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It did very accurately document the number of times I woke up due to a cat standing on my face.

Not long after I wrote this, Pixel stood on my desk, pushed his wet nose into my ear and purred as an indication he wanted feeding. Terrible creatures.

I have one that will walk over to a plant and fake bite the leaf, just hold it between his teeth, while giving me the side-eye. He also knows how to unplug my hub on my desk, thus turning off my screens, mic, and camera.

There's a castle for sale up the road from me. If I had 2.5 million I'd totally buy it and live a lush reclusive life surrounded by cats. As it is, I try to live a reclusive life surrounded by cats in my 3-bed terrace, but people keep making me travel to meetings.

I've ordered some "minimalist light up rattan cones", three stars on sticks, two mini fake trees on sticks, and lights for the window. Hopefully they will arrive before I'm deemed anti-Christmas.

I'm heading home tomorrow I'm afraid, there's a bunch of the team going though.

Returning to my room encountered teams from various other countries. I'm right near the Olympic Park so I'm assuming they are all here for this deaflympics2025-games.jp/en/#gsc.tab=0

TPAC seemed a bit odd this year, mostly due to the venue, lots of separate break rooms made it hard to catch up with people. Had some good conversations and resolved a few multicol issues though.

This is why I have a Masters in International Journalism, which has mostly just resulted in making it harder to get a Chinese visa.

When I was a student I taught ballet and tap to 20+ of that age group. Complete chaos. Herding cats is easier.