@Leucrotta well I guess it's a skirtless back half, now!

... fuck. do we really want to wear a skirt around the shitty Emeryville Target "security" who actively harass people? Better not...

@Leucrotta ... I wonder if I'd get someone deliberately trying to misgender us and ending up getting my gender /right/ by accident

that'd be a little funny

(...but also a dangerous situation)

@topaz I'd say try it but pack backup pants if you're really worried - if it works, you'll know you can get away with it some of the time.

@Leucrotta It's a good thing we have this giant backpack!

@Leucrotta we are on the train!

... not the right train. Gotta hop off at Lake Merritt and wait 7 minutes.

@Leucrotta Unsure whether I wanna hit the 19th St. convenience store for coffee and a milkshake, or head straight to the shitty Target.

Leaning towards 19th St. Might not even GO to Target, honestly. The aim of the trip is coffee and fresh air.

@Leucrotta pupdate: we have acquired food! Whoever is responsible for the outside tables a block down the street fucking put them away...

Should have gotten a milkshake instead of this "banana" milk. But that'd be another $4.50 of food money.

I'm not sure I care. :3 We have plenty of food money anyway, as far as we know.

@Leucrotta we have made it to the store, and inside, without incident! It is Poop Time [silly Keanu Reeves fart noises].

@Leucrotta we got too much food to safely carry.

again.

maybe I should put some stuff back

@Leucrotta okay, this does fit in two bags, and it's heavy, but I think we'll manage
barely

@Leucrotta ggh I /knew/ these highfloor buses would be a pain in a skirt (we took an AC Transit bus out, they are lowfloor with no steps)

and either we're buying more or food is getting way more expensive all of a sudden. And they have _definitely_ been sneakily raising prices.

We spent $65 on groceries today. Nearly $30 of that was the two 6-packs of nutrition shakes (essential for times we can barely move and all food sounds bad). They used to be under $10 a 6-pack, now they're $14...

@Leucrotta we are on the train home.

*curls up on train seat, grocery bags on the ground next to him*
... ow.

@topaz Hopefully tomorrow you can take it a little easier, and slam ibuprofen tonight

@Leucrotta ... WHY DID WE NEVER THINK TO TAKE MEDS.

[[blackfox?] maybe because a lot of the time it's more exhaustion than pain?]

hm true – I think the pain might be more of a new thing... or maybe we never noticed.

also

@Leucrotta also we need to make not every goings-out a grocery run.

(when we spend significant money every trip we feel like we have to be Productive so usually we wind up hauling groceries home)

@topaz Maybe pretty used to the idea of medication being prescription that it's hard to remember OTC stuff is a thing too?

@Leucrotta huh. Huh. That could track.

though on the other paw, we haven't really had much in the way of prescription medications (there was the bupropion we had once but we never really took it)

@Leucrotta also we are HOME.

*collapses.*

*doesn't move.*

of fucking COURSE the literal cop is in at the front gate – saw their car outside
it looks exactly like a cop car but with the markings removed – but it keeps the black-and-white paint scheme! Subtle. </s>

don't want THEM seeing us in a skirt but there's nothing we could fucking do about it, with the surveillance cameras.

@Leucrotta since there's nothing we could do to hide, I flipped The Finger at the camera

because after that one time (when they tried to tell us "you shouldn't be here" when we were just washing dishes at midnight)? yeah. fuck them.