In the waiting room of the mental health clinic for you: underfunding screaming into your ears with bunch of kids with behavioural problems and 3 workers squeezed in a corner behind their desks and on phones arranging appointments and answering questions.

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Day 5 No more war in my head A short write up of my 5th day vacationing away from normal life. Now nearly a month ago... https://paragraph.com/@cheshirecat/day-5?referrer=0xe052B2FCF0343BA2Cc6A42EF5626C64e9b15f984

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Day 4 - not Holidaymaxxing - greeted by cabin owner in boxer shorts (aka underwear) https://paragraph.com/@cheshirecat/day-4

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Getting ready. Missing: a lot

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Is it good parenting or cheating when you ask your kids to save your Duolingo streak

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First class on applied people analytics done this year. I love that we are two instructors. It’s wonderful to see someone doing an amazing job. Class is small, only 12 students. But 5 to 6 active students not scared to share their experience. Next week will be deep dive into basic descriptive statistics. Students least favourite subject.

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01:00 storm with lightening and thunder 07:00 still raining heavily but my kids go to school (because I’m a mean mom) 11:00 first school notifies me of school closure because of the rain; second and third school follow soon afterwards with emails 11:30 kid#3 calls me that she’s leaving school now because of school closure because of the heavy rain 11:35 kid#3 calls me asking to be picked up because she is not allowed to leave (because of the rain). I refuse (because of the rain 🤣) 12:00 sun is shining 12:05 kid#4 arrives at home 12:10 kid#2 messages that she has to stay as normal because sun is shining 12:15 email from school 1 and 2 informing me that kid#1 to kid#3 will continue to have f2f class today. Sun still shining F2f Classes for tomorrow still cancelled because of potential rain Morale of the story: weather is hard to predict

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While reading the Score by C Thi Nguyen I realised two things - since undergrad I’m alternating between heavy quant focus to heavy human focus. - What is really exciting about social networks/graphs is that they look super technical, but simultaneously they are a story and you need words and context to make sense of them. Given that I alternate between technical (numbers) and stories (people) it makes sense that I love working and analysing social networks. Only took me 20 years to figure this out

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kid#3 voicemail greeting is a plea to me to loosen parental control Me like an idiot started talking to her getting annoyed that she doesn’t even say hi how are you 😂

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Eat cake. Whenever and however the fuck you want. Especially if your mom made it (aka me) and you are sharing it with your kids in the kitchen all digging into it

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“…and he’s dominicano” kid#2 explained excited about her new love prospect. Me, flabbergasted at why nationality matters, stare at her. “That means he’s hot af” she explains and then skips away happily

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Today I had oats with mascarpone. Because I slept like shit and didn’t turn on the kitchen light. Not that bad, but now I need to buy mascarpone for the cake.

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Me: what’s that? Kid#3: an ai apple eating a slice of apple Me: why Kid#3: I got more. Cucumbers Me: why Kid#3: it’s a meme Me: why? What’s the idea behind it! Kid#3: it’s just a meme Me: but why? Why did you answer with an ai apple eating a slice of apple? What are you trying to tell me? Kid#3: it’s just a sticker… Abbreviated conversation of me trying to stay in the loop with the young folks

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Home strength training Made donuts Poked myself in the eye with mascara Now heading to port to fight with Germans. Bunch of entitled brute tourists End of day: concert of kid#4

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Me not understand my kid. Ok mañana I get but it doesn’t make sense in the context of “see you soon to grab a coffee” Me feel very old

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