Hillary M

Hillary M

@hillarym.bsky.social

Sorta-chemist and spreadsheet bitch in the streets, stays up too late reading in the sheets. I lost on Jeopardy! She/her

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Tell me why I work with people who are theoretically grown ass adults, yet someone signed their paperwork with a drawing of a dick?

Inktober Days 21-24: Hero, Beacon, Dapper, and Bake. Friday I got home late and fell asleep before I could draw anything, so I decided to merge that theme with the next one.

Inktober is back! I finally got some art pens after doing these with just a regular pen for ages. Themes are Apple, Relic, Miniature, and Cactus. #inktober2026

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#Inktober Days 17-20: Contraption, Flightless, Confused, and Lounge. Looking up reference pics yesterday made me start wanting a fainting couch. I don’t need one and I don’t have anywhere to put one, but they’re just so pretty.

I’m so freaking tired because I didn’t get to take a nap this morning after the kid got on the bus, and now I’m at my mammogram appointment, and I’m heading straight to work from here. 😭

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Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.

Inktober is back! I finally got some art pens after doing these with just a regular pen for ages. Themes are Apple, Relic, Miniature, and Cactus. #inktober2026

Days 5-8: Smack, Ogre, Panic, and Stinky. Last year I drew Shrek when the theme was onion, so obviously I had to flip it this year.

Two weeks ago my boss was out sick the whole week. Last week the other asst left early on Thursday to go to a concert and then called out Friday because she was tired and not feeling well. Yesterday she went home sick and won’t be in today. All 100% legit reasons to miss work, but I’m so, so tired.

I wish I knew what I did to thoroughly fuck up my shoulder. It was a little bit sore at work, but by the time I went to the grocery around 6:30 I could barely lift my arm to hold the steering wheel. Really hope it fixes itself overnight so I don’t have to go out in the storm to hit urgent care.

I’m half asleep at work, my boss is out sick, and all three of our compressed gas canisters ran out over the weekend. I hate changing them. Gonna pout about it for a while and then I guess I’ll go take care of them.

Who's the most chaotic choice to give the One Ring to?

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

Who's the most chaotic choice to give the One Ring to? (it might be less fun for her if you just GIVE it to her though)

TFW you wake up randomly in the middle of the night, but joke’s on you, your alarm goes off two minutes later because school started and it’s actually morning. And I usually nap after the kid gets on the bus, but I have an appointment to get bloodwork done before work so I have to stay awake. 😭

I finished all of my big summer regulatory projects yesterday and now have fuck-all to do at work. It’s nice to get a break from spreadsheets but now I’m bored and just want to go home, but I can’t because I still have to stay on top of emails.

Love to wake up to a burning smell and find a spot of scorched carpet next to my bed from a charging cable that decided to melt overnight. Really gets the blood and adrenaline pumping! Can this fucking week just end already?

Long birthday weekend is off to a good start. I got a pretty good night sleep, got in and out of the DMV to renew my license in 20 minutes, and went to the fancy bakery around the corner to pick up a croissant and cookie to eat for lunch later.

I woke up at 5 am to pee like usual, and I don’t need to actually be up for the day yet, but I can’t fall back asleep because the kid was binging Pokemon last night and the theme song won’t stop running through my head. All I want to catch right now is some more zzzs. 😭

I’m so burned out and can’t see any way out. My dept was short-handed for weeks due to vacations and my boss’s dad dying. We’re mostly back to full-staffed, but there are so many things that only I know how to do. My boss has always been useless but now he has an excuse so I can’t even be mad.

The VP I worked very closely with also passed away unexpectedly. He did the work of 3-4 people and no one has really replaced him, so we’re scrambling to cover everything. I spend so much time explaining basic concepts to people who are trying to help but have no idea how anything works.

I would love to take time off to decompress but even leaving a little early one day last week and coming in a little late a couple of other days had me buried in catch-up work. I’m so fucking tired.

I cannot WAIT for the kiddo to be done with school so I can get some sleep. Her last regular day is next Monday, and then she has a couple days off before finals. Mercifully no regents tests this year, but she has the SAT on Saturday. I am TIRED.

Y’all. I thought I’d unpacked all my books a while back. They weren’t all going to fit on my bookcases so I just piled them up on the shelves until I have time to sort them. I’m finally unpacking another area and found 6 more boxes of books, not counting a box of plays I knew was in that pile. 😭😭😭😭😭

Also a couple tubs of old clothing, which I had thought was all in the spare bedroom upstairs. I was already planning to work on sorting it all for donations but I guess that project just got bigger. FML

I feel like I’m screaming into the void at work this week. I know my emails are going out, but people keep ignoring them. I’m literally telling you people exactly what’s going on and you’re freaking out because you’re not reading!

Gotta love a surprise FDA inspection when the new person with the required certification is out sick and I’m the closest thing we have to a backup. I’m glad they’re still doing inspections! I just didn’t really want it to be my problem. 😭

I finished a round of prednisone and the good news is that I can breathe again, but I’m so tired. I just want to take a nap, but instead work keeps throwing weird shit at me.

The main bands shifted just to the east, so we got a pretty low amount of snow. I guess I have to go to work after all, but my street hasn’t been plowed yet so I might just wait until after lunch. There won’t be much to do today anyway, even though no one else in my department can make it in.

Sitting here at work with “Dance 10, Looks 3” from A Chorus Line stuck in my head even though I think I last watched that movie in the 90s. Why, brain? Why the tits and ass song? 🤣

I caught a cold from my kid and feel like crap, but my coworker already called out so I have to go in. She’s been feeling kinda crappy so she could legit be sick, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if she was just hung over from the game last night. Oh to be young!