Caritas, Friday Evening

[newroutines]

Mike had been working a whole bunch since the latest bit of total island insanity had ended. Like, a whole bunch. Of mostly odd jobs around the mainland. And he hadn't had a lot of time to actually take stock of what his earnings were like.

So if it looked like he was kind of doing some bookkeeping while manning the bar, that was just because he was.

Tino did not offer to help with anything.

[OOC: No ocd because it's that kind of week.]

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[throughaphase]

"You look busy," Kitty said, taking a seat at the bar.

[newroutines]

"Well, I've been busy for about a week," Mike replied, shrugging. "This is just sorta... taking stock of having been busy."

[throughaphase]

"Is at at least the good kind of busy that you're taking stock of?" she asked.

[newroutines]

"It's the kind of busy where at least I won't be going broke in the immediately forseeable future."

Which was good enough for him, at least.

"Although it's also the kind of busy where I'm kind of wiped out and want to just lay down all weekend. But it's cool."

[throughaphase]

"Nothing wrong with laying down all weekend," Kitty told him. "I think it's vastly underrated."

[newroutines]

Mike chuckled. "Funnily enough, that's kinda my take on it too," he said. "So, I better not turn into something weird tomorrow."

[throughaphase]

"Haven't you escaped like 95% of the weirdness here?" she said. "I'm sure you'll be fine. I don't even worry about jinxing it."

[newroutines]

"Hey, now, when I don't get hit with the weird, I still have to deal with y'all acting strange," he objected. "I wouldn't call that escaping."

[throughaphase]

"There is definitely a difference between being affected and dealing with it, though," she said. "Namely, you don't do anything embarrassing and/or terrible to deal with afterwards."

[newroutines]

"I don't get embarrassed easily." Terrible was a whole different story that he wasn't going to get into. "And, I don't know, man. Dealing with Derek when he turns into a kid or a baseline happy person is a hard thing."

[throughaphase]

"True. But it's worse on his end," Kitty said.

Not that she'd had any recent experiences like that or anything.