Holidays are just my normal life now

[clevermanka]

When I crawled into mckitterick 's bed this morning he said something like "hey, you don't have to go to work" and I screeched  "EVER AGAIN!" which is probably going to keep being funny until the money runs out.

Today I want to get my summer clothes hung and winter stuff put away. It's the end of fuckin' May but our weather here's been so weird. Up until last week we were still having days in the low 60s. So even though I was hung over on Saturday (good times, bad habits), I forced myself to carry eight loads of wet laundry to the laundromat (my washer works, it's just the dryer that's broken) because I need to get these damn wardrobes switched out and that wasn't happening with two weeks-worth of dirty winter clothes. Still no ETA on the backordered, broken dryer part (that we don't think is the actual problem but I know the repairman isn't going to listen to me).

We're also going to an early matinee of Detective Pikachu finally. Finally! I'm excited. All I want is 90+ minutes of Ryan Reynolds' voice coming out of something cute and fluffy. My expectations are very low. Looking forward to it.

Tomorrow's Tumblr collection is a slew of Zhu Yilong photos. You're welcome! I think it's hilarious that most of the photos of Zhu Yilong (for non-Guardian people, he's the nattily-dressed professor dude) I see come across my dash are photos like this while Bai Yu (the scruffy motorcyle-riding cop dude) usually shows up on my dash looking like this.  ETA: Or apparently like this? Wow. I...honestly Do Not Know What I Think of the styling here? I'm...conflicted.

I am slowly making my way through the 520 Guardian exchange gifts. Doing my best to slowly parcel them out when I really want to just hole up in my bedroom and binge them all. At least I have a high capacity for delayed gratification.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Hey, enjoy being unemployed as long as you can. You deserve a break!

[clevermanka]

I tried to register for unemployment yesterday--my first day of eligibility--just like I was instructed! But apparently the state website for it isn't functional on weekends or holidays? The fuck? A website. Isn't functional. On weekends. Or holidays. Oh, Kansas.

[kazoogrrl]

Hey, Baltimore's city websites and email were all hacked, so I can't even pay my water bill! Not that they can generate one and mail it to me.

Also, at one point I couldn't pay my health insurance after a certain time, because the website didn't let you do it at night.

[riventhorn]

lol, that's an apt comparison of Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu there. Bai Yu is such a dork. :D

[clevermanka]

I adore their chemistry together! I hope they remain friends and in contact with each other. They seem to really enjoy each other's company and I love odd-couple relationship--not only in shippy ways (although I obviously love those, too).

[mekare]

Have fun with Detective Pikachu! And enjoy your time with the 520 gifts. I have only read a fraction and so far everything has been excellent!

[clevermanka]

This is a seriously talented fandom, For Real. Thank You Thank You for driving me here!

[asya_ana]

I'm glad you had a good start to your vacation. You need a break and watching movies and reading fic sounds like an excellent start. <3

[clevermanka]

It is! Now I just gotta figure out how to pry mckitterick away from his computer to get the summer clothes out of the attic for me...

[rheasilvia]

There is definitely an upside, and you should enjoy it to the fullest!! Soon enough you'll be going to work again, but in the meantime you can enjoy the break and put some mental distance betwewen you and all the BS. :-)

[clevermanka]

I find anger is a great tool for intellectually distancing myself, so yay for that! It's the emotional crap I'm really dreading because for 1, I am not fond of emotions and 2, they are going to be a lot more complicated to deal with (see 1). That's definitely gonna be an upcoming post. Wording things out is more cathartic for me crying or other sorts of processing (again, see 1 and also that provost letter =D).

[seascribble]

May something better come along before the money runs out. Happy whatever the heck season this is.

[clevermanka]

Right? Are y'all having weirdo weather up there, too?

[seascribble]

Dunno, it's all new to me! I think it's rainier than usual in Ontario, but the Nova Scotia "spring" was par for the course (rain and frost)

[aprilstarchild]

I *loved* Detective Pikachu, and I know very little about Pokemon. I expected a super fun movie and it delivered. The Pokemon all looked real without being creepy (unless they were supposed to be creepy) and the villains all thoroughly chewed the scenery, and our Plucky Heroes were Very Plucky.

Also there were a bunch of kids at my showing (which I expected) and every time a new Pokemon came on screen I could hear both adults and kids stage-whispering the name, and the kids were all super-excited about it; which was entirely charming instead of annoying.

I just wish we'd seen Team Rocket!

[clevermanka]

I had a moment when that chick showed up in the awesome suit with the pink latex fingerless gloves and I was like is that gonna be Jessie? but no...

mckitterick didn't know much of anything about it, either (at least you know Team Rocket) and he still liked it.