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coach for early career cg artists | lawyer | remote worker | fierce advocate, strategist, and friend | former nun | wild optimist who still knows it's not getting better | covid cautious | cat obsessed
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Spent over a hundo on some shoes before my work unexpectedly laid me off, effective immediately. Now that I have no income, I'm sad about these shoes that I had thought "I can afford this treat" The brand is the same as shoes I bought with my 1st ever paycheck as a teenager. Feels fated.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I was laid off today. "Restructuring." The DOGE vibes that grew at my company over the past months are so gross. If you are not great at business, that leads to layoffs. And because you are bad at business, you let the wrong people go because you don't understand value.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm going to be volunteering at my public library! Love that there are so many better things to do than giving that bloated ignorance factory attention while he rattles and ruins.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

submitted 26 days ago • 240 comments

I moved away from the south because I thought I would have a better chance at a career as a woman. Even tho I shifted my goals to be able to work remotely, I have met and am surrounded by smart people who are changing the world. Some of my lawyer friends have ≈

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

In these stupid times, publicly asking cruel, arrogant people to be kind and merciful is an act of extreme bravery. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde on her Inauguration Day sermon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMR0...

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Last night the abandoned house across the street from me burned down. The noise and brightness woke me up around 3am. It was nothing like the LA fires, I am sure, but the intensity of the destruction still has me off balance today. I don't understand the brains of people who deliberately set fires.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Going on day four of a slight headache in the background of everything. No other symptoms that I recognize. It's been rainy and I haven't been moving my body enough in the past few weeks. Surely that's not the reason.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Just got Friday to plow through. Affirmation Coyote knows you can do it.

submitted 115 days ago • 3 comments

I had one relative on a ventilator for 17 days before they died of covid. Even with vaccines, I am bewildered that the world has moved on in a way that harms so many. I reorganized my whole life. took a remote job, stopped attending church, ended service on 2 nonprofit boards, and continue to mask

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

Can I just have a heated blanket on my lap nonstop for the next few months, or are there reasons to not do that? It seems cozy, but medically maybe it is bad or something?

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

I managed to stay off my computers for four entire days of a five day stretch off from work. Wow. I was on my phone, but I didn't touch work communications. But the Sunday scaries did hit and I spent a lot of time dealing with the tyranny of the inbox, so Monday morning doesn't hit so hard.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know how people manage to have like 10 cats. I have two and I feel like it is impossible to give them enough attention. I love them so much it's ... I am one of the childless cat ladies you were warned about, I guess. Used to be a dog person and just in the past two years I discovered cats

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Some 10th graders in Canada who are learning about careers are emailing me to ask questions about how to be a game designer. I LOVE THIS!! The chance to be encouraging and supportive of a young person with the courage to send an email?? Adorable stuff. Gosh I hope they are as excited as I am, LOL

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

There is a movie being filmed on location about 3 blocks from my house. "A 90's coming of age" is what one of the grip-type guys told me as I passed by and asked about it. I immediately knew which house they were using. there is one house on that street that is so funky and perfect for a movie

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Just had a great meeting with the c-suite of the company I work for - I told my boss I was feeling lonely and unappreciated and his response was to ask me to present a "year in review" about my work to his bosses. He said he wanted them to see how good and competent I am and appreciate my work. WOW

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

a neighbor 4 houses down from me keeps saying "beautiful red hair!" every time I walk past his house. First 2 times I said thank you, from then on I said nothing. Today I said nothing and he yelled at me. Like, what do I owe this person? I guess I am never walking that way again. 😥

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

"The greatest act of rebellion and love is to press on, for those that have come before and those that will come after, press on."

submitted 144 days ago • 121 comments

At best, I think I am able to handle this moment. At worst, I am trying to exert control over wild thoughts as I go back and forth from fits of temper and anxiety attacks. And a very unsettled stomach. When the pandemic hit, I lost 30 pounds. Is this gonna happen again? And, it's a normal work day

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Its kind of wild that people seem to think this election going to Dems will cure our fascism problem and that their racist MAGA neighbors are just going to disappear be sent to Guantanamo or something You don’t have to like or forgive them but we are going to have to keep CONTENDING with them.

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment