welcome to the weekly how’s your week going thread
this thread is a pretty straightforward and relaxed one for giving updates on how your week is going and chat like that. nothing special
on my front: last week was total chaos, so hoping for things to calm down this week because it is completely fucking up my groove; unfortunately reddit is not making that easy. this is also not ideally timed for my emotional state. anyways, read book 20 for the year (America City by Chris Beckett). on book 21. maybe i’ll marathon through a bunch of these in between keeping the site from being on fire
oh cool, our landlord is finally fixing the fucking hole in our bathroom ceiling (has been there for like an entire ass year). nice of them to eventually get around to it, i guess
to give you guys some perspective this wasn’t a little hole either. they had to take out an entire, probably 2ft by 2ft, square panel of the ceiling (there was a leak upstairs which fucked everything up). we’ve been living with that just casually above the bathtub for an eternity. very stupid, and landlords should not exist
did they just ignore you when you emailed/texted them about it or say “il be right on it” only to never show up either way thats an asshole move on their part
the landlord here is a company as far as i’m aware that just took over the complex. they recently began some outsourcing of calls to our front office and they aggressively do not give a fuck–which is also how it was with the company they bought it from except they didn’t do outsourcing, they were just incompetent.
so its effectively gone from bad to worse huh id much rather something not be fixed out of incompetence than just feel like im screaming into the void im guessing theres no chance of finding a better place either?
A year?!
Reminds me of back in April 2021 when the building’s chiller unit died. So no AC. It was unseasonably hot during that time, peaking into the upper 80s/low 90s F (~30-33C). Overnight, the temps were still pretty elevated, especially since this was in the middle of the city, which meant lots of heat radiating off the streets, buildings, etc.
It took the apartment managers like 4 weeks to get it fixed. People were starting organize protests. Our apartments ended up on the news.
They did buy me a portable AC though. And they gave my brother and I like half off rent for the month. Still sucked. Thank god I don’t live there anymore, since that wasn’t the only issue we experienced.
Hopefully you were able or will be able to wring some concessions out of them for them waiting a whole ass year!
Hopefully you were able or will be able to wring some concessions out of them for them waiting a whole ass year!
haha, no. what we we gonna do, move? there’s no housing around here that’s affordable, and we barely afford this place as is. we did get a new dishwasher, but that was incidental and also a thing they broke and didn’t fix for like six months.
Think I’ll have to share in calling this week total chaos as the last few days I’ve been moving across the country to pursue an internship at NASA. It’ll be my first week at work there so here’s hoping it goes well. I also have a class I’m currently taking with an exam tomorrow. Very stressful indeed.
Congratulations, good luck! Remember not to swear at your bosses
Lol yeah I’m not planning on it!
Omg that’s so fucking cool, congrats and hope you it goes dope !
Thanks! Going well so far!
After a couple of months doing photosynthesis, my ADHD medication finally decided to allow me to study this morning. But no more than 90 minutes. Now I’m again in my endless scrolling and doing nothing productive.
Besides that, I’m trying to be more active in kbin.social / lemmy instances to create more content through comments or post and engage, knowing the inevitable doom from Reddit (although I have an user on sopuli since last year).
It’s been good so far. We had thought one of my cats had cancer, but we got a call from the vet yesterday and it turns out she doesn’t, so that’s excellent.
I’m trying out this timer app to try and keep myself on some kind of schedule. So far so good!
Woke up at 3am and couldn’t fall back asleep, but it’s a freaking GOOD day, got some caffeine, not a lot of meetings at work today, and the Lemmy community grows, I’m loving it here
It’s going pretty good because I think I’m finally making some progress towards being more focused. Although I need to confess that was pretty thrilled with the onboarding on lemmy and checked it a lot during the weekend.
Apart from that I’m cutting ties with general stuff and news and focusing on: books (reading The Stranger right now), one single magazine about current issues in the world, hearing good music and starting to play an old RPG after great advice I received on c/gaming. I’ll workout after work and then start a campaign.
What was the RPG recommended?
Oooh the stranger, I love that book! I remember how baffled I was when my father gave it to me when I was younger, it was unlinke anything I’d ever read, but definitely had an impact on me
Very good! Just found this community, learning to navigate the site a bit (so far it’s nice and straightforward). Made some onigiri for the first time with scrambled egg filling. Came out decent!
I had two absolutely wonderful dates yesterday and I’m still glowing from the experience.
Helping to manage and grow beehaw these last few days has kept me exceptionally busy. It’s fun and exciting and challenging and I need to make sure to balance that against my own mental health and if/when to engage with users and when to let others help.
I’m really annoyed with my care team right now when it comes to coordinating the next post-op steps for my peripheral nerve stimulator. I have a lot of feedback for them, but right now just trying to understand what I need to do next and what I need to do to get them to program my shoulder implant. I guess I’m a cyborg bunny now, officially 🤖🐰
I’m doing pretty great. Spent all weekend volunteering at pride events and meeting lots of amazing people. Been having fun hanging around beehaw too so that’s been a positive as well 😊
Really good here! My mom is visiting and I took a week off, so I’m fixing up the house while she’s helping with the kids. I’ve cleaned the garage, put cat6 drops in every room, and repainted my deck. And it’s only day 3!
Damn, I’m impressed
I’ve had better weeks. One of my guinea pigs who has been sick for a while got sick enough that she had to be put down, with the added bonus that this became obvious about 15 minutes before I had to go meet my new landlord to pick up the keys to my new apartment. On the plus side, moving into the new apartment has been easy, I thought I would need to do a lot of back and forth to move stuff before the movers come to take the big things, but seems like that’s mostly done. Also, my other guinea pig is doing well despite the loss of her friend, so that is good also.
I’m really sorry about your guinea pig. It’s always tough losing a pet.
Thank you
Monday is the one day of the week that I have to go into the office so it starts off with me being exhausted (somehow my sleep schedule got messed up last weekend despite me trying to go to bed at a decent hour) but that improves somewhat over time.
A new roommate moved in last weekend and she’s definitely a lot more outgoing than I am but she seems nice so as long as she pays her rent on time I think we’ll get along fine.
National Novel Writing Month, the big event in November, has two smaller events in April and July called ‘camps’. I finished my first novel (that was started during NaNo 2021) in February, and took some time off after I finished it. But now with the July camp looming, I’m scrambling to get the outline and character sheets done in time to start my sequel come the 1st.
No idea if I’ll get done in time, but I really hope I do. I really want to participate in this event.
So, my week? Crazy and busy but productive.
I really appreciate this reminder that nanowrimo camp exists because I always forget and honestly it sounds like a good idea rn.
I used to forget all the time too before I really decided to buckle down and start writing for real. I have dates two months in advance for all NaNo events yo remind me that if I hadn’t started prep yet, it was time to get going. Those are set for the next fifty years.
Not a fan of the people that previously worked on the application I’m maintaining, to be honest.
My partner lives in the US, and I’m Canadian. It’s been stressful for both of us to pay for visits and to be constantly saying goodbye. I need to get a stable income, then we’ll be able to live together. We’ve been working on an indie game together, and I hope it’ll do well. Our Steam page just went up, which feels really nice.
I’m rooting for you!
