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Life's pretty good right now. It's like average which is perfect. I feel like sometimes people take average for granted and it's good to think about shitty stuff you've gotten through just to get to things being average. Kind of like you you should appreciate being able to breathe out of your nose if you don't have a cold (sorry if you have a blocked nose right now). I'm getting on alright with money, making progress in making my new house feel like a home, keeping it decently clean, I'm making good progress with my hobbies and interests. I'm still trying to repair my attention span after declaring I would try to do that sometime last year and I feel lik it's pretty good lately. I haven't been meditating as much as I'd like to but I have started playing video games more, reading, watching movies, which are things I usually can't be bothered to do. I've been going to work, going to my internship.
Speaking of work, I was meant to have an interview on Wednesday but I think the recruiter messed up the time slots and I didn't end up having it. It's like the perfect job for me and I'm so bummed its going wrong. I got an email today that we could reschedule for today but Its been 3 hours since that email and i still haven't recieved a response so I don't even know man. Imagine my excitment, getting offered an interview for a job relevant to my degree, my software skills, my work experience and I don't get it on a weird technical issue. I'm very sure it'll work out though. And if not I'm sure it's because something greater is out there for me...
I went vegan on Monday to try out being Vegan for a week. I've messed up like 3 times so far I think. Forgot to ask for oat milk in my coffee on Monday, put butter on my bread on Tuesday without thinking and also ate crisps with milk in them (who would have thought) but, I haven't messed up since then. It's both really easy and hard. I find it's not that hard to cook cheap vegan meals for myself but when it comes to snacking it's literally impossible to find vegan stuff (think biscuits and crap like that). Even when you do find a vegan snack it's always got palm oil in it which I'm also trying to avoid. On top of all this, most of this stuff has really unsustainable packaging. I want to transition from shopping at supermarkets because every thing you buy needs to be covered in plastic packaging. I guess if I cut down on snacking it's save me a lot of money anyway aswell as being more ethical. Times like this I'm reminded how hard it is to buy ethically. There is a zero waste shop sort of near to me that I've been to before but it's not really possible to do whole shops there. It's mostly teas, coffees, oats, beans, pulses, vinegar, flour, stuff like that. I mostly eat vegetables and leafy greens. Also, I recognise all these efforts are pretty much pointless from one person but I just feel really guilty contributing to the meat and dairy industries and making more waste.
I was talking about movies and reading, I'm really into Easy Rider (1969) right now and I started to continue my read of Higurashi. Also been listening to a bunch of audio books at work like stuff by Robert Monroe and iWoz (thank you SLSK). I really like Higurashi, I'm on chapter 2. I think I prefer chapter 1 but I won't really be able to tell what I think until I finish it because the last couple parts of chapter 1 were what made it so peak. I'm sort of losing a lot of sleep reading Higurashi because I keep staying up until 2am reading it but oh well, I hardly get freetime in the day from work. iWoz is a great book, I'm only half way through it but Steve Wozniak is such a great guy even to this day. I think it's cool that he's a well known tech guy who's so anti AI.
I'll leave this off talking about work one more time. I really need to start working my way into the illustration industry. I'm still working towards an illustration career as I mentioned in my last blog with my internship but I need to start actually making a name for myself. I hate that I need to post online and market myself to get into the industry (not that I'm surprised by that, that's literally how it works) but it's just such a drag and I never know how or what to post. It doesn't help that a lot of the art I do isn't really stuff I want to post professionally.
