Oh I didn’t realise he was a wee kitten! I thought he was just small. I can’t wait to see him in his full glorious floofiness. So much fur to love.

I would die for those toe fluffs

100% humidity outside - that explains why EVERYTHING is currently very wet. And foggy. Might be the same tomorrow, weekend’s looking promising for some sun though. My split system was being weird, blowing hot and cold, but the internal unit air filters were quite clean. Gave them a wash anyway. Maybe I need to create more space in front of the external unit and give it a bit of a vacuum or something

Cold enough that even my colleagues were wearing a puffer jacket indoors. I chickened out and drove in rather than walking because my fingers damn near fell off just in the few minutes between car and office. But my body is definitely feeling the effects of being sedentary :/ I’m going to try and walk in tomorrow for sure.

There’s still a deluge of work coming through, but at least I’m not handling it solo - I can’t wait for my other colleague to be back after the school hols so I can palm off some other stuff, sit down and improve some of these processes before the can gets kicked even further down the road into the next universe.

Thinking of making some pulled pork-style jackfruit now, for lunch tomorrow. Off I go into a rabbit hole of recipes.

I approve of your chunky mortar and pestle

Haven’t checked on them tbh, but I suspect they’ll be okay… I’ll have another look tomorrow, I think they’ll need a water soon.

I specifically picked this apartment because of the aspect (technically northeast). And I’m hoping and praying they don’t bump the rent for a while because I really don’t want to be forced into a darker place if that’s all I’ll be able to afford.

Oh man I thought today was gonna be cruisey, and I did finish nearly everything by 1pm and stretched out my time at uni a bit, but being the conscientious idiot that I am, I decided to do one last work task when I got back to make up a lil bit of the 2 hours I was away (even though the deadline isn’t due for ages and nobody’s keeping track of my hours at this job)…

…what was supposed to be a quick half an hour jobbie spiraled into hours because there was a fundamental issue with the entire thing - like, someone’s property boundary might be so off that either they or Council are in big trouble. It’s way beyond my experience or pay grade, but I just can’t let a bit of good problem-solving go…

At least it wasn’t outrageous, I came home around 4:15pm and wrapped up around 8pm. Dinner, shower, bunch of tidying up, and now bed.

Also bloody hell, I think I do need a new chair, or at least reevaluate my seating height; my neck and back haven’t responded well to wfh today. Alright, NO overworking the next two days.

Absolutely glorious WFH today, I don’t want to return to it full time personally, but on days like today it’s perfect. No need to drag myself out of bed to brave the cold and a car that takes forever to get warm, get all the sun I need in my light filled study (with jazz on in the background to lift the mood even more) - even get to do a load of laundry while I’m at it. Knock off early, soak up more rays… cook dinner while it’s still light out… so happy I have this option.

Frosty morning but with the sun out and still air it’s honestly very pleasant right now. I’ve taken off my jumper and switched off the heater in my north facing study

They’re in pots, but trapped in an inconvenient part of my narrow balcony where bringing them in would mean moving half my plants around (and tbh the curry leaf plants are big fellas that I don’t really have space for indoors any more, I used to bring them in in past years).

If I was organised enough I’d have acquired a bit of geotextile or something to drape over the plants but I’m just going to hope they’re protected enough in their awkward corner with the brick wall and partial shelter. 🤞 I doubt anything will die, except maybe this chilli plant that’s been hanging in there for over 3 years.

I’ve accepted that my curry leaf plants and chillies are gonna look pretty shit tomorrow and not get any better until late September at least. I’m just thoroughly enjoying my warm living room, but better roll out of it and into bed soon before the bedroom oil heater goes off its timer.

Even with the slower pace there’s so much going on in each episode. It’s sort of a beautiful fleshed out epilogue to s2. I loved the Tina episode that way. Also, that long montage of all the service workers in s3e2, that made me feel so connected and proud to be part of a society for a moment

Excuse me, but I think you meant blah blahblahblah blah blah.

I’m partway through s3 e9 and I definitely found this season a lot more spaced out and chill than the past two seasons. It seems to be the reason it’s not so popular either, but I like it. More slow-burn character exposés and a great showcase of the acting talent, after the frenetic pace of the last two seasons. I’ve read that they filmed s4 at the same time so it tracks that they’re taking longer with plot developments this time around.

Such beautiful weather out today! I wish I wasn’t stuck in an office for most of it. Tonight is gonna be froooosty, I’m STOKED that I can roll outta bed late tomorrow. Have a meeting on campus at 2, plan is to try and finish all my work off by noon and quietly clock off after that. Would love to have a stroll round campus after if tomorrow’s as beautifully sunny as today.

Grateful I got WFH approved tomorrow to take the edge off everything I gotta do this week! And grateful to weekend me for meal prepping enough to last me til Thursday 👍

As with so many things in life, they don’t make em like they used to.

Before I came to Australia I had this impression that tax was Awful and Complicated and A Nightmare - primarily from American media - and this was before I was old enough to have needed to file a tax return.

Only to find out it’s a total breeze here.

Used to get a decent chunk back when they had the LMITO… last year’s tax return had me deadset depressed :(

This year I am claiming about 2k off my taxable income, that alongside not earning for about 3 months means hopefully I will get a reasonable amount of tax back.