Very tired and my tummy hurts and my emotions are bad but still gotta be at work another 6 hours
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Did I impulse buy more candy than we need considering kids donāt really trick or treat in this apartment complex without prompting? yes. am I going to eat it anyway. also yes.
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Awawawawa
Good news: husband home :D
Bad news: been having a helluva spiral about an acquaintance, so, yknow, having a normal one
Fortunately i have a system for dealing with spirals B]
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Whereās the fucking. Comic this joke was coming from.
Anyway hi Iām home I have a wife and a cat. Iām telling everyone about the Japanese scallop farm-fishery and also their starfish lethal injection robot
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iām quite curious to know about the starfish lethal injection robot
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most of my day has been around writing this:
tw for self harm, abuse, death, homophobia, c-ptsd. its about figuring out how i feel about writingā> how dare you be kind
ive been struggling with writing so im glad to have written this but also hoping i donāt regret it later like i tend to (too personal to go on the ko-fi 
but thatās okay i tell myself)
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So for context. Japanās scallop fishery is made entirely out of human reared seed. They collect the babies from the water on one coast (floating mesh bags - the larvae swim inside, and then stay and grow too big to get out), raising them until the minimum age/size that they can go out into the scalloping grounds on the other side of Hokkaido. Then theyāre shipped over for the fisherman to plant on the scalloping grounds.
Shellfish raising is very much like farming in that the thing you are farming is stationary and therefore you have to maintain the ground it is planted on. A new planting of shellfish draws every shellfish predator from the next 5 mile radius because āOh boy, sudden new giant pile of foodā. This is the reason why shellfish make 5 gazillion babies in the first place, they die in the thousands at every step, including once they hit the seafloor for the first time. So the fishermen will try to clear the grounds of starfish before the scallops go out for the first time. Largely they do this with dredges, or starfish mops, which are mop-like bundles of cotton fibers that entangle in starfish spines so they can be lifted out of the water.
However. The lethal injection robot is a new AUV theyāve been working on with a robotics company (the exact name was lost to the language barrier). But itās a cheery yellow-hulled remote-controlled robot that goes around injecting vinegar directly into sea stars, which kills them within 24 hrs. The whole conference room lost its shit when he explained what they were and what they did, and the fishermen were Incredibly excited. Even though like, the starfish which are the predominant predators over here are much smaller and in higher concentrations than can be reasonably taken out by a fleet of stabbing robots. Still though. What a concept. Man even made a very silly joke about asking for startup money.
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After a year of searching I found a new place to live! Signed the lease today. Iām annoyed that I have to pay as much as I am for a place with no laundry (looking into portable options) BUT at least I wonāt be homeless (again), Iām above ground and Iām still in the city. Being grateful for those. We have a backyard too so hopefully Iāll get back into filming yoyo tricks.
Our current landlords are being chill and giving us until the 15th to fully move out so we can have a slightly less stressful move.
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Got sickā¦ I just canāt catch a break I feel so bad about all the work Iām skipping. 
Spent all night (gross) completely emptying the contents of my stomach and itās finally now calmed downā¦ But idk how my bodyās gonna react to food right now so Iāll stay home from work and just make a bunch of mild vegetable soupā¦
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Yeahhh that type of symptom is Deeply unpleasant. Hope it stays away now and you can slowly get food back in.
If you can also, simple crackers can help a lot. Flat gingerale or ginger beer can help, too.
Iām gonna graduate! classification was published week before last but zero notification or instructions on how to find it. today I was like āthey have to have fuckin published that shit by now itās been over two monthsā and went looking for it. it was buried deep in a sub menu in the student portal. awesome 
ANYWAY. thatās not the point. the point is that Iām gonna graduate! with the highest grade! Auldnoir user crow, MSc, at ur service :D
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Congrats, Iām glad you made it! Whatās your master, if you donāt mind us asking?
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this reminds me that i need people to call me Master Barquq more often. I donāt want my doctorate because Master sounds cooler
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MSc Applied Psychology! mental health/therapy, basically :) I really enjoyed it and Iām so glad I was able to get such a good classification, because I really want to work in the field and itās competitive. thisāll serve me well on my CV etc esp. since I didnāt get a first in my Bachelors LOL
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and then on the flipside Things Keep Happening with my brother in lawās cancelled engagement and itās pretty awful and no one knows what to do. 
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āMaster Barquq, your table is readyā
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Making a plurality introduction document for our parents wish us luck 
Im gonna run it past my headmates but im taking the āno holds barredā tactic because one of said parents whined that we werent communicating (when weād offered to answer questions and then didnt) and then didnt respond when we offered to make the document until pressed
So now they get the firehose :)
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good luck buddy 
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Been with my grandmother since yesterday, seems like each time this year weāve been with her, Iāve just felt gradually more off. Definitely donāt have the connection with my extended family that I used to. This also comes not too long after an unrelated moment a few days ago which, while not bad or traumatizing or whatnot, ended up feeling somewhat weird hours after it happened, and Iāve felt very uncertain of who to talk to about it.
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