Violet Arrows

A few hundred words over the past few days. More than the past several months. But on things I'm not trying to prioritize.

Monday messed everything up.

I think maybe I messed up having Bojangles sweet tea for breakfast. *both exhausted and vaguely anxious at the same time*

And that shit did not work AT ALL.

Sure, just as long as you don't care if anyone else survives.

Screenshot from Stardew Valley: The player (dark skinned woman in purple dress and witch hat) is talking to her husband Elliott (fair-skinned, red headed man in red jacket) in their kitchen. He says, "Would you still respect me if I guzzled two gallons of pumpkin ale at the Spirit's Eve festival? Sometimes a man has primitive urges..."

Elliott, mon coeur... qu'est que le fuck...? (Ignore my completely incoherent interior decorating.)

A DVD titled "A Wyrd Documentary: Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown"

Ooh. Found this while closing up and probably going to watch it tonight.

I’m not outraged or anything, but I have to say that I’m extremely surprised that NOBODY is mad about this game being called “Mewgenics” 😭

And as much as the internet is obsessed with cats, I guess the casual slaughter isn’t upsetting either?

Like I said, Idc fr, but ppl have been mad at less!

Lord almighty. The dream.

I had an original one of these and the tennis game. It certainly did not help my already tired eyes.

Okay never mind, he pissed me off. I'm clearly in a meeting to talk about the Japan trip, and he's still blabbing away next to my desk so my mic is picking up his yapping while I'm trying to talk.

But I'm still at work, so I had to answer calls and miss the whole thing anyway. 😒

One of my coworkers found out I was creating digital archives for the school and found out it was his own work from 40 years ago, so now he's going around the whole building showing everyone proudly.

Arbor Ouroboros - Small Wonders Sunlight filters through orange bottles, spraying the room in an autumnal sunset. / There is a lingering smell of antibiotics

The vibrant imagery of "Arbor Ouroboros" by Fizza Fatima draws us into a space where chronic illness and thriving life are side by side:

I mean, I think we should do some A/B testing with some billionaires sent to the guillotine, and others sent to a wood chipper to see which is better.

Brain: What if 3 minutes before we need to leave for work, we continued writing where we left off last night? :3

Me: My hatred is abyssal.

*cries because it's so tiny*

ALT: A white and brown finch is perched on a thumb.

How did getting a day off on Monday just make this week longer?!

I can hear the snuffling.

…They were hiding this thing on purpose. When did Katsael ever make any kind of advances? They barely said a word other than to acknowledge and obey an order. They always moved smoothly and silently around them, as if wary— no. Studying him. The way river spirits lazily ride on the currents, but are always watching and waiting to get close to the next passing meal. But he was always too busy actively hunting to notice he was the prey. The corner of Scale fell and passed clean through his boot, putting an immediate end to the whole affair.

Of course it's when I'm trying to go to bed after having an exhausting ass day. Of course. *immediately finds a bunch of shit to change too*

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And the caffeine no longer works only 3 hours later. *crawls under the desk to nap*

Working on the Vietnam war's impact on the school today. Seems they actually had the spine to do walkouts and strikes. Very different people here, now. *sneaks past the crowd of 'neckless' debate kids in front of the Union*

*tiredly looks at her fucking IT department when they keep having webinars for this shit*

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Having a deep depressive episode and still needing to go to work is some horseshit.

*half asleep, forgot glasses, and can't figure out why she can't see anything in her closet*

*puts up a gate so Luc won't try to move in and bug (facts) me to death*

I forgot to have them send a copy of that whole itemized list so I can budget for the next year. 😭 Unless like every other insurance company, they just decide they don't want to be bothered. In which case, I'll just get the pliers out of the garage.

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