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Work + Reading
Oct. 8th, 2021 09:29 pmThis week (which is only half over for me, really) has felt stupid and long and annoying, yet nothing has really been wrong. Work friend called out sick again for half of yesterday and all of today, saying she seems to have the same cold again.
Which sucks! And I don't want anyone coming to work sick! But I am so fucking tired of rescheduling. ;_; Right now, we have nothing available until fucking December. We supposedly have four new people for our group of centers starting... but HR admitted we only have about a 50% retention rate, so who knows if anyone will stick. (Four out of our last five have been good, ha.)
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We may be getting our first snow next week, though forecasts differ. Won't know until it happens or doesn't. I'd be perfectly fine with it holding off for as long as it wants, lol.
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I finished reading The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards, which was a fun read. I don't think I enjoyed it *quite* as much as Taylor did, but it would get a solid 8/10 from me. The dialogue was great, because snark and banter are always the way to my heart, and it's definitely some interesting worldbuilding. (Though I DO wonder if they were correct in their guess that this may have been based on a D&D campaign, just from the way some of the monster encounters seem to work, haha.)
They've said they think the second book (The Hanged Man) improves on the first book all around, so I'm excited to read that one! It's still a few down on my list, though.
For now I've started Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune. Taylor just finished it and said it made them cry several times. I'm just a couple chapters in, but it'll probably do the same to me. I'm not even that much of a crier, but The House in the Cerulean Sea did get to me, haha. (Like... the cathartic kind of crying, not "omg so sad" crying.)
(The guy at the bookstore when I bought Under the Whispering Door told me he hadn't read it yet, "But The House in the Cerulean Sea made me cry" - pause to look around, see that no one else is close by - "like a motherfucking baby." So it's not an uncommon reaction!)
Which sucks! And I don't want anyone coming to work sick! But I am so fucking tired of rescheduling. ;_; Right now, we have nothing available until fucking December. We supposedly have four new people for our group of centers starting... but HR admitted we only have about a 50% retention rate, so who knows if anyone will stick. (Four out of our last five have been good, ha.)
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We may be getting our first snow next week, though forecasts differ. Won't know until it happens or doesn't. I'd be perfectly fine with it holding off for as long as it wants, lol.
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I finished reading The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards, which was a fun read. I don't think I enjoyed it *quite* as much as Taylor did, but it would get a solid 8/10 from me. The dialogue was great, because snark and banter are always the way to my heart, and it's definitely some interesting worldbuilding. (Though I DO wonder if they were correct in their guess that this may have been based on a D&D campaign, just from the way some of the monster encounters seem to work, haha.)
They've said they think the second book (The Hanged Man) improves on the first book all around, so I'm excited to read that one! It's still a few down on my list, though.
For now I've started Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune. Taylor just finished it and said it made them cry several times. I'm just a couple chapters in, but it'll probably do the same to me. I'm not even that much of a crier, but The House in the Cerulean Sea did get to me, haha. (Like... the cathartic kind of crying, not "omg so sad" crying.)
(The guy at the bookstore when I bought Under the Whispering Door told me he hadn't read it yet, "But The House in the Cerulean Sea made me cry" - pause to look around, see that no one else is close by - "like a motherfucking baby." So it's not an uncommon reaction!)
