I’m gonna start recommending cats to everyone I see

Tiny ruckus, just standing there and barking at me. I’ve given him food, pats, toys, play time, ice cubs. What do you want, doggie???

This prick is no help at all. This household is now team Chihuahua and anti-Pomerania (loud dumb, dumb dogs)

#dogsofnostr helping with maths homework

Whenever I’m supposed to be concentrating on writing I’m fantasizing about art supplies and the images I’m going to make. Whenever I’m painting I just want to get back to writing. (The hospital jobs only gives me nightmares :D)

#wip #writing weekly update. 1200 words on current manuscript completed and 800 on the barebones of an outline for ‘Damp’, the next project, to give to my critique group for a brainstorming session, they are the best. So, met the 2k weekly goal, but it doesn’t feel good not spending the whole 2k on the main manuscript, so I’ll update the goal to make sure I’m focusing on getting the current story done. The next idea is always more fun to work on, damn it.

If you decide to get your degree in stats or maths can I recommend doing it all at once and not piecemeal over five years

Week 2 of returning to maths and I’m already cracking opening Probability for Dummies. Concepts easy, notation forgettable

He’s such a good boy otherwise, but he had a couple of big off-leash dogs run up to us and scare him, so now he’s alway hyper alert when we go for a walk. Every-time we make a bit of progress they’ll be like a surprise dog in the lift or something that takes us back to square 1.

Remedial class at dog school today because this one is 2.2kg of pure menace on leash! #dogsofnostr

So today I’m going to hit the midpoint of current WIP. I’ve missed sex-at-60, which is a problem because I outlined around romance beats, and my immortal town planner hasn’t shown any of his superpowers (town-planning?) Today I fix!

Think I’m going to make Friday’s and Saturday’s my main personal project time, which at the moment is #writing

Not that I’m hating on Macquarie, it’s a pure joy to have a semester off two-factoring into eleventy-billion systems via a dodge 3rd party app, for example. 💜📚

Another university, another mandatory academic integrity unit. (My masters is delivered by consortium, I have done every integrity unit in Australia, or feels like). Macquarie’s doesn’t even cover AI cheating.

Further adventures in foodcourt #keto - kombucha from Coles, HJ triple whopper with cheese, no bread (should have skipped their sketchy mayo and sauce, Australia condiments are high-carb)

(This is mostly because I’m seeing my dad for the first time since pre-COVID next week, and I don’t like him to worry)

Only working 3 days at the hospital gig this week, so happy end-of-week to me. Getting my hair did by a trained professional tomorrow so I look less like a crazy homeless woman.

Three books into my le Carré re-read, and god damn, ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’ was such a huge level up. Brutal.

No photos from the meetup, but here’s one from the car ride. Happy Sunday, #dogsofnostr - the boys aren’t mad keen on their new booster seat