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[bismuth209]

fannish thought: I should write a fake dating fic. Technically i am already writing one, but it's been with me for 4 years without being finished, and i should write another one. a quicker one. i also love fake dating but to the left from usual. For example, if A and B are fake dating, but B and C are endgame, and maybe even A and C being very close friends (but A has elected to not tell C that the dating is fake), and then C feels massively guilty for being into their best friend's new partner (and may also think that B is hetero- or homosexual when they're not (A and C being different genders), adding to the drama). I read a fic like that once and i want to read more.

what i'm creating: i was writing the answer to the above question, and i realised, it's past 23:00 and i haven't written ANY words for my nano fic yet. So that's what i spent about 20 minutes doing. Not long enough, in a way, i am in the red now in terms of on-scheduleness. Wrote 39 words, also watched a routine by Adam Rippon and listened to some music he skated to separately, for a line about figure skating music and of course Adam Rippon. That was mostly unnecessary. But not entirely!

i accomplished this! i'm trying to put this bit behind a cut but idk if it's working!. i woke up late this morning, and fully realised around 12:00 i needed to check my email to confirm that i needed to be somewhere at 13:00, or ideally sooner, and got into a bit of a panic about it. I ended up adjusting my plans, initially the plan was to do a half shift at the museum i volunteer at to learn how to work the register, and specifically the first half. I don't have the stamina for a full shift, so i work half shifts. I decided to buy myself some time and simply learn the second half of how the register works, some of the regular business, and closing up.
I found out when I read my email carefully, that the lady who does the scheduling did not clearly at all communicate that i'd be working half-shifts to learn as well. And by not clearly, i mean she did not. So that gave me an easy way to say "Well I clearly communicated I'd be working half shifts, and i just realised that's not clear from the email, i'll be there around 15:00"
Was however still called a little before 13:00 about where i was, the email i sent about 20 minutes prior wasn't read.
And I went, and took a shower before, and it was all fine there, and i feel confident about doing the register now, partially. And there's a book there with detailed instructions on how the software works, that the person i was learning from just always has with her when she works the register. Which i'll be doing too (a paper printed tutorial! i think it's lovely and a bit quaint. Semi-related, most of the people who volunteer at the museum (all but 1 person who work at the museum are volunteers) are pensioners. I am VERY young, being early 20s

something i want: to figure out how i'll use capitalisation on dreamwidth. excuse the figuring it out phase!

and now, the weather: 'Cause it's who we are / doesn't matter if we've gone too far / doesn't matter if it's not okay / doesn't matter if it's not our day / stay strong / what we are / don't look back and it's all uphill from here.

the actual weather: somehow quite sunny! it's been a while since we saw the sun <-- what i wrote when i started writing this in the afternoon, the weather got overcast by the time i was going home, and the sun is currently being blocked by the earth on account of the aforementioned near-midnight

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[bismuth209]

okay so the cut WORKED but my custom text disappeared! very interesting. must explore further. or be told how it works. i was looking at the faq page, not sure what i did wrong

[spacedogfromspace]

Is the weather a Welcome to Nightvale reference??

Okay, cuts. That one works but it only shows up on reading pages, as soon as you click into the post it just auto expands and your text is gone. Which is nice sometimes but if you want a cut with a text heading that sticks around no matter what, you can use

<details><summary>Title Text</summary>
main text
</details>

Which then looks like this:

Title Text

main text

also fake dating fics are fun

[bismuth209]

i feel they could have mentioned that on the FAQ page on cuts! thanks for telling me!

[spacedogfromspace]

yeah it's weird how you can't find it elsewhere. It's just passed from user to to user. xD I had another user teach it to me. And now I have passed on the knowledge lol

[shadowbliss]

Sounds interesting. Look forward to reading the fic.

[selyxis]

It's cool that you're a museum volunteer! And the fic sounds like it'll be a good read if you go ahead with it.

[bewilderedbird]

I didn't even know that museums had volunteers. That's nice :) Do you work the register the whole shift or are there other responsibilities as well?

[bismuth209]

this was my first time doing anything with the register. there's usually 3 people in the museum, 1 on the register and 2 whose job title is "host" i think, which involves doing not-tours (officially tours cost money, and require reservations, so we're not supposed to call what we tell regular people a tour)

whether museums have volunteers depends on their financial situation i think. the museum i volunteer at is rather poor, the one person who is paid isn't full-time either, because that is simply not possible.

the weekends are more busy, i think yesterday 31 people came in, and of those, 6 had to pay, others had cards that give free entry, which gives a certain amount of money to the museum in a more roundabout way. i have one of those cards, a museumcard that gives me free entry to about 500 museums for a year, did cost me about 50-60 euros, but i've already saved more than that i think, in about 4 months

[bewilderedbird]

Ah, I see. Makes sense that a museum is dependent on volunteers when it doesn't have much money to throw around.

We have cards like that, too, though I don't think you get access to that many museums. The price sounds very reasonable for what you get :)

[skye_writer]

Huzzah for getting writing in! Doesn't matter that it wasn't a lot; every word is important!! :D

What kind of museum do you volunteer at?