some things benefit from structure #there are community ed courses here but they're more hands on arts/crafts/cooking or language focused #just let me audit some history courses somewhere I guess !#I also do not like book clubs #I've mentioned that before #they simply do not work for me

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