It’s not actually Final Fantasty 14’s patch day. Well, you might be reading this on patch day, but I’m writing this ahead of patch day and my frustration with needing to work when I could be playing whatever new, exciting content is available has reached bad through time and left me feeling grumpy and frustrated before I’ve even been denied access by my busy work schedule. So annoying is it that time has violated causality and I am preemptively upset about events not yet come to pass! Which, to be honest, is because it’s quite easy to anticipate how busy I’m going to be next week and how much I’ll want to play the new patch despite being stuck at work for ten hours a day (eleven, if I include my commute), which means I probably won’t make much progress through any of what it has to offer unless I stay up late every night. I am trying very hard to break that habit, and that is more important than playing this game, but I am still frustrated that I can’t really take it easy during the release week for this patch because of all my work obligations and my need for overtime (since I haven’t gotten much at all so far this year). The decision I must make is clear, I’m just… I’m just annoyed about it. I’ve been excited about where the story is going, and all the new features they’re adding for months now and I’ve been too burned out to get myself stable enough to take a light week. So I must work and figure out if I’m going to take off friday for the May Day protest thing going on (still trying to figure out if it’s legit and a part of any of my existing networks).