Oh forgot to mention- my university is on strike right now so ….
I completely support the union, fwiw but I have no idea how this semester will end
https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/02/28/day-3-of-strike-at-york-university/

Life update;
-Got an offer from the university to do my Masters, so need to mull over whether to accept
-was sick with a cold last week
-trying to work more hours to make up the $
-pretty sure I’m bi now- and am chatting to a woman I met on the internet for the purposes of maybe meeting one day and is trying to negotiate an ethical non-monogamous thing with husband (who might be throwing their life under a bus? This gal!)
Apart from that, same ole same ole

It’s been so cloudy lately- definitely hard on mood. So wonderful to have a sunny 🌞 day, and now (after a few hours of studying and writing) hanging outside with an adult beverage looking at #Jupiter.
It’s been too long.
Now if only my neighbours would turn off their outdoor lights….

When I was a kid in #Australia , Jan 26 was Australia Day. Now, I know more about the impact of colonialism and colonization to the Indigenous peoples, it is #InvasionDay https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thousands-protest-australia-day-holiday-with-invasion-day-rallies-2024-01-26/

I don’t know
Why I come here
When I feel like shit
It is probably because those are times
I crave human interaction,
When I have none
or no one to talk to
When I have a 💔
And no one else can feel it
But here I can at least share it

Anyone else get emotional just *thinking* about the #StarTrek TNG episode “The Inner Light”? Just me? 🖖✨🥺

At the clinics where I work as an RMT, I listen to the receptionist telling people over and over again that we’re fully booked until next year, and insist on going on a waiting list even though there are 20 people ahead of them. They don’t want to book next week.
Tis the season of the benefit-burners ….

Letting go is not easy.
I keep seeing images of someone who was verbally abusive and bullying to me hanging out with “friends” who obviously are ok with her. I didn’t want anyone to be ostracised but still didn’t expect me to feel so triggered months after the event.
#firstworldproblem

#Jupiter and the #Moon through the coniferous trees

Quiet walk through the outdoor logging exhibit trail in Algonquin Park today; enjoying being outdoors.
We had the place to ourselves
But it’s grey and drizzly, so time to get a hot drink

Also, saw this little dude on the frozen lake earlier - no idea how it got there
#winter #spider

Astrospouse is flipping between “London has Fallen” and “White Christmas” on tv 😆. Yin and Yang.
Merry Christmas if you have the privilege to celebrate.
Although it’s a green #Christmas for many in this part of the world, we’re visiting a place with some snow and a frozen lake.
☮️

Partner and I
Got out of dodge
To spend Christmas by ourselves
Which is our new tradition
Of getting away from everyone for a few days of R&R
He likes it.
But
I also want to be around people, and I miss my own family on the other side of the planet
And I cannot stop thinking of HER.
We have no kids
I have no cousins, etc (both parents only children).
So, shout out to all the lonely people out there; I see you.
Holidays can be hard for those with broken or messy kinship situations

The occulted Moon
Sits behind incoming cloud
Hiding in plain sight
(A #haiku for you)
~
I understand
Why some of our ancestors bought greenery inside this time of year in this hemisphere
It is so …. grey
And I look for colours.

Come down to the lake, which looks frozen, but not enough to walk on, to listen to its cracks, groans and other conversations.