T Smith

💜💜💜 I'm sorry, this sucks. Would you like a chat in the near-ish future?

Three good things:

1. Lovely long chat with a friend over several hot drinks
2. I have the best friends: caring, kind, brilliant, thoughtful.
3. Tears of the Kingdom continues to be great.

Ooh, I've been considering getting Stardew Valley.

(I feel like this might be part of the "autistic people take things literally" thing? I mostly don't, but if my brain is losing capacity - too much other stuff going on or tired - then it becomes hard not to take everything literally.)

PSA: Malvern is pronounced as if Jules Verne had a child called Moll. You're welcome.

(A French exchange tutor had our entire class in thrall for minutes with a shaggy dog story about this, b/c it's hard to take things non-literally in a language you don't speak well.)

Waiting for a train & why does everyone in Birmingham have a small white fluffy dog? Lovely dogs, but an inconceivable number* have passed me in the last 5 minutes.

*3. And a small fluffy black one.

OMG I think it is just the same woman walking her dog back & forth. 🤦🏻‍♂️ fair.

When I was a child & didn't know Wimbledon Common was a place, I parsed the theme tune as "the Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we". Like some common Wombles. Vs. posh Wombles, or perhaps the greater spotted Womble (@thecolleencg.bsky.social may have come up with the latter on a geeky weekend).

Totally understandable & I'm sorry your (ex-)GP is lumping extra stress on you just before that! Good luck 💜

I'm so sorry, this is absolutely shit. I hope you can get a good doctor soon 💜

I specifically didn't order the "loaded" hot chocolate but I forgot that normal hot chocolate is almost as decadent. ("Loaded" comes with more cream & marshmallows, caramel sauce & an entire brownie balanced on top.)

A really fantastically extra hot chocolate in a jar-with-handle style mug, topped with 3" whipped cream and accompanied by three huge, home-made marshmallows.

Shoes acquired! (1 pair for dog walking/general summertime, 1 pair trainers for Fight Klub.) Plus a notebook (I have *so much* reading) & some colourful pasta (can you guess where I ended up for the last 3?)

And lunch at Pudding Pantry where I forgot, again, quite how extra their hot chocolate is.

Sprint was correct. Had a little snooze with him & now nearly in town for shoes & perhaps lunch.

Go you! And yay free breakfast.

I was going to go out to buy new shoes, but Sptint has just jumped up on the sofa & snuggled into my side so now I cannot move 😍💜

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Ironically part of the reason I did it was because I know someone else accidentally submitted the wrong document entirely, but because she'd uploaded a previous draft before the deadline, they were able to mark that instead!

Hurrah, it will either be deleted or I can submit via email, thank fuck.

It's as finished as it ever will be; I am embarrassed at how incredibly inadequate it is but there we go. Tomorrow, I will watch my emails like a hawk. Fuck.

Thank you & honestly at this point I almost wish the world would end. (Very selfish of me but my goodness this is an awful piece of work.)

('But why are you leaving it until the last minute?' I imagine EVERYONE thinking. Because I'm a fucking mess, that's why.

Shit.)

I have just cocked up & submitted an unfinished assignment, because I thought it would let me resubmit until the deadline (all the others have). Fuck. Emailed the course administrator, hoping for mercy.

(It's due tomorrow at noon, I could really do without the interruptions!)

The assignment is getting there, but my PC seems to be struggling to cope, which is unhelpful at best. (Rebooted itself with no warning earlier & just now became completely unresponsive so I had to hard reboot.)

What a nightmare. (And an unbelievable failure of reporting.)

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(I am making progress. I still think it's not going to be very good, but it might be not completely, embarrassingly awful.)

I am just picking up the assignment. (I've already worked 2.5 hours today. 🤨)

My boss's comments are a) helpful & b) do not say anything like "my god, you know nothing! Why did we employ you?!"

Yes, it seems unlikely but my brain knows how to write a worst-case scenario. (Just not an assignment.)

What a lovely shoe! Looks very snuggly, 10/10.

Oooooh macaroni cheese. (In my house always with wholewheat fusilli. Is that weird?)

Glad you're feeling better!