Work stress and furniture

[ljwrites]

My current interminable work assignment is draining the soul out of me. Like I need the work and am grateful to have it, but also just ughhh. I'm just barely keeping myself functioning by mainlining the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, plus all kinds of music from my collections that I haven't browsed in a while.

Another way I'm relieving stress is by obsessing about furniture of all things, specifically a new desk that'll replace my current one which has been oversized ever since I changed things around to a split-desk layout for more comfortable seating. Changing the furniture is one of those middle-aged female coping mechanisms I didn't understand when I was younger, along with a taste for trashy drama about getting comeuppance in the face of unjust family situations. I'm turning into my mom in my middle age and I guess that's not a bad thing lol.

Comments

[loopy777]

Ooh, new desk! I think when I replaced my old one, my new one was about a quarter of the weight, and both are mostly made of particle-board. It's amazing how big our desks needed to be in The Time Before.

[ljwrites]

Yeah all our references were physical and there was handwriting going on! Now that I no longer keep monitors on my desk (one is a television across the room and the other is pole-mounted) all I need is space for my keyboard and like one book at a time. My husband, on the other hand, has a classically-sized desk overflowing with physical books and notes.