I don't want to jinx it, but it's looking like my needing to find a job woes may completely evaporate in the best possible way. Will take any crossed limbs for the next 4-6 weeks to ensure that this option really materializes.

Me: *buys a new bookshelf because the old ones are overflowing and I also need to take home my sciencey books from the office* Me, immediately after: oh no, I need to buy more books, these shelfs are so empty!!

Lads, my gut instinct was right and my overactive ovaries have produced another large (5ish cm) cyst. 😬 It's a hybrid model (half Endo, half functional cyst), so there is hope that my body may be able to resolve at least part of it without intervention. But JFC, this is getting annoying.

I'm glad Dingo is happy. I, however, feel like my soul levitated out of my body in horror at the sight of this image, lol.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Newsflash: being on the job market sucks and I do not like it.

I feel this dog on a spiritual level.

This is Taco. He is the most relaxed little guy in the world. Mostly because he does not know about emails or the economy, but shoulder rubs help too. 13/10 (IG: tacofoxyhuahua)

Backyard fox 🦊 documentation, as seen from the balcony, for @aldiwitch.bsky.social. He has a bum leg, but otherwise is living his best life rooting around the garbage. 😁

Let me be the first to say: LOL. (This is a German politics skeet.)

My discipline's international academic association just moved its 2027 conference location from Chicago to Glasgow over.... *gestures in the general direction of the US* alla that. Shame it's too late to do the same with this year's conference (Denver).

I am now for the first time experiencing the one symptom you do *not* want with confirmed bowel endometriosis (I'll let you fill in the blanks to limit the public oversharing 😬) and the immediate anxiety is killing me.

So, I guess the new strategy is to just turn the world economy off and on again until it starts working again? Cool.

I am sure feeling liberated off of what little cash is in my portfolio, lol. Btw, great trick, US gov, to tie people's retirement to the stock market, then deliberately tank it. Owning the libs by dying on the Walmart floor.

My gynaecologist described me as "a challenge" today bc neither my uterus nor both my ovaries are remotely where they are supposed to be and v difficult to image on ultrasound as a result, so that's fun. :'D But no new endo cysts, so that's good news!

When you google a weird recurring symptom like "swollen lymph nodes the week before period" and naturally, the answer is endometriosis. Bc ofc. Anyway, happy endometriosis awareness month, lol.

:)

Does... I mean, does Zuck realize things did not exactly end that well for Caesar? And right before the Ides of March, too?

Both excellent.

The fact that my discipline's international academic association now saw the need to re-issue visa letters for this year's Denver conference omitting research topics lest they be deemed too woke is, uh, not confidence inspiring.

Aren't we all, lately?

Not how I would ideally choose to spend my Sunday, but y'know. Not feeling the late stage Weimar Republic vibes in this house, either. Heartening, at least, to see 200k people get out there on a cold February day. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Brain is still braining, unfortunately. Think it's time to get in touch with the psychiatrist about alla that.

This is Maisy. She gets an additional party hat for each birthday, and she just turned nine. 13/10 may this tradition go on forever

Ewww, crappy, crappy mental health night. Haven't had one of those in a while, unsure how much I can hope for this just being a random aberration. 🤔

Happy New Year! I made it to the free new year's day run for the first time since 2019? 2020? I take that as a promising start. 🎉

My thrilling NYE plan is to deep clean as much of my apartment as possible, lol. Aren't I an exciting person to know?

Merry crisis, everyone!