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Let’s not bury the lede: I quit my job. After 8 years of working there, Google feels like a very different company than the one I joined, one that aligns less and less with my values, and it was time to move on. It sucks, because my immediate team was a group of wonderful people who do great work; I will miss them, and the work I did, greatly. I haven’t had a vacation longer than 2 weeks since I was 18-ish, because I worked every summer and was too much of a naive workaholic to think I should take more than 1 week between jobs, so I am giving myself 6 months before I start something new this time around. It’s stressful to not have a plan, and I am bad at relaxing, but I have full confidence I can learn to overachieve at this as well.
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Didn’t I tell y’all I was worried SOMETHING was going to happen and I wasn’t going to get my vaccine? Here I am, 3 hours before my J+J stabbie stabby, reading about how my appointment is cancelled because it has an incredibly rare clotting side effect. One that is 10000 more rare than the usual clots women get threatened with for taking birth control and that absolutely nobody blinks an eye at anymore. This feels a lot like fabricated concern; we already don’t care about women getting blood clots. 1 in over 6 million? Fam, that’s better odds than getting in a car or not getting e-coli from Chipotle. Stop this.
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I’ve become very bad at telling stories, which is 100% a result of the panini and not being forced to socialize with people. I’ve noticed several times in recent weeks where I’m telling a story and can see the life leaving from people’s eyes. I am bored of what I am saying as I am saying it. I am not ready to move to the midwest yet; I must fix this.
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This is a very good tweet. Abolish the police already. Stop giving guns to insecure people who think a uniform gives them the right to kill others because of the colour of their skin. Stop giving guns to incompetent people who apparently aren’t trained enough to tell the difference between a gun and a taser, but are confident they have a right to use either. Stop giving guns to people.
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I am working on 2 linocuts. I should probably start working on more generative stuff, since JavaScript is my bread and butter and should somehow prove to my future employers I still got it. Or something. I am a deflated balloon after finding out my vaccine was cancelled and writing about yet another dead black man above so I don’t really know how to end this update on a good note.