Spring Season: Week 9
May. 4th, 2020 08:18 pmWelp. The waters have receded (thanks to some really beautiful weather), downtown is a fucking wreck, who the hell knows when all of those businesses will be able to reopen, and we're under a boil water advisory until SEPTEMBER. And that's not even the worst of it!
Starting Wednesday, I (and everyone else I work with) am doing seven-on/seven-offs, 7:30-7:30 shifts, until further notice. I genuinely don't think I can do it? It's not even the long hours, it's how fucking early they start; mornings have always been my one and only big dealbreaker when it comes to jobs. And I know it's a big one! It's why I put up with a lot of bullshit in order to stay with employers willing to keep me on later shifts! But everyone underestimates how much of an issue it is, that it's not just a preference; my body just does not adjust to those hours, I've tried so many times and it always ends the same way, I just rack up bigger and bigger sleep debts until I crash and burn. I guess if I just take it a week at a time I stand a chance? I don't really have any other option but to try! I spent all day last Tuesday just trying not to cry at work after the news came down, since then I've just been pre-emptively exhausted (and trying to wake up earlier with next to no success). It's not like I can just go out and find another job in the middle of... *gestures* and I'm really not looking forward to having to once I get fired for sleeping through one too many starts!
Also, my grandmother is under the impression that the hospital will be ending its lockdown in a week and we'll all be able to have a nice family dinner for my mom's birthday later in the month and I have no idea how to tell her that that's almost certainly not gonna happen.
Oh, and we haven't gotten mail in a week because our post office was underwater.
So, yeah. Everything is horrible aaaaaaaaaand I guess we'll see what fresh catastrophes I'll be dealing with in another week's time?
At least the weather is nice. More than thirty years here, and it still always manages to surprise me with just how quickly it goes from snowy winter hellscape to full-on summertime every year. Plus, I survived my second once-in-a-century natural disaster in under five years, so that's something! I guess the pandemic will make three eventually. I mean, ideally. Who knows what the future may hold?
Will it bring more movies? Yes! Probably a lot fewer of them for a little while, though. To the spoiler zone!
( Spider-Man: Far from Home, Friendly Persuasion, Performance, Shaft, A Star is Born; What's Up, Doc?; Love in the Afternoon, Wind, Loop, Un flic, Wuthering Heights, The Juniper Tree, Still, Hinterland, Aves, The Fast and the Furious )
Starting Wednesday, I (and everyone else I work with) am doing seven-on/seven-offs, 7:30-7:30 shifts, until further notice. I genuinely don't think I can do it? It's not even the long hours, it's how fucking early they start; mornings have always been my one and only big dealbreaker when it comes to jobs. And I know it's a big one! It's why I put up with a lot of bullshit in order to stay with employers willing to keep me on later shifts! But everyone underestimates how much of an issue it is, that it's not just a preference; my body just does not adjust to those hours, I've tried so many times and it always ends the same way, I just rack up bigger and bigger sleep debts until I crash and burn. I guess if I just take it a week at a time I stand a chance? I don't really have any other option but to try! I spent all day last Tuesday just trying not to cry at work after the news came down, since then I've just been pre-emptively exhausted (and trying to wake up earlier with next to no success). It's not like I can just go out and find another job in the middle of... *gestures* and I'm really not looking forward to having to once I get fired for sleeping through one too many starts!
Also, my grandmother is under the impression that the hospital will be ending its lockdown in a week and we'll all be able to have a nice family dinner for my mom's birthday later in the month and I have no idea how to tell her that that's almost certainly not gonna happen.
Oh, and we haven't gotten mail in a week because our post office was underwater.
So, yeah. Everything is horrible aaaaaaaaaand I guess we'll see what fresh catastrophes I'll be dealing with in another week's time?
At least the weather is nice. More than thirty years here, and it still always manages to surprise me with just how quickly it goes from snowy winter hellscape to full-on summertime every year. Plus, I survived my second once-in-a-century natural disaster in under five years, so that's something! I guess the pandemic will make three eventually. I mean, ideally. Who knows what the future may hold?
Will it bring more movies? Yes! Probably a lot fewer of them for a little while, though. To the spoiler zone!
( Spider-Man: Far from Home, Friendly Persuasion, Performance, Shaft, A Star is Born; What's Up, Doc?; Love in the Afternoon, Wind, Loop, Un flic, Wuthering Heights, The Juniper Tree, Still, Hinterland, Aves, The Fast and the Furious )
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