Hello, call me Gallium, or Spoon, or Gallium Spoon! I am 26, I'm an occupational therapist, and I used to say this blog's theme was books and cats but there is no theme only my ever changing whims.
The cat in my profile pic is named Jasmine, she is my parents' cat. And my header is a pic I took of Sue the world's most complete T Rex fossil
[ID: an illustration of a snow leopard leaping toward the viewer with its paws outstretched and its tail curled up and over it. It’s on a mottled blue background that resembles snow. End.]
Warriors game where you play as a group of researchers trying to collect data on the cats as they sabotage every attempt for you to observe them. AND you're on a budget.
I've had the fourth and fifth Percy Jackson books on hold at the library for a while and I finally got the fifth book but not the fourth! 😭
I was doing a pretty good job of being patient and reading other books but now that I physically have the fifth book and can't start it the wait is driving me crazy
Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.
Me: hey it seems like my debit card isn't working, it's my back up card, I don't use it often so I'm not sure how long it might've been having problems but could you help me figure out what's going on?
Bank person: well, if you go six months without using a card it's assumed lost or stolen and automatically deactivated
Me: *scoffs* yeah, no, that's not it, it can't have been *that* long
Bank person: ok let me look up the card history *pause* hmm, it appears that it's been 7 months since this card's last purchase
Toothpaste companies must really hate people who are allergic to mint toothpaste, which a lot of people are! Apparently it's NOT supposed to burn like minty hellfire? (I'm fine with mint candy, it's only mint toothpaste that hurts)
I've been using Tom's fennel for years, but am now trying to find one with fluoride in it, and finding a toothpaste that is no mint and yes fluoride should not be such a huge and infuriating quest. still got some more grocery stores to search, but not even the children's toothpaste in the nearest one had any that were suitable.
I must tell you all the tale of The Documentation Creature
So, a while back I doodled this little guy:
during my lunch break and stuck him on the corner of one of the work computers
Well my new little friend took no time developing Office Lore. This is The Documentation Creature (D.C. for short), he watches over unsaved documents and protects against computer ghosts (computer ghosts are the beings that cause random computer issues like error messages you've never seen before)
Everyone in my department is in agreement on the importance of D.C. To the point that today while I was documenting, my computer randomly decided to restart with no warning. My coworker heard me muttering 'no, no, stupid computer' and *Instantly* said "oh no, do you need the Creature?" and handed him to me
We stuck him to the computer I'd been working on so he can do his magic and I switched to a different one
And! I didn't lose any of the progress on the note I'd been writing