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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 4h

I have repotted so many plants. So many. I didn't want to work in the basement so I set up on a tarp in the living room, but still had to run to the basement a lot and was up and down... Yeah. I had dinner and now I have an appointment with some ibuprofen and a hot bath.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 10h

Was abruptly reminded it’s a terrible anniversary. Once my brain had its meltdown over needing a reminder in the first place, I took myself to the cheesecake coffee shop for cheesecake slices to eat/go in the freezer.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 11h

I have great taste in plants and I can grow them okay, too. Both these things are very unfortunate when it comes to repotting.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 12h

Ugh, I'm just allergy sleepy enough for it to be impacting my actual get up and go to do anything. How much am I going to regret cup of coffee #3? (Which I'm 100% going to go make rn)

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 14h

I have sent career advisor the requested email. Rather long, but I think it's all useful information. Now it's 100% snack time/second breakfast.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One greenhouse uses wire hangers on their hanging plants that are great for heavy plants right up until you need to repot, then they're a pita to take off and replace. I have now conclusively proven* that effort is worth it.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went to coffee shop greenhouse for a few specific things and ran into my university career advisor. Spent a good 20 minutes catching up with him, during which my interest in a job change came up. He was on it immediately and now I'm supposed to send him an email, which is an excellent development ☺️

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hair cut this afternoon and otherwise: Plants 😌 Have culled a few before winter gets here. Need to put up a few more lights and still have a LOT of repotting and fertilizing on the list 😅

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My watch: You've had a stressful day 😔 Me: But I had 4 hours of rest! ...Okay, that was mostly while I was still asleep.

A stress measurement readout from a sport watch. There are mostly tall and taller orange spikes over the day indicating high stress levels. The comparatively few short, blue levels are almost all before 8 am.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have spent the last 2-3 hours engaged in full body contact houseplant maintenance. By which I mean, I was so over the plethora of rubber plants I repotted all but the oldest/largest into a single pot (tight but viable! 😂) then repotted the oldest/largest. If they live, they live.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 hours PTO was definitely the right call. Decided to order groceries this week and those have half arrived. Meanwhile I've had a hot bath and gratuitous dessert and it's not even quite 5 pm yet 😌

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FREE. And I think I’ve settled on splitting the difference on exams - PE Civil Structural instead of PE Structural/SE (and instead of PE Civil Water Resources). If I need to take it later, I will, but the chances aren’t high.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Def PTO after 1:30 meeting and lunch break in the meantime. Currently looking at example exam questions for the SE (the longer licensing exam) and I may be certifiably insane above and beyond what everyone already knows. This is going to be more than an hour a night studying for sure 😅

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Different person managed to seriously piss me off at the end of that meeting and co-worker called immediately after it was over to talk me off the ledge, so that’s how my Friday is going. Completely unrelated, afternoon likely be spontaneous PTO after 1:30 meeting

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Morning starting with a major implied burn by lead PM in a team meeting 🙃

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Therapist, re: main licensing exam: "Since there's only one license regardless of exam, I assume you'll take the easiest one." Me: ... Therapist, grimacing: "I heard it as I was saying it. You'll take the one that seems the most strategic and damn the difficulty."

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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cocoon. 📖

A character with black butterfly wings drinking from a cup and reading. The smoke coming from the cup has a ghost cat shape. The character is surrounded by plants and there's a window behind them. A lamp is lighting the scene from the top.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fall allergy season continues to be absolute murder this year 🥱🫩

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reactivated LI premium. Need to start studying for my final licensing exam - should probably aim for an hour a night and see how that works.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Related to last post, work motivation rating for today: -3 Hoping this second cup of coffee gets me up at least to zero.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another night of plenty of low quality sleep 🥱 Can't have too easy of a day, can't have too action packed of a day, it's almost like you need to have rest and activity both balancing each other 😠

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Farnes @farnes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the only piece of furniture I want

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lmao work chat got smacked down and informed there were better ways to handle it

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I now have meetings until 5 pm with two half hour breaks but brunch/early lunch was a charcuterie type plate and I’m still on the couch so everything’s going fine :)

A plate with salami slices, a small baby bel style cheese, fruit (kiwi, grapes, and blueberries), and crispy bagel chips.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...Oh look, a wild meeting appeared

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also work chat is squabbling over standards (or lack thereof) again and I've fully checked out of caring after 3 years so I'm just watching it unfold and eating popcorn

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Work motivation is such I started today via tablet on the couch. Now I have an hour break until next meeting and I should be doing resource allocations, especially since it's then meetings straight through to 4 pm other than having a lunch break (YAY). But what if... Not now. Later? Later.

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazing to see Kate Spade New York is the inaugural donor for the real life Irina Foundation, whose fictional inspiration was named for a character who lost their life to suicide. For those who don't know, Spade suffered from depression and anxiety for many years before her death by suicide in 2018.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally mounted the plant light for the massive ivy and also did more than stand on the treadmill. Now, a hot bath awaits.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Belly full of dinner that's slowly digesting while the sun sets and early fall weather transitions from warm day to cold night. Letting the pups enjoy outside time for a while yet, then I'll go stand on the treadmill once things are closed up.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was starving with two meetings to go before being out of office for the day, so those meetings were via tablet from the kitchen. Now I have 30-45 minutes until I need to leave which is gonna be brain spinning down time since I've already eaten.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

8 am meeting to lead but at least it's internal (and possibly the last since co-worker is set to return? unclear) I should be concerned about all resource allocation projections I need to have done in the next 2 (to 3...) days, but I'm really just annoyed.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

7:30 bedtime looking realllll seductive tonight

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's just that I'm developing a strong craving for less chaos, more acknowledgement, and a return to where art influences the design

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like “should I resubscribe to LI even tho I don’t plan on anything until I qualify for my full license next spring?” kind of disgruntled. Meh.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting the week feeling very disgruntled with my job

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have repotted 16 plants and I am now very tired 😅 I should definitely check what needs watered the most drastically and, y'know, do that, but also. Sitting down.

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LooseThreadStitchery @loosethreadstitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Shades of Light sampler, possibly my favourite design to date, was finished #OTD in 2023. #Blackwork #embroidery on 14-count Aida. Pattern here: bit.ly/3VeTYRu

A photo of a blackwork embroidery sampler on black cloth. It consists of 12 inner sections shaped like thin diamonds, and 12 outer sections in larger diamond shapes, arranged to form a circular starburst. Each section is filled with a repetitive geometric motif stitched in white and coloured thread. The threads in each section overlap to form a gradient between white at the inner point of the diamond and a colour at the outer point. The colours are arranged to form a colour wheel. Each section is outlined in white thread.

A close-up photo of a blackwork embroidery sampler on black cloth. It consists of 12 inner sections shaped like thin diamonds, and 12 outer sections in larger diamond shapes, arranged to form a circular starburst. Each section is filled with a repetitive geometric motif stitched in white and coloured thread. The threads in each section overlap to form a gradient between white at the inner point of the diamond and a colour at the outer point. The colours are arranged to form a colour wheel. Each section is outlined in white thread. The camera is held near the blue sections.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apparently needed to reinvent the wheel again this fall and realize I both know why my chest is tight and I'm getting super sleepy every afternoon, and also that I have the tools to make it better. Which is all to say I've gotten out my two extra allergy meds and also used my inhaler.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, I have 60 or so plants I'd like to already have repotted, most of which really need done before winter.

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

State of the potting bench. The rolling bin in the foreground has standard bagged potting soil. The bags and bins at the back have soil mix ingredients: orchid bark, chicken sand, worm castings, vermiculite, perlite, black lava sand, leca, horticultural charcoal, pumice, and coconut chips

A shelving unit in an unfinished basement with the top being used as a workbench. There are pots and other assorted plant things on the shelves, a few bags piled at the end, and large bins stacked up next to a door in the far wall.

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