I’m still here. Last week there was a wedding (not mine, but still took all the spare time), this week I’m starting the holiday research project. Hopefully back on schedule with novel writing next week.
We got him a 1-up! (Gotta catch up to the cats!) 
#writing goals not meet last week, so I added in a two lunchtime sessions to catch up this week.
(My lunchtime writing is very bad, hopeful I can mold it into something useful later)
Last night we saw HEALTH at the Triffid in Newstead. Great band, great venue. First show since pre-COVID times
Suitably stern
#Book haul in the city today. Should cover the next couple of months 
Finally got around to finishing The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It’s very ponderable, but, man, I’m gonna go give my doggos a hug #books 
It sounds delicious, at any rate
Weekly #writing #wip update, about 2400 words added to the current project.
Missed a couple of weeks of novel writing prior to that because my masters was kicking my arse, as per usual.
(I can’t explain to myself why I persist studying maths when it is so very hard and there’s so many other things I could be doing and so many other people that seem to *get it* in about the third of the time it takes me. My inner intellectual masochist, I hate them this month.)
Today, I’m doing feedback on academic journal submissions for folk, and I know how to review study designs, but not the writing itself. I imagine clarity and inciting interest is the goal, that I can talk about at least.
It amuses me I’ve ended up with a creative critique group and an academic one, but the creative one is a lot more formal and structured.
To be fair, I do put some Frankensteinian coconut almond blend in my home coffee because it’s super low carb and I was cultivating my macros
What is this madness? (I’m poor and it was on special for the cheapest $/kg) #coffee 
What kind of booze is this, it sound delicious! I thought wine was just grapes
He graduated #dog school last night. This morning he peed on the carpet 😭 
I can kill people with a typo 😬
Maybe you take those 5 years and see some of the world, see things a completely different way. No where is perfect but everywhere is different. You can work hospitality just about anywhere if you decide you want grind out some shifts in the midst of it. My country, heaps of people in their 20s and older travel and work overseas for years. If you don’t like it you can always come home and not be too far from where you started.
But…. weren’t you getting a kitty?