Fic: Fish or Cut Bait (Highlander: the Agent)
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argentum_lsMore than a year after writing it, we've finally reached the point in our schedule where I can start posting my next Matthew story, Fish or Cut Bait.
I'm ridiculously excited about this story, in part because of how long it's been waiting. I hope you all enjoy it too.
Title: Fish or Cut Bait
Summary: A new case with a personal connection to Diana Chase takes the team to a town Matthew called home a century ago. There, with Diana closely involved in the investigation, he must also determine how Talbot's newfound knowledge of his Immortality will affect their partnership and his position within the FBI.
Rating: G for now. Probably up to a T later.
Word Count: ~43,000 (when complete)
Tags: Casefic, Canon Typical Violence, Other Additional Tags to be Added
I'm ridiculously excited about this story, in part because of how long it's been waiting. I hope you all enjoy it too.
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Mar. 6th, 2026 08:58 pmdustbunny105Vacation time~
I don't have any particular plans before I leave for the con but I do have things I'm hoping to get done before I go. I'll have roughly four and half days, since I'll be leaving Wednesday evening. Then I'll be getting back the following Wednesday night, so that's another four days to spend at my leisure before going back to work. Yay!
Can't say I'm especially looking forward to the bus trip but I'm trying to not dread it either. Might be bad, might be good. Might be neither! Whatever else it is, it's a new experience.
Tell you what's really annoying me, though, is that I forgot my book at work. I was not especially enjoying the book, tbh, but I was still intending to finish it this weekend. I'll probably see if my sister is willing to take me by to grab it on Monday, as I'd rather not wait the full two weeks' worth of my PTO.
I don't have any particular plans before I leave for the con but I do have things I'm hoping to get done before I go. I'll have roughly four and half days, since I'll be leaving Wednesday evening. Then I'll be getting back the following Wednesday night, so that's another four days to spend at my leisure before going back to work. Yay!
Can't say I'm especially looking forward to the bus trip but I'm trying to not dread it either. Might be bad, might be good. Might be neither! Whatever else it is, it's a new experience.
Tell you what's really annoying me, though, is that I forgot my book at work. I was not especially enjoying the book, tbh, but I was still intending to finish it this weekend. I'll probably see if my sister is willing to take me by to grab it on Monday, as I'd rather not wait the full two weeks' worth of my PTO.
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Mar. 5th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105I have like three things to do because I procrastinated, shouldn't take more than about thirty minutes total. Then? I'm going to bed!! I killed my "slowly getting sleep schedule in order" streak but I'm getting back on track tonight, babies B)
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Mar. 4th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105Wip Wednesday! Probably because I was so late last week, I didn't get any prompts. So, I figured I'd just toss up something I'm working on, to keep things rolling. I flipped through a few options and decided on the escape-fic, which I'm again posting all I've written of so far. I'm close to an ending, I can feel it...
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Aryana (60.3% completed)
Mar. 4th, 2026 08:40 pmscaramoucheI am 114 episodes into 189, and as a twist in this exercise, I found out that the previous playlist I thought was deleted, is back up! Since all the stats are there I would I guess it was set to private and then un-privated. Whatever the case, it is back, and I have those lovely stats and lovely English summaries and all the comments, but on that last one, it turns out I no longer have the patience to go through the comments, because...
I hate Adrian. As a character, as a love interest. Since I hate him, I feel like I'm tripping balls when I read the comments and they're full of Adrian love, of how Adrian is the best, of how Aryana and Adrian are so sweet together. Fiction is subjective and this is far from the first time I've bounced off a character I've seen so much love for, so what can you do. One consequence of this is that I don't read the comments as I did before, and another consequence is that my interest in Aryana's storyline is dipping. Not all the storylines, mind! Just Aryana's.
Because now Aryana has legs again we're back to mostly-mundane school shenanigans but with a third love interest in the mix, and I think it's a problem when a female character who's the lead of a show, has significantly more male love interests than female friends. It didn't feel as obvious when there were just Marlon and Hubert, but now Adrian is there, Aryana's social interactions are overwhelmingly with boys. And she doesn't even hang out with the one female friend she does have! Bebet is only Aryana's friend at school! And then Aryana's family, i.e. her mother, grandmother and uncle, haven't had much to do with her in this arc beyond listening to her boy woes (I was also startled when I realized hadn't seen Ofelia in any significant way for a few episodes in there).
Did viewers not like Marlon because he's too whiny and not like Hubert because he's a pushover? And so they created an assertive third love interest who physically grabs Aryana's arm when she tries to get away from him, and doesn't listen when Aryana begs him to stop, and doesn't believe Aryana when she says she's not interested, because we're apparently doing the thing where no means yes and Aryana is into it actually and all her yelling at Adrian is flirting actually? Shut up!! I do not like this!! I can acknowledge romantic comedy tropes and telenovela tropes and still not like it!!!!
I thought I understood the reason for Adrian, in that Hubert and Marlon both know Aryana's secret, so adding a boy who is NOT in the know shakes things up. BUT THEN Adrian learns Aryana's secret like five episodes after he first meets her, and what are we doing, show. Why are you suddenly going breakneck speed when you teased Marlon finding out and Hubert revealing HIS secret for dozens of episodes, but it takes two episodes for Adrian to find out Aryana saved him and another three to find out she's a mermaid. What the heck. The intensity of the show's interest in Adrian, and giving him top billing of the three love interests despite being a new addition, it feels like they shoved in a hail mary character to revitalize the show, which may indeed be the case and I simply do not know the dynamics of the viewing audience at the time to understand.
Anyway I'm more invested in Megan's storyline now.
I hate Adrian. As a character, as a love interest. Since I hate him, I feel like I'm tripping balls when I read the comments and they're full of Adrian love, of how Adrian is the best, of how Aryana and Adrian are so sweet together. Fiction is subjective and this is far from the first time I've bounced off a character I've seen so much love for, so what can you do. One consequence of this is that I don't read the comments as I did before, and another consequence is that my interest in Aryana's storyline is dipping. Not all the storylines, mind! Just Aryana's.
Because now Aryana has legs again we're back to mostly-mundane school shenanigans but with a third love interest in the mix, and I think it's a problem when a female character who's the lead of a show, has significantly more male love interests than female friends. It didn't feel as obvious when there were just Marlon and Hubert, but now Adrian is there, Aryana's social interactions are overwhelmingly with boys. And she doesn't even hang out with the one female friend she does have! Bebet is only Aryana's friend at school! And then Aryana's family, i.e. her mother, grandmother and uncle, haven't had much to do with her in this arc beyond listening to her boy woes (I was also startled when I realized hadn't seen Ofelia in any significant way for a few episodes in there).
Did viewers not like Marlon because he's too whiny and not like Hubert because he's a pushover? And so they created an assertive third love interest who physically grabs Aryana's arm when she tries to get away from him, and doesn't listen when Aryana begs him to stop, and doesn't believe Aryana when she says she's not interested, because we're apparently doing the thing where no means yes and Aryana is into it actually and all her yelling at Adrian is flirting actually? Shut up!! I do not like this!! I can acknowledge romantic comedy tropes and telenovela tropes and still not like it!!!!
I thought I understood the reason for Adrian, in that Hubert and Marlon both know Aryana's secret, so adding a boy who is NOT in the know shakes things up. BUT THEN Adrian learns Aryana's secret like five episodes after he first meets her, and what are we doing, show. Why are you suddenly going breakneck speed when you teased Marlon finding out and Hubert revealing HIS secret for dozens of episodes, but it takes two episodes for Adrian to find out Aryana saved him and another three to find out she's a mermaid. What the heck. The intensity of the show's interest in Adrian, and giving him top billing of the three love interests despite being a new addition, it feels like they shoved in a hail mary character to revitalize the show, which may indeed be the case and I simply do not know the dynamics of the viewing audience at the time to understand.
Anyway I'm more invested in Megan's storyline now.
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Mar. 3rd, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105Today was such a frikkin drag. I very, very rarely get motion sick but I nauseated myself trying to read on the ride to work this morning-- which I cannot stress enough is something I do almost every morning without incident-- and it didn't really start going away until it was almost time to go home. I had a headache most of the day, too, and so of course those two things just kept feeding each other.
Besides that, we got our usual notice of last months corrections and I made more errors than I have in actual years. Didn't feel good, lemme tell ya. At least all but one was the same type of error, so I at least know where I need to pay more attention. It was actually something I've felt like I've not been paying enough attention to lately-- double-checking name spellings-- so goes to show me, I guess. Funniest thing is that I remembered one of the names because it was a minor spelling variation I'd never seen before of a common name. As I was looking over the scans, I even thought to myself, "How did I mess that one up?" because it stood out to me so much at the time. Aaand it turns out I got it wrong by instinctively spelling the name "correctly" and not noticing when I looked back over it, lol.
It was also just plain slow, which is usually annoying enough on its own. And it looks like tomorrow is gonna be the same way...
On the other hand! One step closer to vacation time :D
Besides that, we got our usual notice of last months corrections and I made more errors than I have in actual years. Didn't feel good, lemme tell ya. At least all but one was the same type of error, so I at least know where I need to pay more attention. It was actually something I've felt like I've not been paying enough attention to lately-- double-checking name spellings-- so goes to show me, I guess. Funniest thing is that I remembered one of the names because it was a minor spelling variation I'd never seen before of a common name. As I was looking over the scans, I even thought to myself, "How did I mess that one up?" because it stood out to me so much at the time. Aaand it turns out I got it wrong by instinctively spelling the name "correctly" and not noticing when I looked back over it, lol.
It was also just plain slow, which is usually annoying enough on its own. And it looks like tomorrow is gonna be the same way...
On the other hand! One step closer to vacation time :D
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Mar. 2nd, 2026 08:58 pmdustbunny105These past couple of days, I've been getting closer and closer to being in bed and ready to sleep at the time I'd like to (I say as the clock ticks ever closer to midnight). At this rate, I should have my sleep schedule nailed down just in time for my vacation to ruin it, lol.
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Mar. 1st, 2026 07:27 pmdustbunny105I've been trying to think of something to say about what's happening in the Middle East right now but everything is happening so much and it's so exhausting just trying to keep up. Still, I've been saying nothing and it's felt Bad, so I want to at least ramble a bit. Not really trying to say anything of substance, just get some thoughts down. Idk how much sense any of this will make but how much sense does anything make anymore anyway.
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Unofficial Fandom 50: Frontios [4/50]
Mar. 1st, 2026 08:49 pmthisbluespirit[I wrote this with about 0 brain something like 2 months ago. But I was feeling like posting one of my drafts and I just realised belatedly that Chris Bidmead had died in August. Or possibly just found out and was shocked for a second time, who knows, it's terrible how much I forget. But I do love his DW era very much and while he lived to a good age, I am still sorry to hear it - he brought so much to the show & was a rare DW script editor who was genuinely interested in SFF* as a genre, which showed in a whole bunch of scripts commissioned by him, which are like any of the other eras - even if a whole set of them then had the misfortunate to be made by the next script editor who Did Not Get Them at all. This serial is actually one he wrote later for his successor's rather more action/dark orientated era (and said successor, Eric Saward, Did Not Get this one either), but - I had prepared it earlier! And also: I love Frontios!]
I haven't much brain so I thought for this edition of the Unofficial Fandom 50 I would once again burble about a favourite classic Who serial, this time...
Frontios
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What is it?
It is a four part Fifth Doctor serial (4x 25 mins; c. 1hr 25 minutes in total) from Season 21 (1984). Yes, it has Giant Woodlice.
The Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) accidentally stray into the far future - so far that the Time Lords are forbidden to go there. They arrive at a tiny, struggling colony of survivors from Earth, who are under bombardment from an unknown enemy from space - except there's also something beneath them: the earth on Frontios is hungry...
Sometimes, as a DW fan, you love the unloved serial; sometimes you adore the fan favourite - and sometimes you just love a decent one more than you can properly justify or exactly explain, but we've all been there. I have a few of these, and Frontios is one, although honestly I think it belongs in the circle just outside of the all time greats personally, which is why I'm going to babble about it. (I mean, I realise, like everything, it does depend on a) taste and b) how people feel about lumbering giant woodlice).
(It's also the only DW serial where a member of the main guest cast had to be replaced at the last minute because the original actor, Peter Arne, had been murdered. This has no bearing on anything, other than the replacement being the excellent William Lucas, but I felt the need to mention it anyway). (All my DW classic faves do not involve someone dying or nearly dying irl, I promise).
What do I love about it?
It's about confronting buried/unspoken terrors & what you can do with gravity in SFF if you have some giant woodlice to hand, plus it's one of those forsaken, almost Shakespearean colonies classic Who loves to do (the youthful leader with his fragile hold on it is even called Plantagenet) and I am a sucker for such things. The guest cast is great - William Lucas, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Gilmore & Jeff Rawle, pre-Drop the Dead Donkey.
Penned by Five's original script editor, Chris Bidmead, Peter Davison shines here, and gets to pull out his brainy specs for the first time since Bidmead left; Tegan and Turlough are both really well used, with Turlough's buried race trauma demonstrating that having alien companions as well as earthlings on the TARDIS can lead to interesting options for storytelling.
It's dark and weird, fascinating and quotable, with excellent team!TARDIS banter. The hatstand gets a moment of glory. The TARDIS is disintegrated. The Doctor saves Tegan's life by being really insulting to her. "Frontios buries its own dead."
Basically, I love weird colonies, I love strange ideas, I love this TARDIS team, I love the hatstand, I'm not at all put off by giant woodlice and: "Just tell them I came and went like a summer cloud." (Oh, Five. <3)
* Classic Who script editors (and producers) were assigned to the show by the BBC and did not always have a huge amount of choice about being offered the post and then being removed from it - it was just how the BBC worked at the time.
I haven't much brain so I thought for this edition of the Unofficial Fandom 50 I would once again burble about a favourite classic Who serial, this time...
Frontios
tumblr gifset for pictures
What is it?
It is a four part Fifth Doctor serial (4x 25 mins; c. 1hr 25 minutes in total) from Season 21 (1984). Yes, it has Giant Woodlice.
The Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) accidentally stray into the far future - so far that the Time Lords are forbidden to go there. They arrive at a tiny, struggling colony of survivors from Earth, who are under bombardment from an unknown enemy from space - except there's also something beneath them: the earth on Frontios is hungry...
Sometimes, as a DW fan, you love the unloved serial; sometimes you adore the fan favourite - and sometimes you just love a decent one more than you can properly justify or exactly explain, but we've all been there. I have a few of these, and Frontios is one, although honestly I think it belongs in the circle just outside of the all time greats personally, which is why I'm going to babble about it. (I mean, I realise, like everything, it does depend on a) taste and b) how people feel about lumbering giant woodlice).
(It's also the only DW serial where a member of the main guest cast had to be replaced at the last minute because the original actor, Peter Arne, had been murdered. This has no bearing on anything, other than the replacement being the excellent William Lucas, but I felt the need to mention it anyway). (All my DW classic faves do not involve someone dying or nearly dying irl, I promise).
What do I love about it?
It's about confronting buried/unspoken terrors & what you can do with gravity in SFF if you have some giant woodlice to hand, plus it's one of those forsaken, almost Shakespearean colonies classic Who loves to do (the youthful leader with his fragile hold on it is even called Plantagenet) and I am a sucker for such things. The guest cast is great - William Lucas, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Gilmore & Jeff Rawle, pre-Drop the Dead Donkey.
Penned by Five's original script editor, Chris Bidmead, Peter Davison shines here, and gets to pull out his brainy specs for the first time since Bidmead left; Tegan and Turlough are both really well used, with Turlough's buried race trauma demonstrating that having alien companions as well as earthlings on the TARDIS can lead to interesting options for storytelling.
It's dark and weird, fascinating and quotable, with excellent team!TARDIS banter. The hatstand gets a moment of glory. The TARDIS is disintegrated. The Doctor saves Tegan's life by being really insulting to her. "Frontios buries its own dead."
Basically, I love weird colonies, I love strange ideas, I love this TARDIS team, I love the hatstand, I'm not at all put off by giant woodlice and: "Just tell them I came and went like a summer cloud." (Oh, Five. <3)
* Classic Who script editors (and producers) were assigned to the show by the BBC and did not always have a huge amount of choice about being offered the post and then being removed from it - it was just how the BBC worked at the time.
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Mar. 1st, 2026 11:57 amgreenworking on a new book. today I rewrote my opening. it's better now, I think? still not saying exactly what I want it to, but it's better.
BOOOOO (D+ is sloppy)
Mar. 1st, 2026 03:14 pmscaramoucheI got the chance to muck around with a D+ account for a bit and although I struggled with the UI, I can't tell if it's because I'm so used to Netflix and youtube, or if it really is as finnicky as it seems to be. That aside, some actual disappointments about the service for me:
I put on the 1989 The Little Mermaid movie because I wanted to see which version they had up, because there's been multiple restorations over the years. Good news: the picture is clean, with none of those uneven lines and truncated transitions, so I assume it's from the latest Blu-Ray release about... six years ago? Definitely not the one before that. Bad news: the audio mix is terrible!
This is a movie I know SO well, so I could tell pretty quick there's something very strange going on with the audio balance between dialogue, music and sounds effects (eg. water sounds, background noises). Some noises are too loud, some are too soft, and the worst is when the music is not on the same level as the singing. It's almost a Christopher Nolan movie here! I wanted to double-check that it's not my device or speakers, so I put on my personal DVD of the movie, and that sounds perfectly fine on my PC speakers. I poked around a bit online and it's not really clear what the problem is. One possibility is that the version on D+ is optimized for TV with surround sound, so it sounds weird on a PC. I can't double-check this, though.
Then I checked out the Little Mermaid TV series and, oh boy. Some episodes are in the wrong order, despite the platform listing each episode's original release date right there. The video has been cropped from the original 4:3 to 16:9, losing that extra detail (and making it feel squished, as this is also media I know very well). Best yet, the pilot episode is missing entirely, and the only thing I could find about it is some speculation that it's too scary for children, as it does open with a group of whalers attacking an orca pod. (Which is totally something they would do, considering the edits that D+ has done to other movies like A Parent Trap and Splash.)
I guess all of this just serves to remind that streaming is not owning, and to keep your own copies before they become lost media. :/
I put on the 1989 The Little Mermaid movie because I wanted to see which version they had up, because there's been multiple restorations over the years. Good news: the picture is clean, with none of those uneven lines and truncated transitions, so I assume it's from the latest Blu-Ray release about... six years ago? Definitely not the one before that. Bad news: the audio mix is terrible!
This is a movie I know SO well, so I could tell pretty quick there's something very strange going on with the audio balance between dialogue, music and sounds effects (eg. water sounds, background noises). Some noises are too loud, some are too soft, and the worst is when the music is not on the same level as the singing. It's almost a Christopher Nolan movie here! I wanted to double-check that it's not my device or speakers, so I put on my personal DVD of the movie, and that sounds perfectly fine on my PC speakers. I poked around a bit online and it's not really clear what the problem is. One possibility is that the version on D+ is optimized for TV with surround sound, so it sounds weird on a PC. I can't double-check this, though.
Then I checked out the Little Mermaid TV series and, oh boy. Some episodes are in the wrong order, despite the platform listing each episode's original release date right there. The video has been cropped from the original 4:3 to 16:9, losing that extra detail (and making it feel squished, as this is also media I know very well). Best yet, the pilot episode is missing entirely, and the only thing I could find about it is some speculation that it's too scary for children, as it does open with a group of whalers attacking an orca pod. (Which is totally something they would do, considering the edits that D+ has done to other movies like A Parent Trap and Splash.)
I guess all of this just serves to remind that streaming is not owning, and to keep your own copies before they become lost media. :/
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Feb. 28th, 2026 08:58 pmdustbunny105Last curriculum post of the month, let's go.
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I'm a little nervous and very excited to be moving into the final third of my study plan. It's the home stretch! Sailing hasn't been entirely smooth but I'm pleased with how far I've come and looking forward to reaching the finish line.
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I'm a little nervous and very excited to be moving into the final third of my study plan. It's the home stretch! Sailing hasn't been entirely smooth but I'm pleased with how far I've come and looking forward to reaching the finish line.
Ficlet: Live in Hope (Small Prophets)
Feb. 28th, 2026 08:50 pmthisbluespiritJust wrote a little snippet for Small Prophets, for 100fandoms, because I felt like it and also I thought there should be something for it, so:
Live in Hope (266 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Small Prophets (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kacey & Michael Sleep
Characters: Kacey (Small Prophets), Michael Sleep
Summary: Michael and Kacey have nothing to do but wait.
(I need to rewatch it - I think this must be set c. late ep4 or sometime in ep5? I mean, I need to rewatch anyway, because it hasn't stopped living in my head yet.)
100fandoms, because I felt like it and also I thought there should be something for it, so:Live in Hope (266 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Small Prophets (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kacey & Michael Sleep
Characters: Kacey (Small Prophets), Michael Sleep
Summary: Michael and Kacey have nothing to do but wait.
(I need to rewatch it - I think this must be set c. late ep4 or sometime in ep5? I mean, I need to rewatch anyway, because it hasn't stopped living in my head yet.)
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Feb. 27th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105Heck of an interesting end to the work shift I had. Well, not the end exactly but close enough.
The client lab techs let me know there were catering leftovers in the fridge and so of course I went to scope it out like usual. I was just finishing portioning some stuff out when a lady who works downstairs came in and told me the fridges were getting cleaned out for the weekend and to take as much as I thought I could make use of. Well, okay! I was still inclined to be shy about it but she just kept piling things into the box she'd let me appropriate. And, I mean, hey-- free food. More specifically, free food that would go to waste if I didn't take it. So, I just kept letting her pile things on.
And of course the box ended up being heavy but here's me, Ms Hubris, all like, nah, it's fine, I've got it. And, tbf, I did... for a while. By the time I got back to my building, it's just a good thing no one was around to hear me. Have you ever been doing some kind of strenuous activity and the only way you make it through the final stretch is to just throw dignity to the wind and make the most hideous wheezing noises known to man? That was me. Anyone who heard me probably would've thought I was having a heart attack, lol.
Did I mention the box had gotten wet-- my fault-- so the bottom was slowly falling apart as I went? So I couldn't really adjust my grip for fear of it falling out? Yeah.
Anyway, I was worried I'd have to take all that into a Lyft and it's not like all of it would fit in my fridge anyway, so I foisted a few things off onto coworkers. Then it turned out my sister was available to give me a ride, so I didn't have to worry about transporting it, at least. So, my last hour or so of work was spent with this huge, comically overfilled box of miscellaneous food items sitting next to me. Fun times!
The client lab techs let me know there were catering leftovers in the fridge and so of course I went to scope it out like usual. I was just finishing portioning some stuff out when a lady who works downstairs came in and told me the fridges were getting cleaned out for the weekend and to take as much as I thought I could make use of. Well, okay! I was still inclined to be shy about it but she just kept piling things into the box she'd let me appropriate. And, I mean, hey-- free food. More specifically, free food that would go to waste if I didn't take it. So, I just kept letting her pile things on.
And of course the box ended up being heavy but here's me, Ms Hubris, all like, nah, it's fine, I've got it. And, tbf, I did... for a while. By the time I got back to my building, it's just a good thing no one was around to hear me. Have you ever been doing some kind of strenuous activity and the only way you make it through the final stretch is to just throw dignity to the wind and make the most hideous wheezing noises known to man? That was me. Anyone who heard me probably would've thought I was having a heart attack, lol.
Did I mention the box had gotten wet-- my fault-- so the bottom was slowly falling apart as I went? So I couldn't really adjust my grip for fear of it falling out? Yeah.
Anyway, I was worried I'd have to take all that into a Lyft and it's not like all of it would fit in my fridge anyway, so I foisted a few things off onto coworkers. Then it turned out my sister was available to give me a ride, so I didn't have to worry about transporting it, at least. So, my last hour or so of work was spent with this huge, comically overfilled box of miscellaneous food items sitting next to me. Fun times!
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Feb. 26th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105I slept so badly and I've been so tired today and my edit to the last post just got eaten by some kind of glitch :,)
ARGH.
ARGH.