Wait for it.

Anyway it’ll be fine! I also have some anxiety about living with another person like, at all, creeping in. And I have not lived in a house since I was 17. I am 34!!! Half my life ago!!!!!!! It’s a big deal!

I’m tired!!!!!

I see it as a really big responsibility and want to do a good job! For anyone who doesn’t know what a union steward does, I don’t know a lot yet, but my impression is that it can range widely from responding to emails from union members to attending disciplinary meetings as a union rep and making sure managers are following the proceedings above-board. I see it as being an advocate.

I may have to go back to tea/kombucha/refreshers only, but so many of the coffee shops here do not have good options for non-coffee drinks! It aggravates me.

But relatedly it is tough to be making so much more money than your partner and knowing he is very unhappy with his salary, and meanwhile I have had two 5ish% raises in the past three months (the first as part of our new union contract). Like my salary is now 10k higher than it was in May. Which is crazy!!!!

Was very bereft because I was in the middle of three books I didn’t like, so I picked this up on a whim at a used bookstore today…I absolutely LOVE it so far. It’s a travel memoir following backroads in the US from 1982, and the writer has such an eye for detail, such poignant insights, and clearly has a way with people given the interactions he has with them. I guess it’s a “critically acclaimed bestseller” but, while I own (but haven’t read) another book by this author, I’d never heard of it.

The worst part of it is that he is also leaving the rank smell on surfaces like the sofa. There isn’t any visible stain or anything but I imagine this has got to be an anal glands thing or something? GAHHHHHHHH. My sinuses are too inflamed to deal with this. Though also I shudder to think how bad the smell is with clear nasal passages.