Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

#moodsnapshot https://awoo.space/media/mn5M4EQfmOJ2MhOsFdQ

I'll let them monkeys loose, I swear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfv6u4An8hU&feature=youtu.be&t=11s

#moodsnapshot

OH MY GOD I AM DONE WITH THE WORKWEEK THAT WOULD NOT DIE

Took a real nasty mood spill towards the end there. Peg and I were absorbing each other's stress like crazy and started manifesting our Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfsonas at each other. At least twice, I had to just sit and stare until my brain unlocked.

Much, much better now. Her mood's improved and we're back to our usual snarky banter. Now I'm gonna do AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE all weekend and love it.

Have fun out there, darlings.

This has just been a really exhausting week. Work is draining me really fast right now, since I have actual deadlines for once. I also seem to have pulled a classic move and just used my great quarterly review as an excuse to put more pressure on myself. Social obligations are piling up and turning stressful again, Peg and I have both been tense and snippy at each other all day, I'm already tired of dealing with random damaged people on the Ave every day...

I need some time off.

I think I'm gonna be taking this weekend off from socializing. I've been Mood 5, Brain 1 all week, and work has been giving me horrible writer's block all week. I need a few days to unclog my brain, catch up on exercise, play video games, mewl plaintively at Peggy---do anything at all except squint at street maps and come up with new ways to say "this is not how you do this" politely. :|

I can't believe A Bit of Fry and Laurie got away with saying "felching" on the air in 1990. (S2E1, 04:16) I wonder if the censors had just never heard it before...

"Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself."

--Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse

(I'm actually having a pretty decent morning. I just ran across that quote while looking up Bojack interviews and had to give it a nod.)

Oh, and binged The Tick with the ex-housemates. And got fed some of Buni's distressingly good caramel pull-apart bread. So, not a COMPLETELY lonely weekend. ^___^

Really want to sit down with someone for a long talk about which parts of The Tick worked for me. I'd recommend it, it was a lot of fun, I'd like a second season.. but is it just me, or was it just really *tropey* in places, especially with Protective Family Hijinx & the Hero's Call shit?

Also had a great, lonely weekend while Peg was at con and [TMI] when she got back. XD Accomplished very little except for getting stoned and playing Darkest Dungeon, but man, that was some fulfilling slacking.

Decided to just bail on work when she got home Monday, and... um... yeah, I won't be bitching about not getting any of my kinks pandered to for a while. Let's just say it was all very... jingly.

Today's ok, back to work deadlines, no motivation.

Besides that trivial health scare, I'm doing pretty great, honestly.

Feeling a lot better about the old household and finally digesting some of the guilt and frustration.

Finally read through my full work review and it's almost flawless. What really blows my mind is I got told my time metrics looked great-- I seriously expected a royal pranging for all the time I just... sit and stare.

What finally snapped me out of it was googling for the phrase "twice the risk of early death" and making a few comparisons.

Eventually I got to the point of "ok, well then, between the depression, the ADD, the sitting, the fried potatoes, the belly fat, taking prilosec, and having had a dad who died of a heart attack, I guess I just have 128x the risk of a normal person and it's a miracle I'm even walking." Yes, I know it doesn't work that way. XD

I fucking hate science "journalism." I just got the almighty shit triggered out of my phobia of having a heart attack because of that fucking study about the effects of sitting for long periods.

Had to spend a half-hour, one I should have spent working (or exercising!?) talking myself out of the idea that I was going to keel over instantly from 40 years of sitting.

I realize this is not rational, that's kinda the point. :)

Everything Bojack and Hollyhock said about honeydew melon in the finale is urgently, vitally true. Why can't we have more incisive commentary like this on television? And more importantly, who the fuck are these people who get excited over honeydew and what can we do to legislate against them?

Oh god, I think I need a break from Season 4 of Bojack. I think I'm gonna watch some old Sally Struthers commercials about starving orphans or something to cheer myself up. 😭

A-ha! I thought that article sounded a little too pat-- though to my shame I did mostly buy it and spread the story as likely to be true.

So yeah, that Voynich "solution" was apparently overhyped.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/experts-are-extremely-dubious-about-the-voynich-solution/

A little something I ran across today: Dan Ackroyd threatening to mangle Nazis way back in '77. https://awoo.space/media/xVXpSpXChOCUH6AwM3M

It's my weekend, I just got a really good quarterly review from my boss-in-law, Peg's out of town at con and I have the apartment to myself, and I have a half-ounce of Atomic Blueberry. Here's my anticipated #moodsnapshot:

https://awoo.space/media/C0zHeqUgcJ-BQgOy3TI

We should get like 20 of us together, go to the snootiest, trendiest, Eurotrashiest club in Seatte, and do The Fling to Tiesto or Davvincii or whoever the fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4r0Fgy2Rxo

This is pretty much what life at home with @egypturnash is like. https://awoo.space/media/Ko3OJjXSDMrJGmAk1AU

I read music just well enough to have taken SAN damage from this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJFNbL8-SA