SamCyberCat

I'm back from my weekend away staying with friends at Leeds. As usual, it was a wonderful, chill weekend and it was good to catch up with them to talk about all the many things, since there are a lot of talks that feel better to have in-person than online. We spent a good chunk of the weekend playing the new Tomodachi Life, which I'm pleased to say is a vast improvement over the original game and was actually fun to watch! Though I have to confess that it's probably not a game I'd get myself, purely because I don't have the patience to make the miis look as good as I'd like. It was a lot more fun to watch my two artist friends make brilliant miis based on our pets and favourite characters.

While I was there, I also watched season two of Smoggie Queens with them, which continues to be one of the most entertaining shows I've ever seen. Mostly, I'm amazed that the BBC in this current climate would greenlight a second season for a loud and proud queer comedy about working-class people from Teeside, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that the series will continue to see the luck its gotten so far and gets another season, because there are plot-points that I'm very invested in now, particularly Sal's situation with her crush Mel.

( More Animorphs )

In terms of work, we've all had to do a bit of a shuffle for the next three weeks. We had a new-starter who had clearly bitten off more than she could chew with the job and quit effective immediately, so there were three weeks worth of rotas that the manager needed to cover. I didn't fair too badly in it, just working a bit more than I would've been originally. It's a shame, she seemed like a nice girl, but I could tell the job was a bit much for her. I think some people go for retail assuming it'll be an easy option and don't realise how much manual labour is involved in it in many places. I don't know yet if anyone else will be taken on to replace her though, so I guess we'll see.

I wanted to try to keep this journal somewhat positive, but bank holiday weekends are basically a nightmare for me and have been in every job that I've ever had, so my absence and exhaustion for the last few days stems from that. Of course I know that I'm lucky to have a job at all and I'm certainly a lot luckier than I was in my last job, which was a great many times more stressful than the one I have now, but even knowing all of this, I'm telling myself that it's okay to feel wiped out.

( Of Animorphs and reading guides )

As an unrelated side note, my icon here is of a character from a mobile game called "The Arcana" that I'm not actually very familiar with. I tried it briefly for a friend who liked it, but quickly realised that it wasn't for me. Regardless, the character in my icon, Portia, was the one love interest who I did really like in the game and her annoyed expression here is so fitting for many situations that I continue to use it, despite not caring for the game itself. I should at some point get a version of it where you can see her expression more closely though.