Turtle & Canary; Monday [10/18].

[white_oleander]

Maybe it was just because Astrid had to go to work after a morning class after a vacation, but it didn't take long, walking into the store to do all her inventory and orders for the week, that she wondered if maybe half the reason Summer left for space was just to get out of having to deal with Apu-on-a-Monday.

Which wasn't much different than Apu on any other day, but this particular Monday seemed to involve filling the store with a bunch of different chairs, most of them thankfully on wheels, and constantly moving them around to different positions.

Most of those positions just so happened to be directly in Astrid's path, which she could only assume was absolutely intentional, despite his playing innocent about it.

She definitely didn't have the energy to explain that he was probably misinterpreting International Adjust Your Chair Day significantly, especially since she felt she was way behind on Halloween stuff for the store, and then Thanksgiving would be here before she knew it, and, actually? Maybe just being a starving artist was more preferable than dealing with the special brand of retail hell that was end-of-the-year holidays.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Chocolate Cupcake
Country Ham
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

Furnado Animal Shelter; Monday [10/18].

[kawaii_complex]

When Sakaki got back to work after the vacation, she was expecting to discover that a week off did not somehow manage to magically endear all the cats in the shelter to her, and she was expecting to be sharing a lot of stories with the various animals about other various animals she had seen on the trip.

She was not expecting bats.

A part of her wondered if she should have been expecting bats, but she hadn't, and even though they had frightened her a great deal at first, due to being so unexpected and having heard so many stories of bats getting caught in people's hair (and she had a lot of hair!), not to mention vampires and things like that....she....found that they weren't actually so bad! She hated when they swooped together, giving her a startled fright every time, but when they actually settled and she got a closer look at that, she discovered that they were actually surprisingly adorable, and she was very quickly falling in love.

She may have even started sewing together a few bat plushies!

Erm, well. They were supposed to be bat plushies, anyway. They ended up just looking more like bug-eyed blobs with uneven wings. But she was trying!

Furnado is open!

The Photo Hut; Monday [10/18].

[hashtag_chocobro]

So, Prompto had a job!

Well, Prompto actually currently already had two jobs (he was turning into a real Summer Smith over here or something!), between the Crownsguard gig and the whole teaching thing, but how could he have refused picking up maybe a shift or something here and there, while he was still on the island, at helping to get the photo shop in town back up and running? It wasn't really a job, anyway; it was kind of just an excuse for him to get to mess around with a lot of equipment and hopefully geek out with some fellow photography minded people before things got to a point where the Crownsguard gig was going to kind of be the only gig. Which....probably won't be too long, really...

And that was exciting, but it was also very daunting and intimidating, so he was going to try not to think about it too much. And, considering that he figured, if it wasn't for the Crownsguard, he'd probably want to do something like professional photography for a career, this was kind of a neat way to imagine that alternative.

For now, though, he was mostly just going to familiarize himself with a lot of the equipment and merch, especially in processing the loads of pictures he took on his vacation, maybe trying to find some other little things he could get finished up to make things easier for Liz as she got things going.

And reminding himself that, no, no, he really didn't need another camera, but, well, his birthday was coming up, if anyone needed some suggestions!

The Photo Hut is open!

The Magic Box, Monday

[existencemisspent]

Eliot had managed to dodge this particular duty on the island for the last couple weeks, citing a) trauma from being a ghost for a weekend and b) no one else being around for the week anyway. But this week, things were dreadfully back to normal, so he was here, side-eying the tacky Halloween decor, and attempting to find the giant skeleton a fashionable hat.

And, you know, stocking shelves and attempting to sell magic things. That, too.

Trooper Station, Monday, October 18, 2021

[grenadesandohana]

Steve and Danny were back from their trip to Honolulu, tanned and not at all relaxed thanks to someone trying to weaponize bees to spread bird flu. Danny was halfway through a truly inspired rant about what would happen if the Bee Lady found out about such flagrant bee abuse when he turned into a cat and dropped his favorite coffee mug in mid-transformation.

So now Steve was having an impromptu Take Your Cat (But Not Really) to Work Day.

"Told you cats were awesome," he told Danny, who deliberately padded across Steve's desk and then pushed his coffee cup off the edge.

"Asshole," Steve laughed.

The station was open, if not especially helpful.

Fix and Clean- Monday

[alwaysonguard]

The week in Boston had been a great time and while Dwight certainly enjoyed all the fineness and luxury the trip had offered there was something strangely comforting about being back home. Simple man, simple pleasures. It didn't take a lot to keep him content and in some ways all the excess had almost become suffocating by the end of the trip.

So, there was Dwight, back in the workshop dusting things off and getting back into a better routine, though he had to admit it would take a little while to fully get back into the swing of things. He had skipped his morning run after all. There would be a time to get back into that particular routine... but it was not today. Instead, he was pulling out some materials and getting the work bench set up to start working on a few things, the coffee pot full of coffee, and the doors to the shop open.



(Fix and Clean shop is open!)

Caritas, Monday

[1000yearstoolate]

It had been a good trip, distracting, and Seivarden had reminded herself that she probably shouldn't be surprised by the lack of civilised behaviour shown by the locals (past and present). Back at Caritas things got back to normal though, and normal right now for her was mostly miserable.

She actually tried though. She really did. She found a random drink list.

Tonight's Specials
Moscow Mule
Dirty Martini

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