Spring Season: Week 11
May. 22nd, 2020 03:54 pmUuuuuugh. I'm so goddamn tired. BUT THIS IS MY LIFE NOW, SO WE SHAN'T DWELL. Honestly, if I'd updated this thing on Monday like I meant to, this would have read more like 'I TAKE IT ALL BACK, I LOVE SHIFTWORK NOW and I know that is a gross exaggeration but I DON'T CARE', but that didn't happen, so here we are. It just felt weird trying to write an update at home, like I was wasting valuable home time that could be better spent on other things? I don't know, either way, THAT WEEK OFF WORK IS REALLY GODDAMN AWESOME, Y'ALL. Awesome enough to be worth spending every other week in a state of constant sleep deprivation (still averaging 2/3 hours per night, which remains... insufficient but better than nothing) while busting my ass at work? Honestly? Maybe. Ask me again in a month??
Work is... a little oof at the moment, but I suspect that's because my weeks are going to be frontloaded, due to catching up on a week's worth of warranty work that nobody else here knows how to do for some reason. I mean, I guess it's good that I've managed to get myself into a position where they can't easily replace me, but cramming a week's worth of my prior workload into as few twelve-hour shifts as possible so I can stay on top of it all the rest of the time (while being customer-facing throughout) is... A Lot. But the week isn't even half over and I THINK I can get through this mountain of filing by the end of tomorrow at the latest, so... hooray? I've lost all sense of what is and isn't a victory anymore. Also of what day it is! I finally get to experience that whole aspect of quarantine living that I'd been missing out on this whole time! WHY DOES OUR WORK WEEK START ON WEDNESDAY, IT'S SO DAMN CONFUSING.
Slowly fashioning my sad, unused office in the back into a delightful little lunch cave where I can sit in the dark for half an hour and eat overpriced delivery food with my stories. THE WORK READS:
It was my mom's birthday yesterday, and her coworkers all threw her a really nice party, with pizza and cupcakes and ice cream cake, which made me feel somewhat better about only being able to come home from work and throw some stuff that I got off her Amazon wish list at her. She seems to have had a good day! Next year she turns 50 and I have no goddamn clue what I'm going to do!
Okay, anyway, I had a whole week off work so I watched a whole ton of movies:
( 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Slender Thread, Mississippi Mermaid, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights, Ghost World, Art School Confidential, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Meek's Cutoff, River of Grass, Wendy and Lucy, The Out-of-Towners, Targets, In Cold Blood, $, A Dandy in Aspic, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Cactus Flower, Mackenna's Gold, The Anderson Tapes, The Deadly Affair, Kill the Umpire, Fail Safe )
Okay, just a few hours left and then... four more days of this. I can do this. Aaaaand go!
Work is... a little oof at the moment, but I suspect that's because my weeks are going to be frontloaded, due to catching up on a week's worth of warranty work that nobody else here knows how to do for some reason. I mean, I guess it's good that I've managed to get myself into a position where they can't easily replace me, but cramming a week's worth of my prior workload into as few twelve-hour shifts as possible so I can stay on top of it all the rest of the time (while being customer-facing throughout) is... A Lot. But the week isn't even half over and I THINK I can get through this mountain of filing by the end of tomorrow at the latest, so... hooray? I've lost all sense of what is and isn't a victory anymore. Also of what day it is! I finally get to experience that whole aspect of quarantine living that I'd been missing out on this whole time! WHY DOES OUR WORK WEEK START ON WEDNESDAY, IT'S SO DAMN CONFUSING.
Slowly fashioning my sad, unused office in the back into a delightful little lunch cave where I can sit in the dark for half an hour and eat overpriced delivery food with my stories. THE WORK READS:
- Inside the Athletic: The Start-Up That Changed Journalism Forever (GQ)
- DrDrunkenstein's Reign of Terror (Slate)
- 2/26: The Oral History (Buzzfeed)
- Inside the World of Extreme Metal Logos (Kerrang!)
- Hideo Kojima's Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds (New York Times)
- Shell is Looking Forward (Intelligencer)
- There's an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy, and It Is WILD (Bon Appetit)
- My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (Gwern Branwyn)
- The Invisible City: How a Homeless Man Built a Life Underground (Guardian)
It was my mom's birthday yesterday, and her coworkers all threw her a really nice party, with pizza and cupcakes and ice cream cake, which made me feel somewhat better about only being able to come home from work and throw some stuff that I got off her Amazon wish list at her. She seems to have had a good day! Next year she turns 50 and I have no goddamn clue what I'm going to do!
Okay, anyway, I had a whole week off work so I watched a whole ton of movies:
( 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Slender Thread, Mississippi Mermaid, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights, Ghost World, Art School Confidential, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Meek's Cutoff, River of Grass, Wendy and Lucy, The Out-of-Towners, Targets, In Cold Blood, $, A Dandy in Aspic, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Cactus Flower, Mackenna's Gold, The Anderson Tapes, The Deadly Affair, Kill the Umpire, Fail Safe )
Okay, just a few hours left and then... four more days of this. I can do this. Aaaaand go!
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