once again, this weekend has been… nothing.
i tried SOS chaining pikipek for a shiny, but with no shiny charm and my low level of progress overall in the game (well. i guess the two kinda go together, huh), that bitch eluded me. For a full day. I was seriously in that fight from 7 last night until I went to bed, and then from noon until 7 or 8ish tonight. At least I sort of had a system figured out. My Carbink, which bears the apt name of “Cuppeon”, was a wonderful tank, and I had a Petilil, an Eevee, and a Horsea that were all low-level enough with weak enough moves to not one-hit the damn birds. And before that battle, I’d been wondering what the fuck I would ever need hundreds of a particular berry for, given that I’ve only had access to Isle Aplenny for a few days but already have hundreds of berries across many types. I wonder no more. 😛 i mean, i can’t imagine enjoying the game if I SOS chained like that for a full day out of every few, but it’s good to know there’s a potential use.
M + I did some Festival Plaza collab shit. it’s been confirmed: I know nothing about type weaknesses. I got 3 correct answers and she got like 14. I wanted to die, I was choking on shame
later in the evening I did some actual human being-type activities. (aside from continuing to forget my wet laundry heaped in the dryer getting musty.) I went back through Friday’s cl postings (not much), and started looking at community events, classes, and the like. There’s some weekly drawing classes nearbyish but…. they cost money, money that we probably don’t have atm. Money that I’m not sure we will have by the time the classes start. Which just brings me back to the jobs section of cl. 😛 I guess my current job and the things I wish I could do with my software skill set have made me want to have a better understanding of visual art, as a creator. It would be really nice to have a class that involves going out into the community, being around people, having some kind of structured environment… all for the low, low cost of 20% of my last paycheck. for example.
from cl, i jumped to meetup. finally made an account and optimistically subscribed to a bunch of different groups. but i mean…. i don’t feel like i’m over-promising. I just want to get aggregated info on all these groups + their events in one spot first, then go from there. Most of the stuff they post isn’t really for my area anyway, and I have yet to figure out the location-based search function (if it’s working at all). You know what sucks about it, though? There’s a lot of tech-leaning groups that interest me, but that I’d be a complete noob at, and it’s clear from the introductions that they aren’t talking to ppl on my level. PLS I NEED HELP GETTING THE MOTIVATION AND KNOWLEDGE TO GET TO YOUR LEVEL EVEN WHEN I’M REALLY INTERESTED 🙁 but on the bright side, there is a queer community place nearby and i so wanna attend some shit there. as long as it isn’t all at 5 fucking pm in the middle of rush hour aahhh fuck driving. there are opportunities, but nothing super ideal, overall. i hope i keep using it.
from meetup, next stop was fb, to see if there were any attached meetup groups i was somehow not being shown over there… and then…. it was weird. my feed didn’t make me feel like a piece of shit immediately. sort of. it’s still clear to me how everyone is out accomplishing things and i’m just sitting here inching closer to my true potato form. but tonight instead of it feeling overwhelming, it felt… energizing, and cool to see what my friends were doing, i guess. even if none of them consider me a friend anymore.
I hope it stays energizing and not overwhelming, but that’s probably too much to hope. expectations ahoyhoy, esp. on as little sleep as i’m gonna get tonight. I hope I do something… although tomorrow i need to do groceries and laundry, lol.