Wednes Day Links

It’s Evolve-time at work. I’m sure if you work in a corporate-type situation this is the time of the year when you’ll need to review your objectives and goals from the beginning of the year (all those promises), discuss them with your manager (make excuses as to why they’re not done), and plead your case for a pay rise or bonus (begging). Where I work the process is called Evolve (I feel better already). 

Filling in the forms that need to be sent to HR take ages and everyone (it’s not just me) groans about it. Before we get going on the document, we must clean our desks (need a clean work surface), sort our filing (clean out that intray to make room for all that bon-us mon-ey), re-organising the stationery cupboard (ooo pink post its!)

You know, all those procrastinating habits born of years of studying for exams (who says school is a waste of time).

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Trouble is, after all your sorting and cleaning and paperclip-chain-making, you may still not be ready to start on the documenation. In that case, here are a few work(ish and a bit real-lifey) related links to read to avoid the evolving just a few more minutes and maybe even be a nicer work colleague.

• Unskilled and Unaware of It - How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
• 5 Strategies To Deal With A Horrible Co-Worker (Career Realism)
• 5 Top Things You Should Never Do At Work (LinkedIN)
• Comfort Food is a Myth (Pacific Standard)
• How to work like a human (Unstuck)

... and we danced all day to the best song ever

Buntastic bunnies breakfast-time

This video shows Rosie gathering fur and hay to line her nest. Sexually mature rabbits will dig and line nests regardless of if they are expecting babies. I currently have four bunnies yet to be desexed, and it seems like it’s the “time of the month” for Rosie, at the moment.

You’ll see at the beginning of the video she’s yanking fur out of her body. She’ll use  this to line the nest for her imaginary babies. Then she gathers hay - and you’ll note she’s pretty choosey about which bits of hay she selects; gathering more and more into her mouth (look, Ma, no hands!) to take down to her burrow. 

The burrow is underneath the hutch she shares with Pepper, Abby, and Richie, and is wide and deep and dark, so I wasn’t able to get a shot good enough for you to see. But it’s a doosey of a burrow, believe me!

Mops isn’t as interested in my camera as the other buns in the video below.

I love how Charlie and the girls are just used to having a camera shoved into their faces. Mops is pretty non-plussed and won’t go out of her way to do anything. The others are a bit more inquisitive, and Bella is downright “get that blimmin’ thing out of my hutch!” as you’ll see the black rabbit land in front of the camera and, grabbing the lens with her teeth, try to eject it from her home. 

Fortunately she turns it the wrong way - the blurry golden bunny in the distance is Summer, btw - and then Charlie (ever the camera ham) uses the same technique to haul it back.

Snowflake tries to groom her mama, Bella, but gets ticked off and turns her back on the whole proceedings.

I can, and do, watch these guys for hours. They’re such characters and are so complex and cute.