its thursday. weird feeling since I don’t have school to fill the gaps in my days. it’s really nice, don’t get me wrong, but I feel very out of the regular time loop. its like thinking it’s a different day of the week than it is, except when you find out the correct day, it just feels wrong. not really sure how to explain that much better. it’s been nice to get off work early and have a “free day” and by free day, I mean more time to do my homework (that I’ve been putting off until today). I did give myself a night or two of rest away from school cause technically it is break for me and I should take that rest time.

anyway, work went well, as it has been. my customers are much more excited to talk to me now and make sure they get my name and story. I did pour really nice art today which always makes me feel better. I’m getting used to the machine and how it steams milk. I need some work on my technique but it’s coming to me slowly. it was really slow today. I got some cleaning done, not much, but it gave me something to do for the time being. also, my coworker’s attitude switched up drastically at the end of the shift and he was back to his normal behavior, so that was really weird. not really sure what changed, but it was no longer fun. thankfully it was at the end so I didn’t have to deal with it very long. also, side note, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned the mannequin arms and hands near the dumpster at work. I have absolutely no use for them whatsoever, but I also can’t seem to shake my incessant need for useless oddities. I’ve been letting them sit there for a couple days now but I might just bring them home and figure out what, if anything, to do with them when I get a spark of creativity.

I completely forgot the next chapter is due tomorrow, so I worked through all of that today. fed myself all day, yay. oh also, a customer of mine brought me lion’s mane mushrooms he had grown. I have no idea what I’m going to do with them, but I just hope I get to them before they go bad. I am really excited and it was kind of him. also, someone dropped a mushroom keychain into the tip jar, which I assume was meant for me since that’s a very specific random thing to end up in there. texted with my sister a bit today. apparently, my nephew felt really touched that I remembered his birthday and reached out to him and she said he’d mentioned it at dinner the night before. I thought that was sweet and I’m glad it went over well.

I guess not much else to report. time to rest and let this big world keep moving around me.