On the Hunt

The tension, the excitement, the sitting on the edge of your seat quite literally. 

So, for like the past week or so I've been actively Pokémon hunting with the Pokémon Go game with my roommates.
Why? Because the Legendary Birds have been released, and we're wanting to catch them.

But for whatever reason, I've been unable to catch them at all. 
And I was growing quite discouraged. 

But today, finally, FINALLY it changed.
First one bird, and then a second. And suddenly. I had caught two of the three legendary birds!!

Sooo exciting!!

However, that tense excitement, that super focus, that forgoing of my regular after work nap....has left me with a slight ache behind the eyes. 
But ah. It was worth it. So very worth it to finally have a success after multiple failures. ^^ Yay. 

Up All Night

She'd been all bright smiles and energy for the entirety of the project. So it was quite disconcerting to see her, curled up in a ball in a shadowy corner of the hallway, looking pale, and ill. 
"Taysia?" He called out cautiously, unsure how to react. "Are...you alright?" 
She looks up then, and now he sees the dark circles under her eyes, the shakiness to her hand as she waves him off. "I'm fine." she says with a wane smile. 
He chooses to approach. "You don't look fine, what happened?" 
She shrugged, looking down. "I only got a couple of hours of sleep." She admitted in a low tone. 
He blinked. A couple of hours?! He slid down the wall to sit next to her. "Why did you get so little sleep! How are you still functioning?" He demanded. 
She shrugged again. "I was needed." 
"You could have gone home hours ago!"
"Call me stubborn." 
"You are." He agreed, hesitantly rubbing her back, she tensed, but then relaxed, resting her head against her knees again with a quiet mmm in response. 

-Inspiration from staying up all night

Long Shift

There's a reason why I don't like night shifts.
And it's because I have to expend a lot more energy dealing with customers because instead of only dealing with them for 4 or 5 hours of my shift, I have to deal with them the entire 8 hour shift.
And with so much interaction and not a lot of tasking....
It tires me out rather quickly.
Drains my energy levels rather quickly.
Tenses me up rather quickly....

And so I'm no longer really surprised when I end up with a slight headache as I get off of work.
Because I'm taxed out by the end of my evening shift.
I can't handle the energy strain any more.
And it seems to manifest itself into a headache. *exhales*

Now to make it go away....

Me: Sooo I kinda need to socialize today.
Brain: But...but you said we'd write!!
Me: I know..I know...I'm sorry....but I kinda got to...
Brain: *huffs* 
Me: We'll try to write later I promise.
Brain: I won't feel like it later!! I want to write now!

Marked

I'd scrubbed at the mark on my hand for at least fifteen minutes now, and it didn't look any different. Desperately squeezing more soap onto my hand I tried again. "Come on come on come on AGH!!!" It wasn't coming off this odd mark that I'd gotten at work. It had to come off, I couldn't stand it. This black oval circle now on the side of my thumb. I needed it to go away. I couldn't focus with this mark here mocking me. My hands needed to be free of marks. And this one...this one wasn't letting up easy. 

-Inspiration from a conversation with a coworker

Hunting in the Heat

Slight headache today, but I think it's because of being outside in the heat, staring at a tiny screen in a tense position, as me and my roomies have been pokemon hunting like crazy today to take advantage of event currently going on. *shakes head* But I think the heat got to me, so a bit more liquid and a chance to cool down and get some rest will hopefully make the headache go away. :) 

A Hunting We Will Go

We'd been hunting for hours. For the rare creatures rumored to be hiding out somewhere among these trees. I'd seen the results of others success. More than once. But for whatever reason, my traps would not catch this elusive creature. I'd switched up the bait, the location, the timing. But to no avail. It remained elusive, and with each passing hour my hopes faded even further. Everyone else was finding it. Why couldn't I? Why was there no luck heading my way? 

-Inspiration from trying to catch a legendary creature in Pokémon Go