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Oh, that’s… delightfully specific, I suppose. I have no doubt that you’ll get your third excellent review next year. Go go go! We have semi decent food, actually, just quite small portions. Which makes sense because you don’t really want to stress your body with overeating after surgery. Well the average person doesn’t, I totally do. Ehh, it will it should, but it’s certainly a long term ride. Just make sure you take care of yourself (and go to annual screenings). But if you enjoy your job and your dissertation then it’s a good kind of overworked at least.

Holy F’ing shit. Thank goodness we don’t have curtains. We don’t even have visiting hours past 7pm. Boy oh boy. Were there no nurses on that ward? I’m so sorry about this absolutely awful way to spend the first night. I had my surgery in the morning, and I was out by 10am but wasn’t quite lucid until around 1-2pm. The night was shitty, I barely slept. The bandage felt like a torture device, but since they removed it, I just feel numb and tingly in my armpit. That’s supposed to improve with physiotherapy. And it hurts to swallow. But I don’t give a shit about any of that, what bothers me is the lifestyle change. I’ve been doing everything, literally everything for myself on my own for 12 years and now I’ll need people to change my f’ing bedsheets for me for 3 months. What the f’ing f , I’m so pissed. If there was anything I liked and valued in myself it was my (slightly pathological) hyper independence. And bamm, I’ll never build a f’ing ikea cabinet in my life and I’ll not put up my own wallpaper in the summer. I cried over this three times already. None of you wanted to know that, sorry. I’m just so pissed. I miss the boredom. ETA: so I don’t just b* about stuff, I’ll also tell you that my former roommate (from the previous surgery appointment) has been texting me nonstop. She’s such a darling, she was The Dream Roommate. My current roommate is very nice too, we just don’t have the same chemistry. But I was super lucky both times.

and it does indeed. Yay congratulations! Does it come with some extra benefit or is it just for feedback about how you’re doing your job? The weather has been weird around here. End of last week we had -10C at night a -4-5 by day. Then it flipped and we had +10C on Sunday. I haven’t been outside since Monday morning but it looks pretty sunny. I suppose I don’t have much to contribute these days unless anybody wants me to live report my medical adventures, but that might be quite creepy and definitely super boring for y’all. Beside being super bored, I’m also super hungry and I could eat anything and everything all day long. how are you all?

I’m sooooooooooooo bored. I brought a silly amount of entertainment with me so it’s rather obnoxious to be bored. I sent work emails at 4am because I couldn’t sleep. Then we had a vitals check. Then I napped. Then we had morning visits. Then we had bandages removed. Then I changed and attempted to brush my teeth left-handed. Then we had a tiny but decent breakfast. Then we had a shitty vending machine coffee with my roommate. And it’s still only 9:30. I. Am. So. Bored. ( I’m sorry I bored you too with my boring and never ending morning, but I’m too bored)

It’s freezing with 0C now but at least there’s sunshine. We stared out at -5C at half past 8, but we are getting there. May hit above zero for a couple hours. I suppose this is called proper winter, we just forgot about it.

Well it never happened after all. Got a new appointment two weeks from now. This has got to be lowest point in this saga, or at least a tie with the impromptu biopsy. I’m already home. And I don’t know where the f the tranquilizers went in me because I’m a total mess.

I checked into the hospital today for my surgery, I’m supposed to be going home on Thursday. Today is just random waiting around for tests and not knowing what the heck is happening. But no complaints I just want these nice overworked people to fix me. Though some downtime would be welcome because I didn’t bring all my magazines to sit in my bag while I’m jittering in a different building. I suppose caffeine wasn’t a good idea either. How are you doing?

Big congrats and good luck with the dissertation!

Incredibly, if you come down from the mountains, we have 8-10C over here. Good luck, you’ll do a great job! And the deadline is always a great source of motivation. Thank you. <3

Yay for the snow!!! Can’t say I’ve seen snow this season. Not on the ground anyway, and for longer than ten minutes. Sounds like a fun weekend! Does the gentleman have a big family? And how is your conference talk coming along? It’s gonna be for the upcoming week, if I’m getting the timeline right, correct? Good luck with it! Oh yeah it’s been even emptier than last year. My life has kinda been taken over by a health issue, so not much else has been going on. Although, as my therapist wisely said, it is and should be just one part of life, not all of it. So what else can I share? I had some lovely meetups with friends, brunches and lunches with family and watched a lot of movies and had some cuddles with our doggies. One of the fun things about being a woman is that I get to reframe the no-fun things as a shopping opportunity and find a little superficial joy in them, so there was a bit of that as well. Anyway, the real lesson to take away is that screenings are in fact important to get every year and that when you stress about something, always ask yourself if it matters enough to get sick over. The answer is nearly always that it doesn’t.

Thanks. Ehh they were okay. Reality not so much. How is the new year treating you so far?

Happy New Year, thread!

Lol lol lol. Our national covid website disappeared I can’t even. No more stats, no more sewer samples, no more nothing. Well, I suppose the time had to come but still, that’s a choice. I don’t suppose we will be doing further boosters either. Man, I feel sorry for kids in history class. Though the whole thing will probably be a paragraph.

Pffff, so by the age of 30, life has officially fucked me enough that I’ve gradually grown to despise Christmas with every aspect imaginable. I think I lasted a good while, because I maintained a fondness for this holiday throughout an entire decade of mostly shitty Christmames. But I’m exhausted and I can’t be bothered to make an effort to find affection for this time of the year anymore. Next year I’ll skip Christmas and either travel somewhere or work through it as a regular week to see where it lands me, because wasting 10 paid holiday days on this just isn’t worth it anymore. #TeamOctober

@Buckwheat not yet but I’m not giving up on it. Thanks and happy belated birthday to you too! Between the grading and new tests, do make sure to get some rest and have some holiday fun too! happy holidays everybody!

Ah I see, bit different over here. and boldog somethingelsesomethingelse means merry Christmas or happy new year. Versatile word for all occasions! I ended up postponing my birthday shenanigans. I just don’t want to have to get ready at someone else’s house or take a backpack with me or get home to a freezing cold flat at night on my birthday. So we will get back to those once I have the comfort of heating and hot water at home for a shower and dressing up and all that shit one does for one’s birthday. I kept the brunch and I’m debating if I should allow myself a little birthday present and finally get a new hair straightener/new headphones.

Well it may take us a third year to finish it off then

I agree from the bottom of my heart.

Yeah, same. I bought a bottle of gin and apple juice but ended up drinking GnT anyway. Wasn’t too bad, but I suppose I’ve been eating well enough in the past couple weeks to balance it out. Also alkaline water is magic.

Well, you are on the right track, because the internet says that gin, tequila and non-grain vodka has the least acidity in this order. (The whiskey was my mistake it says tequila, I just misremembered) I think the general rule of thumb is to stay away from anything that’s sugary, fizzy or has to do with grapes, aka cocktails, sweet liqueurs, wine, champagne, Prosecco, etc. Mulled wine is the death of me. I love it but it destroys me for a week every single time. Especially when you follow up with 5 fizzy cocktails. Winter weddings…

What alcoholic beverage is least triggering for reflux? Siri and google say it’s gin and whiskey. Any contradictory opinions?

Oh how interesting! Your spring holidays are linked to the public holidays and not Easter then? We usually get them with Easter, which is Good Friday and Easter Monday off, plus an extra two or three days for schools. Uhh always annoying. But yay for the nice and productive week! no, sorry, that’s “belated” x Autocorrect which switched back to Hungarian. (Belát means see or admit and és means and. Fun fact.) No getting drunk, yes goose meals. Oh that doesn’t sound fun. Hope you get through them quickly and enjoy the weekend too!

I was actually okay for the wedding, a bit more tired but that’s all. The weather was nasty but it was an indoor event luckily. They had a hot chocolate and mulled wine stand for arriving guests. That was a nice touch Yeah they absolutely should. This weird moving around the holidays we have here sounds pretty unreasonable to me. There’s a good reason autumn and Easter holidays exist, students need that break in the middle of the term. Hope you were able to make some progress on your project and had a nice, not too busy week and lovely weekend. I visited my mum to make up for cancelling our plans when I was ill the week before. We had a beautiful autumn day in an arboretum and had a belát és St Martin’s Day lunch yesterday, then some dog walking today morning before I returned to my cold and hot-waterless abode in the city.

It’s actually a lot better now, or I’m just distracted because I got ill. I have 48 hours to get well for a wedding on Saturday. Timing is just chefs kiss….. good luck with the jab! We completely abandoned those as well. Might try to persuade my mum to get one, I’m sure everybody else is hopeless. I mean… is it better to sit in 18C in coats with exhausted kids who haven’t had more than a weekend off since summer? Besides, what about the digital age? :/ then again I’m not a teacher so who knows. yeah not much of a choice at this point because I caught whatever the chocolate workshop lady had on Saturday. (Not covid if two negative lateral flow tests can be trusted) At least another person from the bachelorette crew is ill too, fingers crossed this thing passes through us quickly. I just love when people go to work while ill.

I think I pulled my shoulder last night. I guess this happens when you haven’t done any bodily movement in months, decide to stretch yoga the shit out of your aching muscles and are nearing 30.