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Queer, trans, ace, PhD, science education, occasional cross stitch and other crafts, pole dancer, lovingly married, she/her, views are my own
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Today is International Women's Day. I want to urge everyone to celebrate and examine the impact that women have in society and our power to effect positive change. A shoutout from me to the great women fighting the good fight - Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, US Senators Elissa Slotkin...

Just typical…Alfred got us all prepared, spent days ‘edging’ us off the coast, and then just fizzled into nothing

Shit is getting real!!

Trust a male named Alfred to make himself the centre of attention on Imternational Women’s Day 🤪

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After travelling for work over the last two days, it’s now time to start preparing ahead of tropical cyclone Alfred that’s about to hit 😬

I think I'm going to start calling my anxiety/depression 'Donald' *It always lies *It will ultimately lose *It absolutely hates being referred to by its first name only *It has tiny hands

Literally have no words at this point

So apparently 12 hours sleep wasn’t enough last night and I needed to also have an additional nap, and basically do nothing all day on the only ‘weekend’ day I get this week 😕 Getting the duct tape and string to hold me together for the new week about to begin

I barely stepped foot in the office today and everyone comes rushing to me to complain about the all the problems other people are creating. I really feel like I just need to nope out of today as soon as possible…

Current rewatch of Babylon 5 keeps hitting harder and harder with every episode. Currently part way through season three and the earth alliance president just issued an executive order to dissolve the senate… 😕

Another Sunday lost where I’m travelling for work ahead of another workshop tomorrow 😢

My body is definitely letting me know about protest after learning a new pole move yesterday 🤪 So much pain, so many bruises…and I still am excited for more 😁

Another day presenting workshops to teachers…so of course I had to get coffee from a place called jhambar first 🤪

Start of the day vs not long after running a full day workshop with teachers and waiting for the flight home… And I’m doing it all again in a couple of days Looking forward to a good nights sleep 😴

First work trip for the year - will be at various places across Queensland over the next month So I figure it’s as good an opportunity to start a new photo series called ‘chairs of Queensland hotel rooms’ 😉

I’m honestly surprised it took this long 😢 CW: transphobia

I thought satire was meant to mock the reality of a situation, not necessarily be the actual truth!

Sigh*- missing another amazing pole dance class tonight that my brain desperately needs so I don’t make my current bodily injury worse than it already is 😢

Hmmm seems the physical manifestations of my anxieties is starting to kick in

After five years of me trying to get my my team of 8 ppl onto using the most basic of project management tools, today I got to launch access to one for my entire branch (50 plus people managing easily over 300 projects) And the best part - everyone was super eager to start using it!!

Ran a full-day workshop today for teachers - the first time I've done so in about a year. To think I used to do this sort of thing (perform in front of people) everyday for 8 years as a teacher I am seriously exhausted and clearly in need of rebuilding my stamina for these things 😜

Ugh - youngest sister just sent me a friend request on a zuck-site (I’m non-contact with my family). A quick look through her profile reminds me of how much they are not my family anymore (or rather they never felt like family in the first place) Thanks but no thanks…delete!

Another weekend gone and another job application sent off... Now to see if this 'needle in a haystack' gets noticed

I think I’ll try descriiiiiiibing graaaavityyyyyy

Good morning lovely people. Imposter syndrome may be kicking my arse right now but at last I can wfh today so that’s something I guess. Currently searching for a new job to escape a toxic work environment, however the leap is challenging when it feels like nothing you do is good enough 😢

Friend at work brought me in a belated b'day present this morning and folks I was almost in tears at the thoughtfulness behind it (and her accompanying thought process 😂) Little did she realise just how much this meant to me after weeks of feeling lost and adrift.