Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

@Zauberin excellent! I'm glad to hear it.

@Zauberin do you need money?

♫♪ I elbowed myself in the tit today ♪♫ Boy that was a big surprise ♪♫

@XerTheSquirrel Shit. Good luck

Finally doing better after a difficult few days. Seeing that the person who tried to hurt themselves is doing better helps a lot.

Three times this week I have had to talk someone out of hurting themselves or worse, and yesterday someone decided to livestream their attempt. They're okay now, thank God.

I'm feeling the weight right now. I consider it my duty to help people if I see them talking about hurting themselves because what else am I supposed to do, keep on scrolling? So I help when I can. I figure that I'll let myself feel the weight of it later, and if I make a difference to them that means that for them, there will be a "later."

But God, this time it is hard. It is hard. I still see the screen and hear the voice when I close my eyes, and right now I feel like if you pushed me hard enough I'd fall over and shatter like fine china. I don't think I have it in me right now to do it one more time this week and I am just flat praying that no one else has a moment of crisis.

I'm not in danger of hurting myself, don't worry. I'll get over it. But right now, things are hard, and I really hope that three is the limit for the week.

There is this LIST of shit that I just didn't do for 15 months because I was bound and determined not to catch COVID.

All that stuff about how people found themselves and tried new things in the lockdown? Well, the inverse is true; a lot of us were ABOUT TO, and then the wildest fucking thing happened

I am not breathing completely easy - still masking up and avoiding crowds - but it is nice to think the thought "I could go to the game store tomorrow" and actually do it.

I have a reminder in Google Calendar to inquire about my second jab in four days, since back then I was operating on the assumption that it'd only be available now. I'm a month out from having gotten it.

God, the first few months of 2021 waiting for that thing were absolute sheer agony.

@maeve 🤘🤘

@maeve Hooray for second dose!

@Leucrotta They just might!

If you're into Powered by the Apocalypse games, check out Impulse Drive as well; if you bought the BLM itch.io sale bundle last year then you probably already have a copy, and it definitely has that vibe of rules light GOTG-style shenanigans.

@typhlosion Hooray!

@kat It is a surprisingly robust XCOMer and I love it, and I love that XCOM is a genre again 🙂

We back?

Cool!

Lately, I have decided to accept that my body doesn't want to do jack shit before 11:00 in the morning no matter how early I go to bed, and I have planned around it by doing a little extra work at night after everyone else is asleep.

It's probably not viable long-term but the alternative is a vastly shortened workday and an accumulating backlog I can't make a dent in. The past couple of nights, I've made a nice little dent in it, and I've also racked up a few extra hours that I can use for financial expenditures that are coming up soon.

And I'm oddly, kind of okay with the break in the routine; I felt this intense pressure to have one single block of a workday but I feel better about myself breaking up the workday like this.

Whatever works, I suppose! I continue to be extremely fortunate that I even have this privilege in the modern job landscape, and I endeavour to find a way that everyone can enjoy a work schedule that works for them.