Just One Thing! (30 January 2017)

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I made progress towards a few different things and I made meatballs.

...okay, it came out more like meat sauce with a few lumps in it, but it's tasty.

[cosmolinguist]

Food is good, aesthetics is secondary. :)

[nanila]

Several political actions, including writing to my MP.

Temporarily (?) deactivated my Twitter account, because it was damaging my ability to cope.

[cosmolinguist]

All good things to do. Hope you've got a little more cope now.

[cosmolinguist]

Made a sign. Went on the #MuslimBan protest.

[azurelunatic]

Scheduled an interview. (Phone.)

Continued the helpful habit of seeing a movie before the Obnoxious Medical Education class. (Hidden Figures. Have you wanted to see three awesome and real Black women be friends and deal with 1961 Virginia as engineers, mathematicians, and programmers during the space race? It is quite literally uplifting in several senses of the word.)

Went to the Obnoxious Medical Education class.

Showed my friend how to use some screen color filter features.

Positioned myself to be able to flee the room without disturbing anyone else if I needed to.

Fled the room temporarily at the first hint of ... whatever you call it when someone makes themselves vulnerable about a struggle and then someone invalidates the struggle. Fuckhead.

Pointed out that claiming that the strategy of reassuring yourself that you will be okay and functional on short sleep fails in some circumstances: below a certain point you're not safe to drive; even if you're at the "technically functional but serious mood effects" point, if your job is creative or involves a good mood (or surface acting) like customer service, you're not actually able to function.

Deliberately and methodically tore the sheet of paper with the unsafe assignment into strips, neither calling especial attention to what I was doing, nor bothering to be particularly quiet.

In lieu of going through meditation guided by the well-meaning asshat described above, I bailed on the class 20 minutes early.

Made a clear and unambiguous request for my partner to call me, without demanding. (Generally I invite them to call me. This was different.)

Dealt with the physical effects of not having enough food with the medication that needs to be taken with food. And now I know.

Had a lovely chat with my partner and their friends who are hosting them currently.

Refrained from saying what I thought about the current political regime on the grounds that we didn't need that much swearing.

Went to bed at a sensible time given the circumstances.

[silveradept]

Got to be good at my job, and then good at my job, and then handle things with grace when the technology went splat for much of the evening.

Had a lovely conversation with my partner and with the people I'm staying with.

Effectively (hopefully) pulled my partner away from an upsetting topic with humor and affection.

[azurelunatic]

Splat! Technology, alas...

(Yes.)

[alatefeline]

Worked yesterday. Got home and slept a lot. Realized I was getting sick. Asked and got for moral support for phone anxiety and general guilt around being sick. Called in sick today.