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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I’ve got good fine motor control, which means that I can sew, knit, roll a joint, braid hair, make a pastry, seal a dumpling, fold origami, draw, sculpt, paint nails, pick a lock, and most other fine dexterity tasks, excluding musical instruments.

    This sounds like bragging, but I didn’t do anything to earn the ability to do this, I literally just do it and it works. I’m not proud of it (though I’m occasionally proud of the things I can craft) and I don’t think anyone else is unskilled because it doesn’t work when they do it.







  • I finished! I was ~4 hours late, but it’s a Sunday and I think she’ll be lenient, plus I was done right in time for 04:20 🙃

    When I finish nursing this j, I’m going to eat the cookie butter roll I smeared in anticipation of finishing and nearly caved on because it was fucking beautiful.

    Sorry, these are some long comments- I guess I’m still in essay writing mode, lol. Now I’m worried that my uptick in posting and prolific comments are going to make it seem like I’m one of the recent ai trolls. I think I just need to eat and sleep for a while, lol.


  • I planned to write a paper on my own research in roughly 20 hours (thankfully, the research was a group project and shame is an effective motivator for me, so that got done nearly on time, and the delay wasn’t my fault) and it took me about 60 all told. I got the first third done in a few hours, the next third about 15 hours later, and about 40 hours on the last third and formatting the attachments.

    The most irritating thing is that I start to become gradually more and more fascinated and simultaneously hopeful and I’ll finish any moment now, every time I write a paper. I start to enjoy investigating the topic so much that I slow down and hyperfocus on details, sabotaging myself while wishing I had started earlier so I could really get into it. I cannot overstate that this happens every time I write a paper and yet I still always procrastinate starting.

    I tried to analyze why I was procrastinating this time and the furthest I got was that I knew once I started, I’d fill the remaining time with it like a goldfish growing to fit its habitat, and I didn’t want to do that much work. But I knew that I would enjoy it once I started, so I couldn’t figure out why I was still avoiding it.

    I made a partial breakthrough by writing a to do list for the paper and discussing in depth how one even writes a paper with my endlessly patient husband, but that only worked for the second burst.



  • Tbh, extra dry skin is the one skin condition I would have expected it to improve. That’s really good to know about the emotions. I’m probably an egg who’s very afraid of turning into a rage machine, but I’d much prefer occasional controllable anger to every intense emotion causing tears (which it currently does for me, even positive ones if they’re strong enough).






  • It’s almost certainly possible, but it might void your warranty/be illegal, depending on your jurisdiction (and qualifications- it’s probably not illegal if you’re a licensed mechanic, but might violate your employment contract). Even if it’s not illegal, it might affect your liability insurance coverage.

    I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, but make sure you know what the potential consequences are.