mistressofmuses

I'm already dreading tomorrow. I've gotten an absolute deluge of emails to my work email. (I don't check it on my days off, but the alerts come across my phone, so I read the preview of the message.) Already had one "hey, someone called out with Covid - please reschedule all their shit" email, plus another one with "hey, you've got a high sales goal this weekend, and I left you a note about how ridiculous the weekend is going to be, and I know you'll have no time for anything, but just in case, here's a big time-consuming project!" (As well as more forwards from that stupid callback system that came through as I'm writing this post.)

I'm just kind of in general feeling burned out, but in a way I can't even quite explain. Idk, I guess I feel like I just don't have a lot of escape right now? A lot of the burnout is work, and I'm definitely not alone in the general Pandemic Fatigue feelings. But I don't feel like I have anywhere terribly positive to retreat to.
Several communities I'm in on Facebook have been consumed with a ton of drama. (And like... sometimes extremely vitriolic hatred for the thing the community is structured around. I'm not a "never criticize a thing you like" person by any stretch, but... like, why are you bombarding fan comms with stuff about how upset you are that none of the characters are 100% good or perfect people, and you don't understand how so many people like them? Find a different show, or a different comm to complain in.)
I realize that this is also one of the big dangers of social media in general, because controversy/negativity generates clicks. But it feels like every time in the last week I've scrolled through FB or tumblr for more than about five minutes I've been hit with SOME kind of big drama of some kind, whether it's serious or not. (Like my rant about the Perseverance landing... it feels like anything that any number of people are happy about invites at least some subset of people to barge in and tell them how awful they are for it. Not just a refusal to enjoy it, but to actively attack people for being happy about something.) It's not like that's a new phenomenon, it just feels like it's hit a lot of places extra hard in the last week or so, or maybe I'm just oversensitive to it.
The obvious answer is to probably just take a break from that kind of stuff... but then that means that I have NO social interaction whatsoever, so I feel a little... trapped. I can read/watch/listen/play my own stuff, but I'm a fannish creature: I want to share my enjoyment.

DW tends to be the lowest drama space (or at least people keep it in appropriate places), so maybe I should just stick to here, haha.

I did finish River of Teeth last night, and really enjoyed it! It was far more on the "brain candy" side of the scale than the "serious literature" side, but I really want to be clear that that is not a complaint! It was a fast read, and I had fun the whole time. It was like reading my own "every trope I want to see in one id-fic" as written by someone else. "Here's a fun alternate history, featuring an ensemble cast that mostly have various shades of grey morality, but also it is just going to be like SUPER queer, and secretly it's about Revenge." Also feral hippos.
Honestly, I do think it might have been better extended into a novel, so that some of the tension and character dynamics could have been a little more drawn out, but if that's the worst I can say about it...

I'm gonna take the dog out, and maybe nudge Alex, since I don't think he wanted to take a nap quite this long.