first two days at the rental office

Okay, so, longer job post!

My schedule is for ~26 hours spread over three days: two 10-hour shifts and one 8-hour shift (less half-hour lunch breaks). I will be working Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. I have the use of a parking spot in one of the lots the company owns (we rent parking as well as apartments), but I think I will only use that on bad-weather days, or if I need to get somewhere rapidly after work or maybe during a lunch break. At the moment, I'm walking to a bus stop and then catching a bus to the neighborhood, and just walking all the way home. (I don't want to walk both directions because oh god hills and I am out of shape for that; also, I don't care if I get home all sweaty but it's bad form to start your work day all sweaty.)

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And that was my first two days at work. :)

conversations with my sister

Liz: Today's goal: work :)
Vicky: Haha good goal :P my goals are packing for [place], run, and outlining my freebie epilogue to be written on the plane tmrw!
Liz: Go you!
Vicky: I really like this texting of goals thing! I feel like it helps me clarify and also boil each day down to reasonable size
Liz: Yes! My to-do lists can seem overwhelming, so it's really helpful to say, "What is REALLY the important part here?" and plan accordingly

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( and here we start talking about depression and anxiety )

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I really, really appreciate having a sister, you know? We fought like cats and dogs until, hmm, roughly her freshman year of high school. But we have also always been each other's best friend. Neither of us is great at maintaining regular contact over distance, though, which is another reason I like this new habit of texting our daily goals to each other. It opens up a space for other communication as well. :)

(Transcription note: I have obviously edited the above conversation a little -- redacted two things for privacy, fixed finger-slip typos, rearranged a couple messages that got delayed in transmission -- but I left capitalization, punctuation, and my own misspellings alone.)