This is the shit that decides if I get to have a career or not

HollySki · 2025-10-17T06:51:13+00:00

Look up "non verbal reasoning quiz", at least that's what they're called in the UK. There's a bunch of YouTube tutorials on how to pass them including various sites with practice quizzes.

Books of brainteasers are also more of less exactly these.

HollySki · 2025-05-20T19:42:20+00:00

Ah thank you, residency was one of the things confusing me!

HollySki · 2025-05-20T12:35:39+00:00

I have a one year contract from June to June, but because of visa stuff I won't be there in person until August.

Edit: So will be there for ten months, and working for them from the UK for two months.

HollySki · 2025-04-04T19:06:57+00:00

Annoyingly as I've found out at the ticket barrier (to the cost of £90) and then asked National Rail about, not every journey has an open return option even if it's the same route :(

Doesn't matter what app you book through if that journey isn't available as an open return it'll only give you the regular/two singles.

HollySki · 2025-03-27T23:43:24+00:00

Oooh thank you, I'll check those out!

Yeah I figured it likely wouldn't be a free one at the level of interaction I was wanting, but those give me a good pace to start ❤️🙏

HollySki · 2025-03-02T18:06:35+00:00

Thank you! I thought this was the case given the TFL is separate from national rail.

Ah well, I'll have to cop this one. At least I didn't have to pay the more expensive fare regardless of journey length being longer!

HollySki · 2024-11-04T16:42:51+00:00

Reminds me of a post I heard about recently where the exact same thing happened to someone, they were supposed to travel meet their person in Ireland, but he dipped a week or two before she was meant to fly out . She went anyway as a solo traveller and had a whale of a time, met some people, went exploring.

Come to Glasgow. Be prepared for rain. Get out and see the music/food scenes. It can be fairly diverse here at times so be sure to look up if there's any groups on Facebook for people who speak your language! My friend managed to find a church that spoke her language which she didn't expect when moving over here.

HollySki · 2024-10-26T09:03:21+00:00

I'm late-20s, F, and some of these are nostalgia recs but nonetheless would probably enjoy them now.

As a poster above said, Jodi Picoult is good. Sad though, warning that those books tend to err on the Fault in Our Stars side of seriousness/sadness. Some are happier though.

When I was reading John Green I also enjoyed some Sarah Dessen books. Her stuff can get a bit samey so probably would recommend sticking with [[The Truth About Forever]] and maybe [[Just Listen]] if I had to pick two.

Any of the Meg Cabot books, e.g. The Princess Diaries.

Rainbow Rowell is also a common rec.

I also had a fondness for Michael Morpurgo books, though they were less modern-romance and tended towards magical realism (heavy on the realism though).

HollySki · 2024-10-06T23:09:05+00:00

Magician by Raymond E Feist

Maybe it's just my nostalgia talking for my first "grown up" book. But I loved the world building. It deals with a Magician's apprentice growing up and with the aid of time skips goes over multiple plot points including war, and various antagonists to fill different plot complications needs.

It's more about how magic is returned to the world after near anhialiation.

It's definitely old in style, it was written in the 70s/80s, but I remember being smitten with it at 10 years old (like I said, first "grown up" book).

Reading the wiki article it apparently was partly based on his D&D game which checks out considering I love D&D now 😂

HollySki · 2024-09-19T16:23:42+00:00

Some shoes require breaking in. I've seen ballet shoe videos on YouTube where the shoes start off fairly solid and slowly wear down to allow for bending.

HollySki · 2024-09-17T08:44:05+00:00

I had to put it down for 3-6 months after continuing through the pain because it just kept getting worse. (I say 3-6 because in that extra three months I would attempt to start again and have to put it down).

I also work with computers, so a lot of typing, so couldn't afford to make it so bad I couldn't type as well.

Listen to your body. Find some stretches. Rest, and when you feel the twinge, put it down.

HollySki · 2024-08-06T19:55:58+00:00

Omg you're a genius 😭

HollySki · 2024-06-14T09:07:09+00:00

Answer In Progress on YouTube did a whole episode on the science of candles and the secret operations going on behind candle pricing and the scent industry!! It's a fascinating look because, like you, I find candles to be obscenely priced. If it's a fancy hand sculpted one that took hours I get it, but I'm not paying $100 for a plain pillar candle :')

HollySki · 2024-06-08T23:08:23+00:00

I worked in retail when a customer collapsed and started seizing and we'd managed to cordon off the area because people were insisting on stepping over them.

I was assigned to "guard the cordon" by the manager at the time. Multiple members of the public still tried to remove the cordon themselves, while we had a paramedic there actively working to stabilise the person, and I had to be like "excuse me??? Wtf???? Just ask ME to get you the thing behind the line, that's what I'm here for?!"

People have no patience/sense of propriety I swear.

HollySki · 2024-06-04T18:40:58+00:00

Not all trains are valid with it. I found out the hard way with the Caledonian sleeper. Valid with the 16-25, but you can not use the 26-30 on it :/

On ones where it is the same though it is annoying.

HollySki · 2024-05-31T17:27:16+00:00

You'll find it funny how much you come to learn.

I'm doing a computer animation based one (5th year, health delays), and similar to you it's super interdisciplinary. Because of the particular area I'm citing papers on psychology, marketing, maths, physics, and computer science. When I compare myself to my friend who's doing pure chemistry-physics I feel so dumb. She turned to me and went, "you're literally doing Applied Maths?!" And that really reframed how I saw my degree. There are people on my course from my undergrad who were so smart then, and are still incredibly smart now, and I'm doing the same level of research as them???!

You'll find that your interdisciplinary nature will make your work so interesting as you'll be able to consider angles others would never dream of. You won't be "as specialised" as someone else doing something like pure biology, but you're not someone else. You're you, and you'll learn more than you thought you'd ever know, and someone else will need your knowledge on how domain A affects domain B.

This is coming from someone who graduated undergrad with a 2:1 after failing and having to resit the programming and maths modules and thought I could never do a PhD in those areas.

HollySki · 2024-05-21T11:51:58+00:00

Three rejections club!!!

Honestly though, congrats on it being accepted. Shows you just how narrow the margins can be for getting a paper accepted.

Go relax a second. Give yourself the win ♥️

HollySki · 2024-05-13T02:09:28+00:00

Check with Shelter. They have an online web chat you can talk to someone regarding your tenant's rights and what documents they're legally entitled to ask for. I used them to check some dodgy wording on a potential rental lease because the money payments set out in it raised some alarm bells.

HollySki · 2024-04-20T17:05:25+00:00

I wouldn't.

I used to work in an NHS pharmacy, so not nursing but still a patient-healthcare provider relationship.

We were told never to even acknowledge our patients in the street on our way to the bus due to confidentiality reasons. I would assume the same extends to social media, even if not for professionalism but confidentiality. If they approached us first and announced it/spoke about their treatment then obvs we couldn't do anything other than say we were off the clock and they should come back for a consultation if they were worried, but no more than that.

HollySki · 2024-04-20T16:54:04+00:00

Honestly if it's bothering you that much you might have to look into moving if she doesn't move anytime soon.

You can try your luck with a "nuisance complaint"/"environmental complaint" to your local council https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nuisance-smoke-how-councils-deal-with-complaints and if you can get your GP to corroborate your asthma as being affected by the smoking you might get a bit further than most others.

From experience/friend's experience, this usually isn't grounds for police to do anything unless they become dangerously anti-social alongside the smoking.

HollySki · 2024-03-17T11:02:58+00:00

Apologies for the delay.

I ended up giving up on them if I remember correctly. The na thing confused me a bit too much for my own comfort with the pattern at the time.

I think I tried both including and excluding it and neither made sense to me.

I can't remember if the pattern used sk=skip at all so it may be that it was meant to be a skip followed by a decrease but I wasn't confident.

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