Jan 30, 2019
Couldn’t get a good picture, but hair progress!
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Couldn’t get a good picture, but hair progress!
2019 kicking my arse so far but I’m used to it. Not only is my mum still in hospital since September, due to newly diagnosed chronic kidney disease which caused a psychotic break, it looks like my cat also has chronic kidney disease as his kidney function, like my Mum’s, is currently 25%. Universe has a pretty cruel sense of humour there. Cat is off to the vets to determine if it’s CKD, a tumour (bad) or a kidney stone (good). Increasingly worrying about the impact my cat dying would have on my mental health (no other family in England, only one or two friends I see in this city, an empty home besides the cat). Trying to manage my anxiety but, yeah, 2019 kicking my arse so far.
2019 is going to be the year I finally achieve the giant goth hair of my dreams
Just need to wait until payday then it’ll be crimpers and 100,000 litres of industrial strength hairspray
2018 highlights lest I forget it wasn't a total fucking shit show (L-R):
Handed in my PhD
discovered Laura Jane Grace and Against Me
passed my viva
saw Heathers at the PCC
saw Nine Inch Nails for the first time
organised bi event at work and got more involved with the LGBT+ network
saw Scottee’s Fat Blokes which was phenomenal
listened to The Cure's Disintegration - possibly my favourite album
got to hang with my BFF
Survived the academic year by the skin of my teeth. Can’t wait to spend Christmas stoned eating cheese and watching Christmas movies. Have to visit my mum on the psych ward on Christmas Eve which is extremely high on my list of Things I Really Don’t Want To Have To Do (because yes obviously I hate psych wards but I’m also very precious about protecting Christmas from Bad Stuff because childhood trauma) but
Nearly there!
So I’ve decided for LGBT+ history month in Feb I’m going to organise a charity LGBT+ pub quiz at work because - true facts - I’ve always secretly wanted to be a put quiz compare and would totally do that as a job if it were a viable option.
(I once did do a pub quiz style classroom quiz with my first year undergrads which was basically a pass-ag way of telling them ‘here are the gaps in your knowledge as you didn’t do fuck all of your learning this year, do better’ but it was good passive aggression because I gave out chocolates as prizes)
And I’m so excited for it but what if no-one comes?
This is what it must be like for people that have actual hopes and dreams beyond getting high under a blanket with the heating on eating sushi -
Which I have no shame about whatsoever.
So I’ve pretty much decided on a back piece: the Addams family mansion with the family motto - not in latin because pretentious plus this- ‘we gladly feast on those who would subdue us’
That’s hilarious right?
Because I told my best friend and she was like ‘ok’
But come on
IT’S SO GOTH
right?
Jesus christ there’s 8 days until payday and I’ve still got £90 in my account, how the fuck did this happen
(I took out a debt consolidation loan, which decreases my monthly repayments because less interest but I’ve still got zero chill post-payday so I’m totally shocked by this)