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Probably a bit of a "bruh"
I don't know what hit me but I was feeling somewhat sick for... the entirety of the past 4-5 weeks, I believe. Probably the flu, hope it's just my regularly scheduled Autistic burnout, really hope it's not COVID... Never sick enough to warrant a sick leave (not that my boss would allow it at this point anyway), but I really wasn't feeling it. I thought I recovered this week... went for some workout that got too intense on Mon, and voilà I'm stressed out again, so I guess I'll just do my "new-immigrant mandated" amounts of Meetup groups (separate topic as to why new immigrants need to attend Meetups to build friendgroups... but I digress) and rest
Work got a bit interesting. Half of the people in the tiny research lab I'm working at decided to quit sooner or later, so there's a bit of a weird tension around... and work-wise I'm now in a weird place where I really don't have much to do but have to fake busy for 7,6 hours a day (lunch break not included). I'm seriously contemplating asking for a week or two off
There are good things happening though so it's not all negative