Niki Cox-Miniea

I need a long no-responsibilities vacation like I need air, but it's not possible for the foreseeable future, and the burnout is intense. I need respite.

14.12.2024 02:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Could you please credit the original poster?

26.11.2024 01:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brick pavers and fresh gravel freshly installed today along a formerly muddy walkway

Brick pavers and fresh gravel freshly installed today along a formerly muddy walkway

Brick pavers and fresh gravel freshly installed today along a formerly muddy walkway

Brick pavers and fresh gravel freshly installed today along a formerly muddy walkway

I may not be mobile tomorrow. What gets my goat is that I only got 3700 steps on my watch after doing all of this and getting rid of a large squirrel cadaver after Miss Tillie dispatched it.

24.11.2024 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Institutional neutrality isn't what I thought it was As always, these things are complicated. Don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.

"...of particular concern as the [VP-elect Vance]... has declared that "professors are the enemy" and expressed admiration for... authoritarian Orban's] takeover of this country's universities..."

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

22.11.2024 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I swear, listening to my mom try to pronounce "pancreatitis" is akin to how people intentionally and progressively butcher Benedict Cumberbatch's name over the course of a paragraph. Or like a game of Telephone. Every iteration is a little further from the correct pronunciation.

21.11.2024 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alright, who had a Dr. Oz nomination on their Bingo card?

19.11.2024 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyway, it's reached a breakdown point where I'm at work and barely resisting the urge to cry. This is why we need social and community services. It's so easy for folks to fall in the cracks.

18.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*in the rain

And for clarification, she lives with me, and we're in a new town with my new job, and she's resisting asking people who've offered to help her do things like go to the senior center for lunch and to make friends outside of me. I'm the only child and grandchild, and I'm tired.

18.11.2024 21:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Pt 2) driving on the rain, getting breakfast, and the dozen other things on my mind, I simply forgot and found myself resenting the emotional labor of her expectations of me to be as accountable to her of my time at 41 as I was at 16)). She's struggling with ailing health, and me with burnout.

18.11.2024 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Caregiver burnout is very real. As I sit here in my office obsessing about an interaction with Mom this morning ("You were supposed to call me when you got safe to work and I didn't know if you were still alive" (I took a 30 minute detour beyond normal for a mammogram and, between (pt 2)

18.11.2024 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Why must you ruin such a cute photo i otherwise would have liked with that manipulative clickbait caption?

16.11.2024 02:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The correct version

16.11.2024 02:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have no idea why that photo loaded so wonky.

16.11.2024 02:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Between accosting visitors with kisses, watching Christmas trees go up, wishing I didn't have to work, and stealing ground chuck off the stove, Tillie's had a busy week.

16.11.2024 02:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0