Laura @Virelai@octodon.social

So, following @julia@harpy.life, 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 ;)

When you look at your phone and you suddenly have several missed calls from the future father in law that never calls you, you definitley think the worst.

Never so happy to "secretly" buy the mother in law jewelery for their wedding anniversary because he doesn't have a way to order it without her noticing.

Jesus.

If those people need to be spoonfed sources to explore, they are PROBABLY to lazy to do antiracist work anyway...

Probably they just do that instead of google so their one black friend "knows" they're one of the good ones.

Someone was literally defending this "Maybe they don't know what to type in google" and...?! Google doesn't send you an invoice for $$$ for every query so maybe just...try something?! And ooh, surprise - "racism, books" or "racism, resources" gives you plenty of material to work through - WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. People out there treating this as if it were a new thing that probably no one has written about yet, wtf.

Read quite a few accounts from black people saying their dms are overrun with random white people, asking for ressources and when they complain about it, plenty of white people defending this with "at least they want to do something, that's a good thing, why not help them out?"... How long will it take for people to understand that antiracist education shouldn't have to be spoonfed from people affected by racism?!

Ravelry, the fibrecraft website, is matching donations to blackvisionmn.org & ReclaimTheBlock.org if you forward the receipt to
blacklivesmatter@ravelry.com
https://twitter.com/ravelry/status/1267485684836831235?s=19

Least favorite part: cleaning up

Made my first hand bag - bought most of the materials in 2018, I had planned to make one quite a while ago but never pulled through. It took me quite a bit longer than it should have but that seems to be my common theme with sewing. The mistakes I did make anyway are hardly visible so I am happy with the outcome!
Pattern is Milow by Zucker & Zimt Design, just added some extra interior pocketsssss
#sewing #mastoart #fibrearts

My best friend who had a pretty rough year suffering from depression told me today that she loves herself and feels comfortable in her own skin again. That was fantastic to hear and you could really see that she feels better.
She's a elementary school teacher, so had less work than normal and no interpersonal drama with colleagues these past month and this was a really good thing for her.

She also basically wrote an entire novel during that time!

Also cried in my bosses office today which was, well, awkward... Anyway, got to say goodbye to three people, the rest wasn't there and honestly don't know if I could have handled more so maybe it was a good thing that the current situation made this so weird.

I rarely dream these days or I can rarely remember but tonight I was part of some special air force fighting crimes on flying, super fast mopeds with three other badass women and I approve! Very good aesthetics too, someone please write a novel and then make a movie out of it.

Just sifted through my desk and stuff, threw out tons of papers and notes I don't understand anymore.
Also put all the little notes and gifts from colleagues that I kept into a little bag and brb, just cryling alone in my office for a bit.

Also I don't have a job coming, so I'll have to find a new one in this dire situation which of course doesn't come without anxiety.

I'm also somewhat relieved because I feel like I overstayed here and it's just time to get out there, even if it's going to be difficult. Also I really don't want to go back and forth between cities anymore. It's good to only have one home starting next week.

So. I'm physically at work right now, first time since mid-march.
It's my last week, my contract is running out and it is super weird. Few people are here, some things have changed (new large plants, someone is very visibly pregnant who wasn't when I last saw her).

It's weird to not have a proper goodbye and have it fizzle out like that.
Also uncomfortable conversation with a colleague asking about my PhD that well... isn't done.

@Juju Feuerwerk, die Dame?

I'm guessing that'll be one of the lasting changes of this pandemic. Small shops are more likely to allow and encourage paying cashfree now, even for small amounts and I think that people will get used to it a little with time. Paying bread at the bakery with a card would have been super unusual before, but now encouraged, at least in some bakeries.

Time I used the ATM:
- last half of 2019: 11
- first half of 2020: 4

Last time I took out cash was March 4th. I have to go get some soon-ish because we have a roadside strawberry stand closeby and I LOVE strawberries 🍓.

You might know, Germany is still very much cash reliant (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-06/germany-is-still-obsessed-with-cash, https://www.statista.com/chart/19868/share-of-cash-payments-in-different-countries/) so to not need cash for so long is unusual for a German!

#COVID19

@Juju Hanabi? <3

It's so good to have a balcony again! <3 Very sunny but not too warm in the shade and no work due to a public holiday - yay!

Whooo, I looked different 5 years ago. I think that was straight after a fresh haircut and of course from a time when I still used a round brush when blow drying my hair. I look so innocent?! I think I didn't even have glasses back then.

Friends of mine just had their baby! I also was about to finish the baby pants I was making for them so good timing.
Yarn is from a German dyer (Piratenwolle) that I found in my stash during lockdown and it's the Min Kärlek Babypants pattern by Alice Heterjag
#knitting