Melbourne

So part of my job, I have to like... cold email business so they can join the website my work looks after. And I've been emailing back and forth with this one guy for almost a month now. Even called him a few times to talk, and yesterday someone bought a particular spot that this other guy was asking about.

And obviously we can't promise spots, it's like a first in best dressed situation. So this one business buys the spot, and we let him know that the spot he wanted is taken but if he wants to be in another spot we're happy to do that.

But he emails back like pretty much entitled af like "I don't want to be in a spot below this small business. My business is this big and and we have this many things" and I've emailed back like "sorry dude. Payment went through, this spot is great take it".

This arsehole just went and replied all (his associate was in the email as well) but said "hi associates name" and pretty much said like "I don't want to be in a lower spot compared to this smaller business. I don't want to work with them (meaning the business that my work looks after) if this is how they conduct business".

Such a fucking arsehole. Like it's so demeaning to this other business just because they're not as "big" as his business, and again, we can't promise a spot. He's dicked us around and wasted our time for almost a month, like... Ugh.

Once again, a much longer day than intended, but I just want to mention this extremely, extremely lucky but cheeky situation that made the drive home slightly less painful:

I promise I'll never do it again 🙇 hopefully this is the last peak hour drive I have to do out west. I don't know how people do this daily

Only Murders in the Building is so amazing. It's my new comfort watch.

My housemate is complaining about how the Sportsbet ads followed him back to India. Betting is also completely illegal over there.

I am genuinely devastated about the allegations against Lizzo, I always believe the victims in stuff like this and I'm so sad that someone who was supposed to represent light, positivity and body positivity could be so horrible, she really meant a lot to me. I can only hope that somehow these allegations aren't true but I'm so sad for the victims as well. I've been crying on and off since finding out.

"Drinks anyone? Drinks 🍷 🥂 🍺 🍸 🍹 🧃 🍺 🍵 🧉 🥤 🥃 "

Says I. As I juggle a water and a coconut water to the coffee table all for myself, where there's already an emptied mug of water with lemon slices. Do we all suffer from table full o' beverage holders syndrome?

New brushes have been attained. I need new ones because I use small ones now and the only 2 I had were getting worn out. As a beginner I would use big brushes and do big characters, now I do small characters. ( small is more difficult ) . This is a good thing. 😊

I also went to a little gallery and saw some lovely work. There was a water colour of a kookaburra and some really good scrolls of ancient Chinese script.

Ah Melbourne traffic...

This morning I almost got done by a muppet running a red light.

Also this morning, I witnessed a semi trailer tailgating a car... literally like 1.5 meters (less than 1 second) at 100kmh, as well as a few near misses, on the Eastlink.