determinedly fighting back against november

[aria]

A list of excellent things in the past week:

+ The election!!! So happy, so relieved, so uselessly apologetic that North Carolina went red this time. I've been reading lots of smart articles about what the election turnout/results/&c mean for the country; I've also been reading and watching lots of Fox News and cohorts freaking the fuck out, and basking in the schadenfreude, because wow is that cathartic.

+ SNOW! It did not stick, but I love winter, I love it so, so much.

+ Cats! The apartment of Gondor is fostering Jessie's cats because her current living situation turned out to be not cat-friendly. The cats adjusted really quickly, and they are purring machines, and both of them are currently loafing on a couch, ahhh delightful furballs.

+ Haircut! I continue absurdly pleased with my short hair of queerness and joy. I tend to only spike it if I'm going to be leaving the house or have to otherwise make myself presentable, but I'm enjoying it both like that and in its natural fluffy state.

+ Job?? Last week I was hired conditional on my background check going through, but it ... hasn't yet, possibly because Hurricane Sandy fucked with databases or possibly just because bureaucracy. I called today to check and was assured I'm on the list of new hires, so I'm resigning myself to another potential week of limbo. But! assuming all continues well, I shall soon be gainfully employed in the actual city in which I live. It's work as a barista, because I'm an actual English major punchline, but Jessie and I realized that it means we (and feverbeats) will be living in a barista AU! So that's kind of delightful.

Comments

[anekdot]

Speaking as someone whose background check took like two weeks and several heart attacks, you're definitely fine, it's just their job to be stupid annoying. :P I mean, unless you murdered someone at some point and never mentioned it.

[aria]

Yeah, no murders on record, I just ahhh TELL ME I HAVE A JOB YOU RIDICULOUS PEOPLE. It is reassuring to know that yours took forever also though.

[anekdot]

YUP. also tbh, so did my background check for ... a summer internship... i got through nepotism... courtesy of my mother who's worked at the company for 15+ years. so i'm pretty sure background checks are just like that. YOU MUST LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS YOU START THOUGH, so i can stalk you at your coffee palace. i'm at the point where i'm drinking like 3 cups of shitty Keurig cups of coffee a day at the office, so i figure i may as well develop a taste for the real thing.

[aria]

Update, it went through and I start Monday!! I also hear tell, though cannot yet confirm, that I get a pound of coffee PER WEEK, so if you want to, idk, request flavors for me to get for you, I'll be giving pounds of coffee to various friends on rotation. :D

[anekdot]

....

GOOD GOD.

I will bone up on what flavors Starbucks offers, lol! BUT AWESOME DUDE THAT'S GREAT!!!!! Moneeeeeey./i> Do you know what hours they'll have you working?

[aria]

I KNOW RIGHT. And I ... apparently have to bone up on all the flavors & also TRY THEM ALL, so I will probably have recommendations for you at some point!

I do not know my hours yet! Training starts Monday, I assume I may be having exciting different schedules every week, but deep in my soul I really hope that they give me a shift that's like 4:30 AM-1 PM, because that would be kind of perfect for my bizarre awakeness needs.

[anekdot]

BOSS. right now i'm just getting very adept at telling the difference between different varieties of weird Keurig coffee. Protip calling your coffee "Dark Magic" doesn't make it taste better.

If you get the Ass O'Clock in the morning shift I should swing by on my way to work, lol. WHY DOES WORK START AT 8 AM WHAT CRUEL GOD DID I OFFEND TO MAKE THIS SO.

[aria]

oh my god having you as a morning regular would legit be the most HILARIOUSLY AMAZING

[anekdot]

i'm the sarcastic grumpy corporate douchebag in your barista au, obviously. :PPPP

[tei]

Congratulations on the jawwwb! I think being a barista is awesome and I want to do it at some point in my life. I'm not sure if that makes me odd or just really well suited to be doing a degree in the fine arts :P And they're actually really hard to get around these parts because for the life of me I can't find a coffee shop that doesn't want ~experienced baristas~. Oh well. I hope you provide lots of people with hot beverages and happiness!

[aria]

I don't think that makes you odd! In fact I am quite pleased with the prospect of being a barista, although it has already made for several conversations in which people expressed vague noises of sympathy or, in the case of my mother, continue to send me info about other potential jobs, because people can be kind of awful and judgy, yay. But I am looking forward to it!

[fahye]

BARISTA AU <3

My job would make the worst AU, let's be honest, is it 1% Grey's Anatomy, 4% calmly explaining things to angry relatives, and 95% trying coerce efficiency and/or beg favours from other people in the hospital over the phone. No room for exciting emotional plotlines and hilarious muffin-based hijinks there!



EDITED FOR MATHS

[aria]

BARISTA AU! I have yet to discover whether it will be a good one, but I have hopes! ...meanwhile your job would be a hilarious AU, but wouldn't work very well on grounds of realism.