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Apr. 16th, 2026 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressI'm trying to be better at _stuff_. The warm weather is coming back, so that's helping. I despair a little, wondering if it will ever be possible to put structures into place that actually support me year round.
(I have also been despairing a little, lo these last six months or so, as I stumble over wordsing from 2020 and realize that I was probably mentally healthier then, which is wild considering how much worse certain things were. The end of the world has been fuckin' _hard_, y'all! I'm glad for the ways in which there is good community to ride it through with.)
Next week is April vacation, and I will fuck around town for the weekend, then go down as efficiently as I can to Providence to hang with Tuesday for the week --it only just struck me today that I would most likely be leaving on Monday, meaning I'll be trying to travel on public transit on Marathon Day. I'm sure this will be fine.
(It will not be fine, but I am willing to be very very patient.)
The real tricky part will be packing --I need to figure out if I'm going straight to NEFFA from Tues's, which will be an extra layer of packing. I would also like to not bring an infinity of grading with me, so maybe I can get the tests graded over the weekend? This does not feel likely.
But I am looking forward to being floppy and low-maintenance in someone else's space. Make some food, play some video games, do some knitting, perhaps. Maybe I can bring useful projects that I want to work on down with me, and try and do some of that while Tues is at work. We'll see.
Work proper has been rough as hell, in ways I don't care for. It's non-renewing week, where everyone who didn't get hired back learns this fact, often with very little warning. I am Not Happy about the structures in place that are causing that. It would be nice if there were better ways to cope with supervisors who routinely eat rocks for breakfast and refuse to actually engage with their employees in a way that's remotely helpful.
Also we're t-minus one wakeup until April Vacation and the children are READY for it. Which is tentatively fine, but gosh, it sure would be nice if they were also READY for Geometry along the way.
At least I get to walk home with my work-bestie. That part is lovely! And I had a student trust me with the very early stages of their transition, and ask me today if I would tell some other staff on their behalf (because they felt nervous to do it themself). It felt very honoring!
There is hope for the future, or maybe there is just community and joy right now.
~Sor
MOOP!
(I have also been despairing a little, lo these last six months or so, as I stumble over wordsing from 2020 and realize that I was probably mentally healthier then, which is wild considering how much worse certain things were. The end of the world has been fuckin' _hard_, y'all! I'm glad for the ways in which there is good community to ride it through with.)
Next week is April vacation, and I will fuck around town for the weekend, then go down as efficiently as I can to Providence to hang with Tuesday for the week --it only just struck me today that I would most likely be leaving on Monday, meaning I'll be trying to travel on public transit on Marathon Day. I'm sure this will be fine.
(It will not be fine, but I am willing to be very very patient.)
The real tricky part will be packing --I need to figure out if I'm going straight to NEFFA from Tues's, which will be an extra layer of packing. I would also like to not bring an infinity of grading with me, so maybe I can get the tests graded over the weekend? This does not feel likely.
But I am looking forward to being floppy and low-maintenance in someone else's space. Make some food, play some video games, do some knitting, perhaps. Maybe I can bring useful projects that I want to work on down with me, and try and do some of that while Tues is at work. We'll see.
Work proper has been rough as hell, in ways I don't care for. It's non-renewing week, where everyone who didn't get hired back learns this fact, often with very little warning. I am Not Happy about the structures in place that are causing that. It would be nice if there were better ways to cope with supervisors who routinely eat rocks for breakfast and refuse to actually engage with their employees in a way that's remotely helpful.
Also we're t-minus one wakeup until April Vacation and the children are READY for it. Which is tentatively fine, but gosh, it sure would be nice if they were also READY for Geometry along the way.
At least I get to walk home with my work-bestie. That part is lovely! And I had a student trust me with the very early stages of their transition, and ask me today if I would tell some other staff on their behalf (because they felt nervous to do it themself). It felt very honoring!
There is hope for the future, or maybe there is just community and joy right now.
~Sor
MOOP!
I'm sure it will be fine
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