With a Gingko on my knee
May. 5th, 2025 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newredshoesSaid Gingko has been majorly shedding, in ways that surprise me and that I apparently cannot keep up with, so I have made the hilarious-to-me decision to buy a Roomba. The website is having a Mother's Day sale, and Rakuten is adding on a 15% cashback feature today, apparently, so I got a $470 robot vacuum for, effectively, $255. Further big problems: I genuinely need headphones I like and which I can use to take calls, and Bose is one of those brands that's in on the Rakuten thing, making these babies a mere $212 instead of $349.
Can I justify it? I genuinely have no idea what my work situation will look like a month from now. My contract has been extended for May, but the company is a mess right now from reorganizations and buyouts, plus there's all this from the outside. I've applied for a few jobs, but at least one of the organizations where I submitted a resume just announced a bunch of layoffs, and I haven't heard anything from the job I really cared about, to which I applied a few weeks ago. I don't know how or whether to reach out to freelance contacts, because there have been some real mixed messages about how much my present gig wants to keep me on (everyone who works with me says I'm desperately needed! everyone with any power of the purse is stonewalling me!).
Another problem: I would love to get back to writing stuff for Excited Mark! ( Why is this an issue? It shouldn't be an issue, and yet. )
I still have a lot of chewing to do, I guess, and Gingko has hopped off the couch and is tragically wimpering to go out again, so. I'll leave it there. But I do need to write more about other things, like why Deng Wei is taking over all my mental real estate and why you should watch Love of the Divine Tree. (I have thought about doing episode thoughts and writeups as premium ~content! But I have to have the time for it. Again: love 2 be in limbo for literally everything.) Okay, the girl waits for no one, after a certain point!
Can I justify it? I genuinely have no idea what my work situation will look like a month from now. My contract has been extended for May, but the company is a mess right now from reorganizations and buyouts, plus there's all this from the outside. I've applied for a few jobs, but at least one of the organizations where I submitted a resume just announced a bunch of layoffs, and I haven't heard anything from the job I really cared about, to which I applied a few weeks ago. I don't know how or whether to reach out to freelance contacts, because there have been some real mixed messages about how much my present gig wants to keep me on (everyone who works with me says I'm desperately needed! everyone with any power of the purse is stonewalling me!).
Another problem: I would love to get back to writing stuff for Excited Mark! ( Why is this an issue? It shouldn't be an issue, and yet. )
I still have a lot of chewing to do, I guess, and Gingko has hopped off the couch and is tragically wimpering to go out again, so. I'll leave it there. But I do need to write more about other things, like why Deng Wei is taking over all my mental real estate and why you should watch Love of the Divine Tree. (I have thought about doing episode thoughts and writeups as premium ~content! But I have to have the time for it. Again: love 2 be in limbo for literally everything.) Okay, the girl waits for no one, after a certain point!