my mother in law is visiting. she won't tell us she's cold but there will be signs, like asking "so do you guys have heat?"

cracking up that today's main character is a "thought leader" who's annoyed the shit out of me for years

having my first mental health crisis of the second trump era :) it's like groundhog day

I'm having a weird mental health day so I am going to take a shower and do the dishes and put away the laundry. but first. I am going to play Mario kart world just a little

our 25-year-old babysitter said "I got this book out of the little free library, you ever heard of it? it's called Eat, Pray, Love?"

I am having a nice time at work :)

giggling while I photoshop a vr headset onto my dog for a meeting with my boss. they're paying me for this lmao

2000 Irish parents and me :)

today in BigTech Problems: I joined the parenting slack channel that has 2000 people in it and now that I'm in there it appears everyone else is in Ireland??

second week at my new job and they haven't really given me anything to do yet but I'm desperate to impress them. anxiety levels through the roof. brain telling me I'm gonna get fired if I don't find some made up shit to do

IT guy at my new gig said "awesomesauce" no fewer than seven times during onboarding

i think the thing that i will miss the most about my freelance gig is the palpable tension between our associate creative director and our social strategist. they HATE each other

it’s the final week of my freelance gig and if I never see a corporate-supplied windows laptop again it will be too soon. what a piece of shit

I don’t like the new lorde song :/

he said "honestly i'm mostly feeling relief" he was there for FIVE MONTHS

update: one of those people got laid off today

idk what's going on at my old job but they hired two people onto my immediate team since they laid me off and now they are both in my DMs asking to chat

a job i've been interviewing for just asked if i can send availability to speak with the SEVEN people on the panel in the next round. be for fucking real, SEVEN?

i'm interviewing for a contract role in big tech via a third party staffing firm and so far all i've determined the staffing firm does is set up video meetings wrong

not my mother in law helpfully suggesting I take vacation the next time we visit. im a freelancer, if I don’t work I don’t get paid. I would love to be on vacation!!

the interpersonal work drama is so much more fun when you're a freelancer and not really part of it. like i'm pretty sure one of my coworkers hates the other and it's the most exciting thing to happen to me in weeks

had a job interview scheduled for 1:30pm and they canceled it at 1:29pm lol

spit on a cybertruck today :)

so it turns out the possibility of getting my dream job was a load-bearing structure to my mental health

What excites you most about this opportunity? asked on a job application

i think i should be allowed to put "having a job and health insurance" in this box

zoomer i work with just spelled it GIPH

guys I’m feeling really bad about the job stuff this week. I’ve been trying to stay optimistic but it’s been hard. I know I am good at what I do but the job market is so saturated.

just a really bleak time to be seeking full-time employment, even worse time to try to make a career change probably, but here we are

new wave of job rejections in this morning, all from positions where i had an internal referral :)

on some all-hands call for my freelance gig this morning and they made the new people introduce themselves by answering "what is your superpower?" and the woman who went before me said "synergy" and i blacked out. no idea what i said.