So I guess we're all good now. Recruiter messaged back saying it was a great reference.
HR rang to let me know my start date and time, and what to expect on my first day.
It's done.
Thank you everyone for all your help and support ❤️❤️❤️
Now I'm going to give the cat a shit load of treats, and enjoy some video games without feeling guilty because I should be applying for jobs.
It's been a huge learning experience the last 6 months. I won't be forgetting the lessons any time soon.
FUCK YESSS!!!! YOU DID IT! EVERYONE HERE IS AMAZING! AHHHHHH!!!
YOU DID IT! 🙌🙌 YOU DESERVE ALL THE GOOD THINGS!!! AHHHH!
Yay!! Congrats!
Woo hoo!
That’s awesome to hear it’s all been sorted now!
Treat yourself as well!
Well done man, you deserve it! You worked so hard to get this, congratulations 👏🎉
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ yay!!!! More treats for the fluffy butt family!!!!! That's well deserved. You worked bloody hard
Congratulations 🎉
So many hugs
You deserve this. 😘
Huzzah!!! 🎉🍾🥂
That's great news and I'm so glad things have worked out
Reference has been given. Sounds like it went well! Thanks again to the poster here who was able to help me with that. Very much in their debt.
Now I'll get a call from the recruiter later today or tomorrow which will give me the final word that we are all a go for next week.
Fingers crossed!
Edit: I send the recruiter a text to "touch base" and she said it was a great reference!!!
Thank you to the person who gave it this morning ❤️
I'm going to pretend everything is fine for next week. HR rang me yesterday letting me know who to meet and at what time.
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You got this!!!
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Good to hear dude, keep us all posted!
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Woo I passed my CASPer test which means I should be transferring into Bachelor of Education by next semester!
Like Casper the ghost?
Children Aren't Sexy Permit
Some scenario based test to determine if youre not a sociopath. Had to record myself answering and everything.
I’m on lunch and looked that up to amuse myself - some of those scenarios are really tricky.
Well done you!
Thanks. I had COVID when I did it too so I was super glad I managed to get through it all.
Medical procedures, vomiting, death mention
This is great… I’m now vomiting liquid more frequently, cold all the time, getting dehydrated and sleeping a lot. My stomach is slowly shutting down and my doctor is telling me that I’m at risk of sudden death from malnutrition.
I’ve been trying to get a feeding tube for a while but the medical system is very slow and obstructive so I have a weird sense that I possibly might not make it.
so many hugs
are you able to go to emergency and be admitted to hospital?
This... it sucks but when the slow grind fails ER can express route
That’s the plan. I’ve done so before but didn’t get the procedure so I may need to keep returning
That's terrifying and I'm so sorry you're going through that. I hope things improve and you have naught to fear. Sending my love and good vibes💜
I’m so sorry. That sounds awful. I really hope that things improve. I know it’s cliche, and easier said than done, but staying positive and hopeful can help with coping and recovering from medical issues. You can get through this. DT needs you, stay strong.
Take care Melbaboutown -hugs- really hope you will recover soon, please do let us know if you also need anything too.
Happy Go-Live day folks! A project that should've taken max 3 weeks but ended up taking closer to 3 months is finally going in today. Threatened my team that if they bring up one more "Oh, BTW I just thought of X" in front of the vendor the next thing I deliver for them will be a resignation letter. I'm joking, but not really. I no longer care if we deliver the most broken thing in the world, I just want it off my damn plate.
This is how I left Sammi earlier...
Beautiful. I love it when they're a soft sleepy potato
Cosy fluff muffin 🧡
That is so cute!
Oh my goodness!!!!
Mr Woof working on his turndown service
What a blessing!
such a cheeky boy, I love him 💖
Oh he's precious!
Just so long as he doesn't leave a chocolate drop on the pillow ...
Getting a hang of waking up early again. Up at 7am today and didn't go back to sleep. Just have to keep it up for another few days and I'll be set for next week.
Fuck yeahhhhh! Ah I'm so excited for you!!
It’s for good reasons, woohoo! The body will get used to it, and we are past the solstice so sunrise is a tiny bit earlier each day which will make it easier too.
I hope you're stronger than me and can keep it going. I could never get up at a consistent time
I have no choice basically lol
When I got up at 6am the other day, I was an utterly useless zombie. Can't be having that next week.
I did not expect my lovely little trip to feature a visit to urgent care, but here we are. After vomiting all day they've given me anti-nausea stuff. Hopefully I can actually enjoy the rest of the trip!
Hope the problem clears up soon!
I missed your last comment, so I thought you were talking about a different type of trip. In any case, I hope you recover quickly and are able to enjoy the rest of your trip!!
Hope you get better soon . Lots of hugs.
Just went through the performance discussion and I still have my job. It just seems like I'll be getting around on 1 HP at work for a while.
My biggest hope is nothing else happens any time soon as it will be too many mistakes close together. I think I'm going to work on getting out of here and at least this allows me to leave on my own terms.
I'm sorry to hear it mate. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens until you've made a decision on whether or not to move on.
I'll take things slow and check my work more before sending it off to other people. The work from home here is great but there isn't much scope to learn because everyone who built the stuff I work on has left.
Lets hopeI can get a 6 month run of things going smoothly to serve as a soft reset if I don't move on before then
Omfg the amount of bloatware on this laptop is insane! Windows really is just bloat at this point. It reminds me of when I was younger and used to have a cheap shitty Optus/Telstra phone they probably sold as a loss leader. They used to come with sooo much bloatware. Even the cheap Samsung's used to.
But seriously. No I don't fucking want Norton, LinkedIn, candy crush, Microsoft maps, or Facebook. God. And everything is so pushy, why can't it be quiet bloatware.
Open edge
Search for chrome
"There's no need to switch to another browser! Edge performs better."
Close popup
Go to the download chrome page
"Microsoft edge performs up to 3x faster than >google chrome!"
Close popup
Download chrome
Open chrome
"Installer error! Failed with error code 57"
Norton popup: "we found a threat on your device! But don't worry. We blocked it."
I NEVER WANTED NORTON OR EDGE I JUST WANT CHROOOOOOOMEEEEEEEEEEEE. FUCK. OFF
this was also after about 15 minutes of trying to figure out how to fuck all the Microsoft garbage off and just use a local account.
And now:
MSI Centre popup: "Have you backed up your system?"
NO I HAVEN'T BACKED UP MY FUCKING SYSTEM THERE'S NOTHING TO BACKUP YET YOU DONKEY! I HAVENT EVEN INSTALLED CHROME YET!!!
Imo, reinstall the LTSC version of windows and dual boot Mint.
Shame they didn't get you a mac.
And Firefox not Chrome.
Idk what LTSC is, but I think I've gotten rid of all the bloat now. Not really interested in Linux on this laptop. Also chrome, not Firefox.
On the way home from tennis. I gave myself two options: 1. Take PT home and order delivery or 2. Take a cab home and make food instead. I did neither, took PT home and will make food instead of ordering in. Go me!
Update: it just arrived. I checked the tracking at 7:18 and it was still saying ready for processing so I went to the kitchen to grab some cheeky ice cream, and then there was a surprise knock on my door! Delivered at 7:21, and after double checking the tracking they've retroactively marked it as on board for delivery in Tullamarine at 7:12 (definitely wasn't there before). I'm a lot more than 8 minutes from tullamarine. I'll be honest - I jumped when I heard the knock. And yes, it came through startrack not auspost (although in my mind they're still the same thing)
Not complaining though, that was bloody efficient. I mean look at this!
New laptop day though!
What kind of laptop did you get? I want to get one for school bc my current one won't work without being plugged in lol. Still technically a laptop, but not portable haha
I got an MSI Thin A15 "gaming" laptop. I specifically went with this one as it seemed to be the best at that price point and had a dedicated graphics card.
Although it's a "gaming" laptop, I fully intend on rocking this to school. I'll turn off the RGB keyboard, and maybe tape an apple logo over the main one (although it's not RGB and fairly discreet) or something. It's got a metal case and full size HDMI out + ethernet, so I don't see why you couldn't rock it to school. Then again I have a friend whose school only permits MacBooks, even though they aren't school provided or managed. So I guess YMMV
Honestly this weather is so fucking shit. Literally have not left the house today and frankly it's probably going to stay that way.
it's fucking freezing
so I will be staying home tomorrow sewing
I've been walking around with my shirt on inside out. I'm not changing it because that would be unlucky.
The fairies will not be able to find you. Always supposing that you want them to find you.
That variety of Fae are not cute and should not be taunted. If you don’t own a ring stone And a see something weird get drunk!
Anti-gratitude thread >:(
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Friend from uni cancelled on me and the reason was because something minor came up apparently. Didn't say what. Last time we were meant to catch up, they hadn't even left the house and were half an hour away at the time we were supposed to meet, so I told them we can reschedule. I have cancelled on them last minute before as well, but this is not the only time they've done it. Time to find alternative social arrangements for this week, because I will go insane without seeing people.
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I think the weight I've gained, in an attempt to gain muscle, is just belly fat
I understand about the weight thing. For me, it generally works out to about 50/50 muscle and fat. Just wish getting musclier didn't have to involve getting a belly.
you need a solid foundation for a strong building, keep at it.
I hate that I'm not a morning person at all and it's cold today. I felt it outside and now I'm going to defrost.
Every time I sneeze it hurts.
My knees ache in all positions
I'm coming back for round 2.
My shoulders are a little sore and I'm starting to get a headache now which I hope doesn't turn into a migraine.
I hate dropping my kids off at childcare. They cry when I leave and I feel like I'm turning my back on them. I want to have them at home but I can't give them the attention they need and work at the same time.
I hate this performance meeting I have coming up. The way it makes me feel and it's such a big deal over something so small. No one has been hurt and the business hasn't even lost money. There are things I could do better but everything feels so insignificant in comparison.
It really bugs me how I never see my MIL in the morning when we're getting the kids ready. We live in the same house and she knows the schedule, why do I never see her when we're trying to wrangle two kids out the door before work?
Ungrateful for my body clock waking me up at 3am and not getting back to sleep.
My team getting the scraps at work.
My hearing still being fucked.
I am ungrateful for my heater and TV remotes being on adjacent IR channels. Not near enough to mess with the settings, just cause incessant beeping while looking for something to watch.
I've gained about 10kg, after all the work and exercise I did, and have a fat belly now and I'm depressed about it. Why are cakes so nice? Why is tiramisu so damn tasty? I seem to have to exercise like a maniac in order to indulge in a miserly stingy little bit of cheesecake, which makes me even more depressed, it's barely fucking worth it! So I'm watching my food intake, avoiding high fat and high sugar foods and I'm fucking miserable.
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Been trying to teach myself how to make a business website using Wordpress, because I can't really afford to pay someone thousands to do it for me. Thought it would be easy to figure out for someone with slightly above average IT skills, but it's really not. Now I realise why people pay professionals for Wordpress websites.
Using a theme as a base is the way to go for a beginner like me, but so many of the free themes on offer are so template-y looking with zero design flair. I'd start with a basic theme thinking I could make it look good, only to realise that I can't and the customisation level is so limited (or I can't figure out how to make larger customisations).
Now after days of searching, I've found a nice looking theme that seems user friendly to work with. Starting all over again with customising it. Hope this one works.
You can use a plugin like Elementor or Visual Composer to jazz up your layout. Inside Wordpress you can change colours and a bit of the appearance, but you're limited to blog style text block layouts unless you know how to go deep with HTML and CSS.
Plugins let you make those nice landing pages where you can really make a website your own.
Oh this is helpful, I’ll try out Elementor. I’ve been going to the website view inside Wordpress, clicking edit header / edit page and trying to make changes that way. But it’s really limited in what I can change. Any layout change with a theme block is basically a no go, so I’ve been trying to find a theme with the best layout possible that I don’t need to fiddle around with too much.
Lol, MIL isnt feeling great, so drinks are off and games are on.
Straightened my hair for nothing. I never straighten my hair, usually just leave it bushy, or under a beanie. Bleh.
Maybe I'll try and convince my better-half of a pub meal. I haven't eaten all day.
All done with my meetings for today. Sadly there has been a casualty though as I somehow tore a big hole in one of my pairs of Melbourne Storm bamboo cotton boxers. Not where you'd think either.. it's almost up near my left hip. Anyways RIP boxers, you touched me in tender places and held me close.
It embraced you during your hardest times, RIP
Ahh... I've been feeding Melbcat lots of treats to keep her appetite up and her tummy lined, and they contain sugar in the form of molasses. At the vet I saw some redness on her gums and tartar on her teeth. I wonder how far I'd get with brushing them.
Unfortunately there aren't very many other treats she can have.
I’m not sure you can realistically start brushing teeth as an adult. Like bathing, start them tiny or wear chainmaile
If she likes them and it keeps her happy then there’s nothing wrong with it, and don’t worry about teeth. At some stage in a pets life the long term impact vs quality of life balance is in favour of just keeping them happy. No point saving her teeth if that means she is miserable for the rest of her days? Our dog made it to 15 eating all sorts of things that were theoretically bad for him, with only 3 vet dental cleans over the years. He had a very happy life, no teeth brushing and no regrets.
“Hey siri, is it going to rain today?” “No. Rain is not expected today. It will be cloudy with a top of x”
That lying fucker.
Apple ain't shit.
I wish there is a product where it combines the responsiveness, seamlessness and app integrations of Siri with the data sources of Google Assistant, that is available on iPhone 13.
Most of the time I just use it to message my wife and set timers while driving.
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On GA, doing things is hit or miss, sometimes it confirms the action without actually doing anything. Sometimes it's able to tell me the dates of the Antipodes Festival and what time Kenangan is closing. Sometimes it just goes "sorry I don't understand" for every single command that's not related to navigation.
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On Siri, if it understands my words then it reliably gets work done and quickly. But it refuses to answer any factual questions while driving.
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Another speeding fine. I may strangle him.
Update: it pretty much turned out to be option 1. I did manage to sleep in for about 30 minutes longer than my usual time, but since I could've gotten 3.5 hours more than usual and I'm still feeling tired (but can't get back to sleep), I'm calling that option 1
@[email protected] here is your prize for winning - a giant emoji! Although you probably need to zoom out to figure out what it is
Aww thanks!
So my replacement laptop is coming today (possibly). They had an option I've never seen before - "Australia Post next day evening (6-9pm)". I decided to go with this one instead of express post, because surprisingly it was actually a dollar cheaper. Apparently this is part of some service called Australia Post metro express, or possibly startrack courier (both things I never knew existed). The shipping info said they did the pre lodgement at 1pm, and apparently it WILL arrive within the next 4 hours.
I'm really sceptical, because since when do Australia Post do after hours delivery, and half the time their next day shipping doesn't even happen. But I will update you all later. If it actually does arrive, then I'm going to think I'm in a dream
Any luck?
Not yet. It still says it's ready for processing. But the website says it's at Tullamarine (my local delivery centre). Guess it depends how late they're deliver.
I hope they don't deliver it tomorrow though, because I'm out all day and don't want to go to the post office
MWave still hasn't sent my GPU. I ordered it 2 days ago. And I paid like 20 bucks to have it express posted so I'd get it before weeks end, but it doesn't seem like that's going to be happening. Bloody rude.
Edit: when I was swapping out the ram, I did properly look at the GPU and figured out why it sounds like a helicopter. This would be why:
I thought it was just a bent blade. But nah. The wifi card absolutely fucked the blade
Edit: they just emailed me to say apparently they no longer have any stock, so they're ordering more from the supplier and expect it to arrive between Tuesday and Friday (next week!). I specifically checked stock, and they said they had it in stock at their little warehouse. Fucking grubs took so long sending out my order, they ran out of stock!
Unfortunately if they're slow with dealing with completing orders, express postage isn't going to speed it up until it's finally been sent. Can be frustrating though :(
It's coming from Sydney, and I wanted it before next week, which is why I paid for the express postage. I wasn't aware they were slow with dispatching orders until I'd already paid, unfortunately
Mwave are always pretty slow. Probably the worst for it
There's a reason Nvidia and AMD are the biggest sellers of GPUs, but they're also more exxy 😭
Reddit seems to agree. Should've googled first :|
So tomorrow I don't have anything happening until the early afternoon. That means I can have the sleep in I feel like I needed a week ago. But since I can get so much more sleep than normal, what do we think is going to happen?
- I wake up at my usual time and can't get back to sleep
- Every single person I've ever met starts trying to call, text, and email me out of absolutely nowhere. That random inquiry I sent to a shop 7 months ago they ignored will finally be responded to
- Someone will knock at the door
- I can't sleep at all until 30 minutes before I need to wake up
- I actually do manage to get a good sleep and finally catch up on my sleep debt
Place your bets now! In 6-12 hours, I'll respond to the winner(s). I don't know what you win yet, I'm fresh out of barnstars from the last comp, but maybe you can have a giant emoji
My money is on number 4 but I hope it's 5 🤞🏻
Being pessimistic - 1 and 3. Five buck saver on 4. Hope it's 5 though.
Going for 2 since it hasn't been taken yet.
Thankfully not this time, but I was really tired last week the day after I got back (nerves and all meant I only got 3 hours of sleep) and I dared to take a nap from 11-12. I received a ton of emails, multiple messages, and a couple of phone calls. Nobody said a single thing to me before nap time, and only 1 person actually responded to my response the rest of the day
4
My bet's on 4, but I'm hoping for 5
The best indicator for who will be president in America is, in my opinion, the betting markets. At this point they are basically the collective opinion of people who make money predicting these things based on all available evidence. Currently Trump is about a four to one favourite to win according to this indicator. Pretty amazing
Currently Trump is about a four to one favourite to win according to this indicator
I don't bet/gamble and have no idea what this means lol I have never understood the betting ratio thing "2 to 1". Like, is that in favour of trump or against? No clue lol.
I think when it's phrased like that, it means in favour of whoever was mentioned. Based on the phrasing, I take it the consensus is that for every 4 people who like (or perhaps bet?) on Trump, 1 likes (or bets) on Biden. I think
I think people put too much stock in the "assassignation attempt = win" idea though. There are a whole bunch of things that were always considered to be true about US politics that Trump has proven to not actually be the case - a few years ago it would have been considered a rule of politics that someone who was even accused of a crime, suspected of sexual assaults etc. would never be able to win an election. Trump has broken all the "rules" so far, I don't think this is any different.
Woke up really cold in the early hours. Blanket was down at the end of the bed so mystery solved. (I have doona + blanket on cold nights) Pulled it up again but tossed and turned since then. Might as well embrace it and call it wake up time now.
Great, now my body thinks I want to be awake at 4am. Ffs.
It was 530 for me. 30 minutes earlier than normal, but still.
At least I'm refreshed.
Technically I was awake at 3am, and got out of bed at 3:45am when I realized I couldn't get back to sleep.
Not ideal, not cool lol
Slow, slow start to the morning. I told work I might get a bit done today but unlikely to be a full day and I wouldn't push myself. I'm kind of over lounging around on the couch watching TV all day (got through two seasons of Slow Horses yesterday).
Shitty sleep last night, sweated right though everything again :( so first port of call today, after a slow shower, was to get my big blanket washed at the laundromat. Coordinated nicely between that, picking up work laptop, taking a load of clothes washed at home, drying everything at the laundromat (might as well), food pickup in st kilda and a load of thermals at home.
Going round doing shit today has me feeling better. The sun is helping heaps. After lunch I'll do some light work until I can't. My bedroom feels like Sickness Central since that's where I've been feeling the shittiest, so it's getting aired out today in addition to a change of bedclothes. I hope the worst is over >:(
TAFE orientation done. Should I have a nap, or power through? MIL arrives from WA today and said to partner something about drinks tonight. I don't know if I'll make it if I don't nap, but I don't want to mess up my sleep cycle much more.
Ugh! I type this all out while making a coffee 😑
Made it down the Bellarine on PT. Bus dude was throwing down some Bowie - Let's dance.. which brings us to a Rave choon
decaf has been had
think I'll do a green curry for dinner tonight 😋
Gratitude thread :)
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Grateful for my aunt saying, "When one door closes, another one opens. You're not locked in a room forever."
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spent probably seven hours playing Stardew Valley yesterday and enjoyed myself. But not spending that long again.
Grateful for the help of people here in securing my new role!
solid coffee this morning. Loved it.
I really like the community on here. It's a great place to hang out and I like keeping up with what everyone else is doing. I usually have a personal policy of not putting anything on the internet but here is just the right size and feels private enough I like commenting.
I can blow my nose without surgery pain.
Grateful for a good night sleep and pleasant trip into the office
Grateful to yesterday's me for doing meal prep. Both breakfast and lunch were very yummy, and I have the same again tomorrow.
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Rang Tenants Vic for last night's issue.
Amongst many things, these two stood out:
- Under RTA S72 Was told that rental provider must repair within 48 hours
- Under RTA S67 quiet enjoyment of premises, and that I should be able to use all facilities and rooms to full extent.
But I couldn't find anything written to support the "48 hours" figure and the "full extent" statement that I could refer to in the next email, any idea?
Agent pushed back saying it's normal for the switch to trip if we overload the circuit lol. No shit. But if the apartment's power is cut off from an outside switchboard that only owners corp can access... gotta wait 3 days for someone to come and fix it.
And for clarity:
- Switchboard inside apartment: Oven, hot water, and I think the stove are on their own circuits. No idea where the bathroom heater is wired up to.
- From outside of the apartment: aircon on one "line", oven/hot water/stove/bathroom heater on another, other outlets on another.
- Using oven/hot water/stove/heater together apparently cuts the power to the whole apartment from outside, but from what I can gather, we would be fine using a smaller combination of the above, our own portable heaters and aircon together lol.
Woke up with a blocked ear. 10m concentrated hot water flush, still blocked. Half way into tram ride to work, magical unblock 💪👌
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋Beef & Guiness pie please
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May I please have a fisherman's basket with extra crumbed prawns, and a slice of cake for morning tea.
🐟🦀🐙🦞🦐🦪🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🛢️🍤🍰
Ooh I made it just in time today! I'll get a bowl of pho please
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Have come home hungry so I made peanut butter toast.
Came back annoyed from work because I think someone went through my drawers for a stapler which I’ll double check tomorrow morning when I get in.
I will be confronting this person and telling them that going through my office drawers was inappropriate and violated my personal space.
I don’t understand why people don’t know boundaries.
Would that be personal office space? 🫥 🔥
Yes and any of my personal possessions that I store in my drawers.
It makes me angry.
“Handpuppets! I’m going to pick a clowns nose, eat elephant peanuts and fight Bert and Ernie…. to the death”
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Scary movie review part II
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
I forgotted the most important part of my review.
This movie tells teens they have the ability and innate psychological strength to face adversity and that they don't need protecting from stories about tragedy and trauma and that facing trauma is a part of healing.
