Laura @Virelai@octodon.social

So, following @julia, here are my #MastoVoice #introductions, and be assured it was super awkward filming this. Phew. But here, go and enjoy my double chin.

I'm late to the #introductions, but here it goes. I'm 30, she/her, from #Germany. I work as a environmental scientist at a university, pursuing a PhD degree. I need some #python #programming skills to do that.
I'm fairly into #crafts, especially #fiberarts like #knitting and #sewing.
I enjoy #boardgames a lot, I also started playing #shadowrun about a year ago.
#games like #citiesskylines or #civilization5 have quite a few hours on my steam account.
Plus: Trying to improve my #french ;)

Had a fun Christmas party! The actual party is always a surprise, we don't know what we'll do, so when it was announced that we meet at 8:30 am we were indeed a little surprised :D They booked a local university owned "café" that has a professional kitchen! The organization team bought lots of groceries, then we were divided in groups and were supposed to come up with different recipes that uses the groceries - in the end we had a very yummy big buffet ;)

Ah, watching conservatives angry about impeachment (https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1204885618590961665)... it's pretty much the CORE of the US constitution that the citizens have the means, power (& arms!) to remove a government in case of misconduct... so, this is pretty much the constitution at work here, isn't it?
But yeah no, they don't care about the constitution unless it's to yell out that it's their god given right to bear arms and spread hate speech aka free speech.

I have less physical Christmas presents this year which means that I'm pretty much done with getting presents (✌️), but I barely have anything to wrap and I really like wrapping presents...

I'm seeing myself sitting at the job center three weeks from now: "I wasn't supposed to be out of work - my new contract is unfortunately stuck in administration... yeah I know, AGAIN! Just like three month ago... BuT tHiS TiMe iT's bEcAuSe Of ThE HaCkErS, you know, totally not my fault *puts on wildest look*"

Looks like it's going to take a while, it seems there was novel malware used in the cyber attack and it'll take time to figure it out.

So I'll stay in Home Office a little longer.

As you might now, I'm regularly using gifs on my anki vocabulary flashcards. I was adding the french word for hiccups and looked through giphy and... let's just say I wasn't disappointed when I found this: https://giphy.com/gifs/lookin-whatchu-Inxc3qzTAgFIk

The university I work for was hit by cyber attack, everything is offline. No internet, no servers, no websites since yesterday. They're about to put out a temporary website to keep us informed, so far they could only update via twitter and such... Crazy times. They're not sure when they can put everything back up. I'm in home office anyway today but wow.

Nature being wild again
cw: crabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ&

Did the first christmas-y thing for this season, if you don't count eating themed candy & baked goods at least! I bought chalk markers a while ago for a board game and social media just reminded me what normal people use this for. I can't draw well but it was fun anyhow and it's not permanent, so

Ugh, I - a vegetarian - am knee deep right now researching some numbers and statistics about certain aspects of meat production and I have to say I'm very happy if I don't have to read all those words or see those pictures anymore.

An hour later, my boss send out an e-mail with the same info, apparently he overlooked the mail my coworker send. Subject matter he chose? "important" and then wrote that it's a crazy world where you sometimes miss the most important things, like the coffee machine working again.

Yes, we're very fond of our coffee!

Co-worker sends e-mail through work mailing list with subject matter "working morale" and I'm like wtf is he onto. I braced myself and opened the mail.
... he informed us that the Number 1 way to restore working morale was available again: he fixed the coffee machine.

Good man, very good man.

Whoop whoop, 300 day streak for my french vocabulary using #anki! Mon dieu!

I have cast on a small project, the Badlands Mitts by Kathryn Folkerth (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/badlands-mitts). They have a subtle textured pattern using slipped stitches and some wandering 1x1 ribbing. Using Filcolana Indiecita, 100% alpaca which has been in my stash forever and it's pretty perfect for the project. Color is hard to capture, it's a little subdued/greyed down green/blue melange color (named aqua mist melange)
#knitting #fiberarts

Pretty sure that was a lighting issue in the store, the street lights give a similar effect! Even the phone camera can somewhat catch it!
Standing outside in the dark, lit by streetlights vs. sitting in the car, lit by the cars interior light

Also its not the first time that the parents got each other riled up over WhatsApp and one parent told my friend that they left the group because they were like an angry mob and the parent felt bad about how they were talking about my friend and the other teachers...

And then think about how its fucked up that we can't even be sick for a few days and recover in peace, not even in elementary school!

I know its hard for parents in this capitalistic society to stay home with their sick kids or find someone to stay with them. No doubt.

... Angry mails for ensuring kids that it's okay to be sick and stay home and recover! What the actual fuck!

First of all, if elementary school kids tell you something from their day, just consider that MAYBE, MAYBE the way your kid summed up the story is not the entire story.

Secondly, before sending angry mails, maybe ASK what that conversation was all about before getting all nuclear

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The same day she got angry mails from parents, saying she would keep their kids from getting a proper education!
Like wtf! Two kids have apparently summed up the conversation down to "Mrs. X said we should stay home whenever we don't feel good" to their parents and because the parents have a WhatsApp group, they apparently compared what the kids said and made a huge deal out of it, send angry mails to her as well as the director of the school.