Flying Saucer Video Disc 3 (pages 25-27)

(crashes through the door) HIIII!!!!!

Cam here! Thank you for waiting while I took an accidental break to sort my shit out! In the time since I last updated this page, life has been a bit non-stop! I continued to struggle back and forth with my adhd medication dosage (settled on a relatively low but comfortable dosage for now!), had some friends and family stay at my place and did some long overdue catching up, prepared for and tackled the most stressful job interview of my life (still waiting to hear back!), and put in my two weeks at my retail job!!

Things at work finally escalated to being totally unlivable for me. My boss and another manager who've treated all of us like garbage really singled me out, and it was honestly either quit or let it ruin the rest of my life. Nearly a month without energy to steadily work on comics proved that to me!

You may have seen my panicked posts about this, but with my notice I included a polite but honest email about why I quit and how my boss could treat staff better in the future. Because of this, I was asked not to come in for the rest of my shifts! This came as a big surprise and really threw me off right when I was getting back to some normalcy, but the good news is that the end result is basically a two week paid vacation to bring the last two years of my life to a close.

I do wish I had known that my last day would be, well, my last day. I managed to sneak in over the weekend when only the managers who stood up for me were working, and I got to have some closure and say goodbye to some of my coworkers. Luckily we're fairly close and I'll be able to keep in touch pretty easily, but even though I made the choice to quit, this made the process a bit rocky emotionally! I keep having dreams about just working and organizing bookshelves, which is very franky-core. Why am I having a toxic breakup with my part-time job right now?? As silly a silver lining as it is, the messy and conflicting feelings about the end of my retail job has also brought me a little bit more in tune with this project, hahaha. It's always been meaningful to me, but right now I'm especially glad it's the writing I get to fall back on!

Sorry to ramble, but I wanted to give a bit of a life update since my last few blog posts here talk about being overwhelmed and unable to keep up. Money will be tight for a bit while I find other work, so thank you for continuing to support me while things have been spotty! Truly without patreon I would have had no choice but to stay at that job and let it drain the life out of me. On to bigger and better things! For at least a month I'm planning to work full time on comics, opening an online store, and sorting out life while I casually look for other opportunities.

Next weeks pages will be on time for sure, and I'll be using these unexpected two weeks off to finalize my chapter 4 draft to send to my editor! Thank you for reading, as always 💕