navel gazing, as one does
Jan. 12th, 2025 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nansliceI still want to reply to comments to my last post but I also want to babble so that's gonna happen first lol.
Found out some unpleasant stuff about my immediate boss in that he's horribly transphobic and believes in very traditional roles for men and women. It really makes a lot of what he's said to me more suspect (the big one is that he called me a "rational" woman, like I'm one of the good ones and I'm now like ugh) and I'm also a lesbian in a relationship with a nonbinary person, and he apparently likes to go on hour long tangents about how trans people are abominations and how we need to live in 1000 family villages and weird shit like that. He's not actually said anything transphobic to me so I don't have anything to take to HR but I'm just. Very uncomfortable about it, hahaha.. So that's kind of a bummer and I'm heavily thinking about applying to a higher level position that's no longer under him. It would be a bump in pay, I would actually receive raises (I was hired in at the highest level pay for my position), and it'd eventually be a hybrid schedule. There's three months of training that goes into it, it's definitely a more specialized field and my workload would increase, but I would like to continue working in this (frankly, shitty) company and earning a pension, and I enjoy doing paperwork way more than I thought I would. :p I don't know what to think about this.
ANYWAYS, this is very belated but I wanted to share our Christmas tree! :D It is small and cute and the cats didn't manage to knock it down until well after Christmas (and, uh, the new year as well haha)
Tada~! I love it, it fit so nicely where we put it. <3
Onto the new year! I've managed to read a book! Already! The Twisted Ones. I'm pleased. I'd bought it at Half-Price Books on a whim (I'm only passable familiar with Ursula Vernon and not familiar at all with her work at T. Kingfisher) and liked it. I, personally, would have preferred it to be a bit scarier (and there were specific choices made to dial back the creepy) but that wasn't the story she was telling. Ultimately, pretty happy to have picked it up!
Also I've signed up for a Storygraph account. The talk of AI was a little alarming but I think it's the kind of AI that I don't actually mind; the kind that you feed information (in this case, books) and it gives you suggestions on what to read next. That's fine. I probably won't use it because I'm there for all the statistics. Also: challenges! I've signed up for a manga publisher reading challenge and a non-fiction reading challenge. These should overlap nicely with my general "reading 24 books a year" challenge. I don't really use GoodReads enough to miss any of its features and the community aspect isn't a priority for me. I like seeing what my friends are up to but I'm not so much interested in the groups or communities or anything like that. I love data and Storygraph looks like that's what it wants most to provide.
...it also helps that the AI felt very earnest in telling me what kind of fiction I like based on the one book I'd archived. ;3; It's trying its best, maybe.
The Warhammer bingo challenge continues apace! I've filled one square (paint a WH40k centerpiece) and am now working on another (painting WH40K skirmish unit - the unit I chose has 10 minis, whoops). I got some really nice advice from Steve the Warhammer Man on how to make the base more engaging. They're all Mechanicus minis so it very much looks like one big mama duck and his ten heavily armed babies. XD I will post pictures when they're finished!
Found out some unpleasant stuff about my immediate boss in that he's horribly transphobic and believes in very traditional roles for men and women. It really makes a lot of what he's said to me more suspect (the big one is that he called me a "rational" woman, like I'm one of the good ones and I'm now like ugh) and I'm also a lesbian in a relationship with a nonbinary person, and he apparently likes to go on hour long tangents about how trans people are abominations and how we need to live in 1000 family villages and weird shit like that. He's not actually said anything transphobic to me so I don't have anything to take to HR but I'm just. Very uncomfortable about it, hahaha.. So that's kind of a bummer and I'm heavily thinking about applying to a higher level position that's no longer under him. It would be a bump in pay, I would actually receive raises (I was hired in at the highest level pay for my position), and it'd eventually be a hybrid schedule. There's three months of training that goes into it, it's definitely a more specialized field and my workload would increase, but I would like to continue working in this (frankly, shitty) company and earning a pension, and I enjoy doing paperwork way more than I thought I would. :p I don't know what to think about this.
ANYWAYS, this is very belated but I wanted to share our Christmas tree! :D It is small and cute and the cats didn't manage to knock it down until well after Christmas (and, uh, the new year as well haha)
Tada~! I love it, it fit so nicely where we put it. <3
Onto the new year! I've managed to read a book! Already! The Twisted Ones. I'm pleased. I'd bought it at Half-Price Books on a whim (I'm only passable familiar with Ursula Vernon and not familiar at all with her work at T. Kingfisher) and liked it. I, personally, would have preferred it to be a bit scarier (and there were specific choices made to dial back the creepy) but that wasn't the story she was telling. Ultimately, pretty happy to have picked it up!
Also I've signed up for a Storygraph account. The talk of AI was a little alarming but I think it's the kind of AI that I don't actually mind; the kind that you feed information (in this case, books) and it gives you suggestions on what to read next. That's fine. I probably won't use it because I'm there for all the statistics. Also: challenges! I've signed up for a manga publisher reading challenge and a non-fiction reading challenge. These should overlap nicely with my general "reading 24 books a year" challenge. I don't really use GoodReads enough to miss any of its features and the community aspect isn't a priority for me. I like seeing what my friends are up to but I'm not so much interested in the groups or communities or anything like that. I love data and Storygraph looks like that's what it wants most to provide.
...it also helps that the AI felt very earnest in telling me what kind of fiction I like based on the one book I'd archived. ;3; It's trying its best, maybe.
The Warhammer bingo challenge continues apace! I've filled one square (paint a WH40k centerpiece) and am now working on another (painting WH40K skirmish unit - the unit I chose has 10 minis, whoops). I got some really nice advice from Steve the Warhammer Man on how to make the base more engaging. They're all Mechanicus minis so it very much looks like one big mama duck and his ten heavily armed babies. XD I will post pictures when they're finished!
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:44 am (UTC)The work stuff is yikes, good luck with it.
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Date: 2025-01-13 03:00 pm (UTC)Adorable tree!!!
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Date: 2025-01-14 03:16 am (UTC)That is an adorable Christmas tree, I'm glad it survived the holiday. ♥
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Date: 2025-01-14 02:14 pm (UTC)That book sounds good, I might give it a try! <3
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Date: 2025-01-15 12:38 am (UTC)Cute tree.
Tailored suggestions sound interesting.
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Date: 2025-01-16 08:20 pm (UTC)It's interesting to me because Storygraph feels so vibes-based, which is probably more suitable for book recommendations. I watched a fascinating video where a woman was going through which of the books she buys that she reads, versus letting the TBR grow, and she talked about how most of the BookTok recommendations she's bought were the ones she finished, and that was entirely based on vibes. Something to think about!
(I"m on Storygraph too, as Lassarina, which I'm sure you find astonishing.)