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Sitting here with my cat, trying to get ready for bed. I’m tired of Chronic flare ups and I would love to sleep, but I’m afraid it will keep me up. So we sit… me on my mobile and her taking a nap. We get each other, we’re both chronic illness baddies.

I asked my cat if she’s cute, and she flopped over. It’s precious!

Embarrassed to say that I want to read instead of studying. I’m revisiting old material so I can run new characters…

Happiness is definitely writing a short vignettes about your D&D character making full use of a full kitchen and the food stores just because they could. This one is such fun!

Y’know not much makes me feel old, however, right now… I feel old because I have computer glasses.

@vivziepop.bsky.social when does Blitz get his Biscuit Queen or Stapler? I mean he has 3 of the 4 things he wanted in the The Circus. Consider this my petition to have him get his real horses!!

I had my Inverts lab exam. I feel meh about it. Not like I didn’t know what was asked, I just have been feeling meh lately. So I ordered pizza for our quarterly order out…

At SOME POINT The Helluva Boss fandom is going to recognize that NOT EVERYONE CAN BE UP AT 3AM to watch the show! Please for the LOVE OF BEE be mindful of those of us who are waiting to be able to be awake and able to comprehend it! Oh my Lucifer! I want to make a temporary mute button!

Just the other day at my little intersection slip lane my partner and I were berated by a driver because we (get this) wanted her to stop her car so we could cross the slip lane. The actual audacity of us wanting her to stop her car’s wheels like it states in the drivers handbook so we could cross.

Why did the song “Dirty Bird” help me write a psychological horror scene for my pixie character? Because somehow it worked and I’m both a bit weirded out and amazed that it works. It may need some fleshing out to be fair, but wow!

Spent a good portion of the night last night trying to quickly write down a small post session chapter for my characters (and ones I kind of hear echos of). I wrote (well typed) 6 pages! It’s kind of like trying to catch a train of thought that will disappear in 30 seconds if I don’t.

I really suck at watching soaps, okay? Gawd! And what is it with me and the books I read as a teen? First I’m revisiting Krynn and now Shannara?? Am I having a midlife crisis or something? LOL!

helluva boss episode 3: reaction only, no spoilers: 1) aww, 2) awww, 3) awwww! (YUS!!!) 4) aww! 5) oh… 6) oh no, 7) awww… Again, no spoilers… just how I was through reacting through the episode to different parts of the episode.

Learning more about inverts isn’t necessarily making me feel less nervous around them anymore than learning about snakes. I’m fascinated in a “look but don’t touch” kind of way. And not because they’re scary or icky, just more like “these guys are fragile, be ever gentle”.

I am feeling tired and just burnt again, and it doesn’t help that I’ve got my flu and COVID vaccines on board. We’re entering year 7 of this thing, so I need to keep pushing forward.

Some of the cutest things I saw today included a nudibrach and a crab doing a sleepy stretch

I dissected a snail, and enjoyed it! And it was oddly interesting!

It’s the Canadian “Thanksgiving”, so what’s this day without some cheese and turkey!

Well, that dream was kind of a bummer. About going back home with a reunion and being told “oh, what you did, that’s nice, but you didn’t have kids so it’s worthless”. Oh please, I learned that I’m pretty darn smart and contributed to science. (Well, I did so mush!)

Hair is finally taken off! I feel more comfortable and more myself. I still have nightmares about having my hair feminized as a teen. I did have long curly hair at 15, but it drove me crazy at the length.

I am having a low spoon day. Everything is on my case. Ms Cat threw up on my school bag… I took a nap.

Nothing feels as good as having the shower head on the highest pressure on the hottest water setting running on a painful area.

@vivziepop.bsky.social why is Helluva Boss’ season 3 music just so good! Rope reminds me of the sounds of 1983/1984. Very nice!

I’m exhausted today. I feel as flat as the earthworm was after the dissection. It also served as a good reminder that I don’t actually mind invertebrates if I know they’re there. I still have several issues with many of the arthropods especially those in the arachnid and hexopods…

Was it immature of me to name my dissection earthworm Jin? I feel so old today, and that sealed it.

You know it’s a good TTRPG session when you really can feel the character vibrations as you set their stage. And did my little Scary Fairy get to play today. And now I can’t sleep because I have more for her story. I mean, I want to sleep, I just have to write for her.

Day 2: all 4 meds administered today on my cat. Tomorrow only 3. She is doing better now. Angry still that this couldn’t have started on Sunday last, but you can’t do much about it…

Groceries are done, and tuition paid. Next pay, I’m getting new runners. I know, how extravagant, but mine are done, and I’m putting it off until next pay because the Ms Cat’s vet bills…

I feel so guilty, my cat was grooming my foot (accidentally, because he was grooming his own paw) and I had to pull away because it was tickling and I couldn’t stop it.

Sobbing softly as my Citrine is made one with the Helminth… that was my favourite frame, the one that saw me from the beginning of the game until today. My new Citrine Prime will be built by the weekend. But it still hurts to lose her.

Tomorrow, the coolest part of the day is lab and we get to start on bilateria. And I am so hoping we start with lophotrochozoa, because apart from corals, these are my favorite fossils to find. And, I know that most cephalopods no longer have an outer shell, I just love that they did.

I’m sitting here, my brain has clocked out for the day, and I now applying Hellaverse quotes to my cat. Why does it have to be Val’s line about Florida for my Mr Cat?

Well that was a weekend that tripped and fell into the dumpster. Between the rain, waking up to a sick cat and just general profanity, I need another weekend, stat.

Going back to Krynn tonight. I’m trying to figure out how best to draw Tas (he’s my favourite character) and Fizban and the Majere brothers. I have an unhealthy love of Rastlin, to the point that in Idle Champions, I’m wanting to get his black robes… nothing says fun like a time traveling wizard.

The ruminations are not stopping. So I’m adding on a comfort movie, and maybe I can focus… an old Canadian film. I can handle this.

Ever get so mad you just have a soundtrack? I do and it starts with “Brighter”…

When getting to sleep is disturbed by the introduction of your favourite character in the book you’re reading and your inspiration hits. I spent about half an hour writing my oldest TTRPG character’s adventure start… did I fall asleep after 1 am? Yeah…

Biology is complex and amazing and while I do love rocks (a lot) I just found where the cross over is… and I feel engaged and kind of this strange feeling of being in the right place. Like yeah, I could see myself doing this as an adult, which I am at late 40s, but yeah!

Nothing amuses me more than watching a sea anemone “run away” from a predator. It is the funniest thing and it cracks me up. It’s like how animated mushrooms move! It’s cute but also funny, but also something I didn’t know happened.