I hate staying home from work when I'm sick cause my brain does that thing where it thinks since I'm off work I should be doing things. Despite the fact that I barely feel well enough to sit up.

I also feel guilty because we're already short handed at work and now they're probably struggling. But also. . .again, I couldn't sit up. My weak ass immune system doesn't even TRY to fight shit off, it just assumes I'm dying and accepts defeat. 😭

Also, one of the managers told me yesterday (day before? what even is time?) that they expected EVERYONE in the store to be out with whatever this is before the month is done because every day at least two people are out sick. So it's being passed around. And one coworker came in so sick he could barely stand up and we had to convince management to make him go home. (There's a whole story about how he lost one of the $4000 scanners we use because he was so out of it from the fever, but that's another debacle.) So I was like OH. Oh. I'M GOING TO GET THIS FOR SURE.

Thankfully I'd already hit forty hours before I left work yesterday so I should be okay financially. I'm hoping I'll get paid EARLY on Tuesday so I can do the thing where I only pay HALF the rent and then pay the other half later on in the month, but we'll see.

I'll email the office this evening once they update the site with the balance so they know what's going on. I don't THINK they charge a late fee until the sixth so that should work out. 🤔

Hoping the tylenol I took kicks in enough to be rid of this headache so maybe I can sit and work on fic for a bit. I have some stuff I want to accomplish this month if possible.

I can't even sit under a blanket and watch sports anime like I usually do when I'm sick cause I haven't renewed Crunchyroll yet. I COULD BE HANGING OUT WITH KENMA RIGHT NOW, BUT NOOO. I have to be financially responsible.

Title: I Guess I'll Never Learn
Fandom: Sk8 the Infinity
Pairing: Langa Hasegawa/Ainosuke Shindo
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mentions of consensual underage sex
Summary: Langa realizes he's not as over his past relationship as he thought. Especially when the past relationship won't stay out of his face.

On AO3

Title: It's a Half-Bad Thought and I'm Not So Well
Fandom: Yuri!!! On Ice
Pairing: Yuri Plisetsky/Otabek Altin
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mentions of consensual underage sex
Summary: A year after ending their relationship, Yuri and Otabek find themselves thrown together in the same hotel room.

On AO3

Title: Infinitely Mine
Fandom: Kyo Kara Maoh!
Pairing: Yuuri Shibuya/Wolfram von Bielefeld
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: Wolfram gets jealous at a party and Yuuri has to sort out his own feelings and Wolfram's amongst political shenanigans.

On AO3

Title: With Blind Faith and False Pride
Fandom: 07-Ghost
Pairing: Teito Klein/Frau
Rating: Teen
Warnings: age difference
Summary: When Teito falls ill with a mysterious illness, Frau ends up with the task of caring for him. And has to face some truths and consequences in the meantime

On AO3

Title: At Least We're Being Honest
Fandom: Fruits Basket (2019)
Pairing: Yuki Sohma/Kakeru Manabe
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: Yuki tries to tell Kakeru about the curse. Manabe thinks he's saying something else. Awkwardness ensues.

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I didn't get mutual pining or idiots in love. I'm a FRAUD.

Reading Saiyuki Gaiden while I'm eating dinner before I go back to working on this 07G fic and a mention of Goku wearing chains reminded me that I had forgotten about Teito also wearing chains at this point in the story.

So I threw in a throw away line about it. I had to do it earlier because of the slave collar. Both of which are things that the manga-kas seemed to have forgotten a lot.

Eeeh. It's fine.

So, the temperature dropped from like in the mid-70's - 80's (farenheit) down to like. . .50's - 60's yesterday. So, when I walked to work, it was like 75 degrees and I didn't need a jacket. By the time I left last night, it was like 30 something degrees.

My coworker was like "you're going to freeze. Call (manager) and see if you can get one of the company jackets" (They have like. . .uniform style jackets for the people who do the carts/trash/etc). So I called the manager's phone, but didn't get an answer. So I was like "it'll be fine."

I went to the restroom/cleaned up from where my shift was over and went to get my lunch box. Didn't think much about it. I got into the breakroom to see my manager and the girl who was helping him run the shift coming out of the back room.

My manager went "Hey (jilly) what size jacket do you wear?" and I told him and he was like "will a size bigger be okay?" and handed me the one in his hand.

I thanked them and got to go home a little warmer than I would have been. When I got back up front, apparently he and the girl (hannah) had called my station and the service desk trying to find me.

When I got up there, my coworker who had suggested it was like "He called just after you left and I was like SHE'S GOING TO FREEZE IF SHE WALKS HOME." So I guess they were scrambling to catch me before I left.

My shift lead came over like "Did Hannah find you? Cause she called and was like 'I don't know what size she wears! We're just going to guess!'." And around that time I guess I came through the door.

It struck me as. . .maybe I'm so used to like. . .expecting to be treated like crap, but I was surprised at the effort they put in just to make sure I have a jacket.

And now I have a jacket I can wear when I'm up by the front doors and it's cold.

Then I came home, watched the new Josh Johnson set and fell asleep. it's still very cold.

I have to work today but i'm going to TRY my damnedest to work on fic on breaks and tonight. Cause like. . .I at least want to finish this 07-Ghost fic before next week. I tried to do it on Monday but I got distracted by people messaging about something and then like. . .I'm at the point where IDK where it goes after this. (I wrote a really GOOD bit and had to roll around in how proud I was of it, though.)

I also forgot the corporate office is going to be in today. Not that it MATTERS since I do my job but it's still irritating cause everyone's going to be shitty about it.

OH SHIT. Sk8 OVA release date. LET'S GO.

March 19th 2025.

AAAAAH.

That's almost soonish.

Also now could all the Sk8 fandom stop bitching in Bones' mentions any time they talk about any of their other projects, thx.

HYPE OMG.

Yesterday was semi-productive writing wise. I got about. . .2000 words written. My goal currently is to just finish the two fics for this event that I've started and if I somehow get the energy to do the last three, then I will.

That's still 4/7 finished and considering I have no plan for the final day except "something Haikyu!!", it's FINE.

I might still do the edenshipping idea on my own since it technically ties into a fic I want to do later, but we'll see.

I did a little bit of cleaning around the apartment this morning and am trying to decide what I want to do for breakfast. I might just do waffles and then make something for lunch later.

I still need to read the new chapter of BSD, but at this point that might wait till payday. I think I'm off on Wednesday next week. So that would line up.

I think next year. With the exception of Sakurathon, I'm going to try to just work on stuff I want to work on and not sign up for any events. Unless by some event pops up where I'm like OHMYGOD I have to do that. Which is unlikely.

I said this on Tumblr, but i need a dead fandoms event to happen so I can write the bang or die/sickfic 07G idea I got when I started on the one I'm doing now. Like the current one was SUPPOSED to be that but it was going to be TOO LONG for this event. (That would be an event where I would drop everything to work on it)

I know I could just do it on my own but I need a non-self imposed deadline to get anything done, apparently. Or, more than that, I need a self-imposed writing goal. I want to find something kind of like how Discord has the bots you can install that will help me set a word goal and track it w/o me physically having to do it. I suppose I could make up a spread sheet.

I'll have to figure it out later on in the year.

I got the issues with Lyft sorted so I took one in to work. Now I am a half an hour early. So watching Sk8 in the breakroom.

Shout out to the moment I had to pause to make sure the headphones were connected thanks to Langa's first beef against ADAM.

I don't need to explain the orgasmic screaming to my coworkers.

Trying to make the best of this. If I am going to be in a job I hate and broke all the time, I am going to spend the time I am not at said job going towards the things I love.

OHMYGOOOD. So I went to the appointment for the new job, did the drug test and they emailed me that every position is full so they can't hire me. Like. . .you already gave me a start date?? And they basically said they just bring people in until the shifts fill up. So while I was there they ran out of slots.

They did say that since I already did all the paperwork when they get new shifts they can just slot me in to one. But it still means having to keep an eye out for openings until then.

And starving until I find something else since currently my job doesn't pay enough for me to afford food on a regular basis. I hadn't fully submitted a two weeks yet but oml the thought of going back into current job makes me want to die.

Also I could have picked up hours today but spent all day dealing with them.

Interview went well! I am apparently overqualified for the position and they want to set up a time for me to get them a copy of my degree (it's a pharmaceutical company so you have to have one) and to do a drug test. I'm just waiting to hear from them.

I did tell them I would have to give work at least a week's notice I was leaving. I'm a little concerned about figuring out HOW to get there since it's not located exactly where I thought it was. It might be too far to bike when it gets colder but that's a problem for future me. (I THINK the bus goes right by it, but I need to see cause it's been awhile since I've taken the bus down that way.)

I could also. . maaaybe look into a cheap used car if I'm making a bit more money and don't have Ro's vet bills anymore.

IDK. For the first time in MONTHS I have some glimmer of HOPE about the future. I'm not trying to get TOO excited cause things could still go wrong but the idea that I won't be trapped where I'm at financially or physically for much longer is a bit of weight lifted.