Deirdre

“25 per cent of people surveyed had considered resigning due to mental pressure at work, 57 per cent said they drink after the workday to cope, and 14 per cent said they drink during it.”
― Leena Norms, Half-Arse Human: How to Live Better Without Burning Out

“It’s in the paper. They’re not allowed to print it if it isn’t true. Everybody knows that.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Deccie Must Die

“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’* sounds wonderful, but I bet you’ve never squinted to read the small print: * ‘Apply to do what you love and end up spending most of your day doing stuff you don’t love but is tangentially connected to the thing that you once loved, and also feel disheartened at the thought that you now know the inner workings of the industry that upholds the thing you once loved and can see all the ways the thing is being ruined by soggy systems and rotten rails.”
― Leena Norms, Half-Arse Human: How to Live Better Without Burning Out

“Studies have shown that, especially after the sort of disrupted night of sleep that makes you turn to coffee immediately after you rise, coffee on an empty stomach followed by breakfast decreases our chance of being able to metabolise the glucose in our food by around 50 per cent. When we can’t process glucose properly, it ends up being released into our blood all at once, rather than slowly being released by our liver over a longer period of time.”
― Leena Norms, Half-Arse Human: How to Live Better Without Burning Out