As far as I've heard, the fight's still on

[beanside]

And we have made it to Friday! Yay! Do the happy dance! My only outting planned for today is to put on pants and a bra and go pick up Dad's prescription from the doctor. I would prefer not to, but unfortunately, they closed early yesterday, so I wasn't able to go after work. Honestly, that was probably a good thing, since by the time I finished up, I had such a headache that I just wanted to come home.

I spent the first five hours of work with nothing to do. I did my one market in about 20 minutes and then I sat. I did the inbox a little bit, but the coworker who was working it tends to be a little territorial, so I didn't do much. Finally at about 1, a list of orders came in to cancel, so that kept me busy for a little while. Then we had a supremely useless team meeting that could have been an email or a teams message. I know that they probably have to have them, but my god, it was a waste of my time and patience.

Part of it was that there was a lack of content, part of it was that my team is a bunch of pushy assholes. I have some processing issues, so everyone talking over each other, each trying to be loudest so they'll be heard is absolute hell for me, and that's my team. It's part of the reason I've enjoyed work from home so much. Also, it's just rude. We're not there to advance our personal grudges. Take those to your fucking manager one on one. It was just a lot. Plus it seems like they're going to add more shit to the delivery updates, just one week before I have to do it for a week while coworker M is away.

I took a break while I was typing this to check Twitter, which quickly turned into a doomscroll, and now I am feeling shitty and overwhelmed. Go team me. I hate this dumpster fire of a world we're currently living in. I feel helpless to fix anything, and it scares me for the safety of people I love. So, I'm going to do what I've been doing, which is to close Twitter and go look at a D&D module instead.

I've gotta prep for tonight's game anyway. I have a couple of chapters to re-read and some players to try to anticipate. Which is, I will say, impossible. They're going to go in directions I wasn't anticipating, and I'm going to fly by the seat of my pants. It's how the game goes. 7pm will not come quickly enough.

Okay, time to consider pants. Everyone have a wonderful Friday!

Comments

[dine]

good luck with pants!

your workday sounds awful (and I know from boring workdays, lately) - hopefully your weekend filled with gaming is a terrific time

[beanside]

The weekend games have been really good so far!

[realpestilence]

If you must check twitter-& believe me, I spend a LOT of my time there-you might want to pick a nice hashtag to play in instead of scrolling for political news every time. Cats, flowers, photography, books, whatever you like...you'll have some easy interaction without as much chance of running into jerks. Something positive.

I've been following the news obsessively for the last 6 years & it's been depressing as hell. I've had to learn to back off somewhat. It's hard!

[beanside]

I try not to overdo it, but once in a while I do get overwhelmed. I try to stick to D&D twitter as much as possible. Not that it doesn't have some issues, too.

[realpestilence]

There's been a deliberate effort to stir up discord by releasing bots into just about every thread that has any responses to it. It doesn't help, & twitter doesn't seem to do much about them any more. Part of a multinational political response. So aggravating, & it does work to derail productive conversations.