watching x-files with no lights on, we're dans la maison

[skald]

Happy 3 AM, fellow Retrospectres who can't/won't sleep because of all the nightmares and ghosts and memory fog and all that (and happy morning to anyone who checks their phone later, I guess)! I'm going to fall asleep if I don't start talking to someone soon and I'm trying to make it until dawn.

IF YOU ARE AWAKE RIGHT NOW, PLEASE WEIGH IN ON SOME/ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS (or you can message me when you wake up, that's fine too) :

-If this fog thing lasts for much longer, isn't it going to get in the way of Trick-or-Treating? If it rains (/creepy memory fogs) on Halloween, what do little kids (/university students who don't really get to celebrate Halloween in their home countries and would like to) do instead? Do I have to make backup plans or can we start some sort of safety Halloween caravan to protect the little kids (/occasional university students with no cool powers or survival instincts) from the monsters?

-Dave and I made a Finnish-language movie about magic pirates (and some other stuff, lots of symbolism, it's very deep), does anyone want to see it? Here's a trailer: x [this links to a trailer spliced together from this disaster, namely shots of Mafuyu hurling fake severed heads into the distance, Magician's Red looking ominous on camera, someone singing something to the tune of 'A Pirate's Life For Me,' though the accent is so strong it's not identifiable as Finnish, multiple clips from fight scenes, a creepy rabbit mask, and absolutely no subtitles.]

-Completely unrelated: currently taking applications for subtitle and/or scriptwriting positions. Compensation consists of lunch from a taco truck and a couple half-completed customer loyalty cards from various cafes, and you can put it on your CV. Please contact me for additional details.

-What are your top three coffee places in the city, I'm going to try all of them by the end of the month

-Is this better or worse than when half of us disappeared and there were monsters running around in the daytime

-What's the most comfortable lounge to sleep in on the Recolle U campus (during daylight hours, so please no big windows)

-Trick or Treat?

Comments

[skald]

Woah, do people really send their interns to get coffee? I thought that was just a thing in the movies.

Oh, some people got special top secret invitations to go to a cool hidden location and help solve the problem of the missing people. Not me. But some people at random.

We never know what these people are doing. But it would probably feel less ominous if it wasn't happening in October I guess.

[vendettastool]

My father is a big believer that working hard should also include duties like that and I don't see a reason to change that. I mean, even I had spent a few months interning and general office whipping boy.

I hope they're okay and not suffering from all that bs.

Well we do know that Janet gave in and married that guy, and we seem to have a few people working there or something, but yeah. No real facts ever come out of that place.

[skald]

Huh! I mean my job is basically running around town getting stuff for my boss and buying supplies but it's in my job description, you know? Not like... I thought I was signing up for an office job and now I have to go get coffee.

All of that would be solved if anyone just... explained any of the weird things that were happening. Jim is just a jerk but none of the other nice employees have ever just said "hi everyone, here's what's going on, sorry about the radio silence!" It'd be so easy.

[vendettastool]

Internship isn't the same as a full office job. It's more of getting to know the system and the people and how it runs, and pretty much also being the office go-getter for when things are needed and we can't find anyone else. Lowest man on the pole gets the worse jobs, basically.

I might not make sense even if they were able to do so. I still think it is some kind of VR hack at one level but I don't know really.