Perth Thread

[grue]

How are all five of you guys doing?

I lost my job because of Covid-19 not allowing me to do fieldwork, so I've been using this opportunity to focus on funding applications while taking odd editing gigs. I should jump back on research sooon but it's all very vague.

It's been weird because Covid took my earnings but my workload has actually increased. Or has tried to increased, rather. People just assume others have free time because of the damn quarantine. Which sure, I do, but it's "free" time for me, it's not "free" for you, guy. Pay me or move on.

I've also gone back to trying to quit smoking. I held for two months but had a cig recently. The anxiety was killing me, and now it's been just kinda there so I can manage it.

[K-Man]

It's been a fuckin free-for-all of a year, and it isn't even June yet. Just when I think I've got this Life™ thing figured out, the gods say "Hey motherfucker, how about a pandemic? Yeah, suck on that curveball, nerd."

I spent 2 months in self-isolation (props to my phone for wanting to correct that to "self-immolation") and that in itself was a journey. It started out with a sudden stop to all income and being forced to be alone with my thoughts weeks at a time, which was horrifying at first but then led to coming to terms with a lot in my life. By mid-April, I was getting that sweet sweet PUA and that extra $600 a week certainly rented my happiness for a while. I almost got too used to being paid to sit home and fuckoff everyday by the end of last month... after a couple decades of working bullshit jobs with no paid vacations, this was finally my chance to slow down and heal. I took advantage of that and loved it. Amongst all my binge-watching, I streamed every episode of Community, which I've never stopped to watch before. Absolutely loved it, what a wonderful show.

I returned to work about a week ago, now I'm lovin that too. This is the golden age of food delivery, been averaging $40/hour some days just doing UberEats. Social distancing is like my favorite thing ever, people standing the fuck away from me and wearing a mask so I don't have to breathe their nasty germs is GREAT. I hope this never goes out of style. Watching the economy crumble and conservatives have meltdowns has been a secret joy too. It's like living through a soft apocalypse, and I am totally here for it.

Coronavirus: 9/10, looking forward to the imminent 2nd shutdown :thup:

[grue]

Holy dick that UberEats cash is real. I can't unstick myself from my computer, it's been my greatest bane. I was joking that the quarantine has been for me just regular life without getting paid, but it's actually a little worse because of the expctations I mentioned.

I'm also loving the social distancing. Having a valid excuse to not touch or be touched has been great. I'm also learning a lot of new skills to pass the time - I'm full on working on my creepy van to convert it so I'll be able to sleep in it come summer. I plan on travelling a bit to benefit my mental health. Not my physical health because there will be hard drinking involved, but one out of two isn't bad.

[Zomber_Jesus]

So how is everyone. I simultaneously started at a new job, a computer science degree and am getting married in a few days so remembering to breathe is a challenge. Angy at my useless government for letting covid explode back to where it was in April. Yeah.

[grue]

what the fuck do you mean "married" why is everyone else having sex except me

[K-Man]

im about enter my third year of celibacy, if its any consolation

Congrats on the marrying thing zj, everything else you said was gay and i hate it

[grue]

ok no joke you ooze sex so I honestly don't believe you or maybe the whole world has gone mad

staying on topic: I'm doing ethnography with fishermen

[Zomber_Jesus]

Jokes on you my partner is asexual

[Zomber_Jesus]

Can you please ask the fishermen whether the old man and the sea is realistic

[fat lesbian]

my tummy hurts

[K-Man]

Yo I'm doing ok! All things considered, this has been an excellent year in my life and for the first time ever, I really feel like I have my shit together.

Got me a small studio apt on the Jersey shore, tiny but no roommates! Great to have a sanctuary for my thoughts, it's been several years since I've had peace like this. Been clean from all opiods, no alcohol or drugs other than cannabis, this is a K-Man that hasn't existed since the 90's. Working two part-time jobs and the combined income has been remarkable. New car from Feb still running great, been making payments on time so my once shit credit is now steadily on the rise. I'm some kind of functional adult now... a stranger even to myself. I'm almost forty yall, been fucking off and ekeing through life for way too long. I guess better nate than lever!!!

[grue]

Yooo that's what I like to hear. Middle-class life here we come

[Kentucky Fried]

i've lost like 20kg and university is going alright so i'm doing pretty well

[fat lesbian]

i assembled a radio image of the supernova remnant 3c 391 from VLA data through repeated filtering of background noise

[K-Man]