Posts made by Aria

I only consider it white knighting when said 'knight' is stepping into some bullshit situation, trying to 'protect' someone (usually but not always a girl!) from a conflict or consequences that they likely created themselves, thereby looking like the Big Dicked Hero who was brave enough to take on The Big Mean.

Calling someone out on utterly unacceptable behavior regardless of who their target is? That's not white knighting. That's being a decent person that cares about community.

@surreality Depending on which Costco you go to, they also have the ice cream kind!

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@Aria said in RL things I love:

I just got into the top-ranked of the four MBA programs that I applied to -- making the interview I have at another one on Monday waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less stressful and dropping the fact that a third refused to grant me a GMAT waiver into a "Cool, you guys can withdraw my application" category of giving zero fucks.

Hooray!

Please take the economics courses seriously, though, seriously.

I'm way more worried about the accounting classes than anything else. I may work at a massive finance company, but not in a finance position. My understanding is in broad strokes and large scale, not what stock you should have in your portfolio. <pats her A's in Macroeconomics>

Not looking forward to "Financial Accounting for Managers".

I am very pleased at the emphasis on business ethics the program I'm interviewing with on Monday has, though, and it's one of the things that I pointed out in my essay. It's one of the things that drew me to my undergraduate school, too, along with their philosophy requirements. And it's definitely why I took a pay cut to move to the company I'm at now.

Having money is great. Having money at the cost of your soul and the well-being of large masses of other people, not so much. Fuck that.

I just got into the top-ranked of the four MBA programs that I applied to -- making the interview I have at another one on Monday waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less stressful and dropping the fact that a third refused to grant me a GMAT waiver into a "Cool, you guys can withdraw my application" category of giving zero fucks.

Netflix dropped season four of The Last Kingdom with, like, no pre-announced release date and no warning. It just kinda showed up. And I am SUPER EXCITED.

I can't stop laughing. It's like someone encapsulated "adulting" in a gif.

@Jennkryst It's really the "woopsie doodle!" that makes this one, I think.

So, there's a voting contest going on at my office right now where people can submit photos of their home setup to see who has the coolest one. That's not the important part of the story. That's the background.

The important part is that after one of my coworkers began teasing our teammate Elliot about his submission with an MS Teams chat about #ElliotForPresident, I started peppering him with hard-hitting questions about how he feels about dogs. Then asked if he'd be willing to have a dog as his running mate. Then Duke the dog-mayor of Minnesota came up....

And now my team is debating the possibility of a dog-based presidential cabinet and our willingness to remove term limits if future State of the Union addresses will be conducted with puppies replacing most of the officials normally on the podium.

I say vote Doggo in 2020.

@RightMeow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Today's peeve ---

My anxiety and what I do to myself. -- So I guess my peeve is myself?

People will say I'm upset at X behavior. Or X happened and I'm upset.

My Brain: I immediately go -- OMG it's me. They hate me. Should I apologize? Wait, what if they dont want to talk to me and then that's harassing. Oh no. I said a thing and got no reply, I overstepped. QUICK apologize. No wait, should I leave it be? AGGGHHHH

My logic: Umm.. you haven't talked to that person. That is not even in your behavior pattern. It cannot in any conceivable way be you.

My brain: But what if it IS my behavior pattern and I just don't recognize it because I'm behavior blind:

My logic: ....

My logic: So xanax or shots?

As I have often explained, it's deeply aggravating to both be intelligent and/or self-aware and to have a psychiatric disorder. Especially because people are like "Oooooooooooooh! Your brain is shiny and does the smart things!", without realizing it can do that and also malfunction on a fundamental level.

Yes, I am perfectly well aware that the thing my brain is doing right now is not only illogical, but in fact counterproductive. That doesn't mean I can make it stop doing the thing. Or that the coping strategy which I've developed is remotely healthy or helpful. That isn't how this works. That isn't how any of this works and believe me, person who is looking at me like I'm crazypants. You're right. I am. I know that. And I am even more frustrated with this dumb pile of goo between my ears than you are.

TL;DR - Muttering "ohmigod, why are you like this?!?" at yourself is a larger part of mental illness than you might think.

So it's pow-wow season -- or at least it's supposed to be. They, like everything else, have been cancelled.

Except literally thousands of people who would normally attend them have flooded into a group online to share videos of themselves dancing -- dancing in full regalia in their living rooms, their basements, their yards, the local park, a parking lot, a trail they hiked, everywhere. It's beautiful and moving and I have been watching every day, often for several hours with the videos up in the background while I'm working.

Specials -- aka competitions -- are still being held and today was the "Tiny Tot Special", for children six and under.

Today was also, quite unexpectedly, a really hard day. But then I got to spend my evening after work methodically going through every one of those videos tagged for the kids' special, liking each one, and leaving comments like "Wow, Branson! That's some fancy footwork. Thank you for sharing your dancing with us!" for the kids who got the least upvotes and replies.

I'm really glad I just got to say a bunch of nice things to a bunch of little kids who are probably really scared and confused right now and have their moms and dads tell me how excited their kids got when they read them everything people were saying.

That's probably weird, but it made today a whole lot better.