Wandering Adventure Party

I was getting dressed to walk over to the pharmacy and I couldn't find one of my boot socks. I looked all over before noticing my left foot looked much bigger than my right. I'd put both socks on one foot.

Hey y'all, it's Bandcamp Friday again, that wondrous semi-monthly holiday when Bandcamp waives its fees so more money goes to the artists. A lovely day to check out music from me or any of the other fine musicians you can find there!

https://willalalonde.bandcamp.com/

#music #FediMusic #BandcampFriday

I just released my first song of 2026 over on Bandcamp. This one was inspired by listening to a lot of K-pop/J-pop, and a desire to see how many voice banks I could corral into one song. It tells the story of a girl band that goes hiking in the woods, finds a spaceship, and decides to take it to Mars to party. As one does.

Road Trip to Mars, by Willa LaLonde

Road Trip to Mars by Willa LaLonde, released 28 January 2026 Road Trip to Mars (Yi Wei) We packed our bags, laces tight, the sun was bright Trails winding up the hills, hearts light Turn a corner, what's this in the sky? A rocket stands tall, ready to fly (Ayame, Eri) Do we dare, do we dare? Step inside, catch the air? Countdown starts, the engines roar Adventure waits, we want more (Solaria, Mai, Etta) Road trip to Mars, dancing past the stars Pink dust on our shoes, forget the scars Rocket fuel hearts, glitter in our veins On Mars we party, no earthly chains (Eri) Touchdown, who knew it’d be pink? (Ayame) Martian skies make us stop and think (Eri) Craters wide, lights neon bright (Ayame) We own this galaxy tonight (Nyl) Here on Mars, we got LCARS, we got Pon Farr, 400 megaklicks from our star (Yi Wei, Mai) Dreams and queens and flying machines (Nyl) Gravity ain’t for me we can bounce in point four gees (Eri) Akai suna Fune ga poton to Donchan-sawagi [translation: red sand the ship goes plop raucous party] (Solaria, Mai, Etta, Yi Wei, Mo Xu – with ad libs by Ayame, Eri) Road trip to Mars, dancing past the stars Pink dust on our shoes, forget the scars Rocket fuel hearts, glitter in our veins On Mars we party, no earthly chains (Eri, plus crowd) Pink sand Girl band Got a whole new world in our hands Time dilation Party elation Here on Mars on a permanent vacation (Nyl) We came for a hike, but we stayed the night Pink Mars, bright stars, everything feels right (Solaria, Mai, Etta, Yi Wei, Mo Xu, Ayame, Eri) Road trip to Mars!

Willa LaLonde (willalalonde.bandcamp.com)

#music #FediMusic #indietronica #BandCamp #hyperpop

Winter often fills me with an oppressive sense of doom, as nature, which is one of my best friends for the other 3/4 of the year, is now just continually trying to kill me.

Hey, it's Bandcamp Friday!

And sure, you could go listen to my music there (link in my profile), but you already know about me, so here's some of the albums I've bought from other artists that you might want to check out:

𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 by Strange New Places
https://strangenewplaces.bandcamp.com/album/second-puberty

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘊𝘈𝘉 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘵 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩) by Left at London
https://leftatlondon.bandcamp.com/album/transgender-street-legend-the-acab-anthology-assigned-compilation-at-birth

𝘚𝘩𝘦/𝘏𝘦𝘳/𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘴 by She/Her/Hers
https://sheherhers.bandcamp.com/album/she-her-hers

𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 by Katie Dey
https://katiedey.bandcamp.com/album/never-falter-hero-girl

#BandcampFriday #TransMusicians

Wishing y'all a warm International Day of Persons with Disabilities:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-of-persons-with-disabilities

I made it through the weekend alive, and am now in recovery mode.

I am sooo disheartened that this is my second weekend of 12-hour shifts this month, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 I have to go in at noon today. I want to be in a festive mood, but my heart's just not in it.

I'm just trying to hold on to the fact that I basically have all next week off to recover. But I have to make it through the 𝘯𝘰𝘸 to get to the 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯.

So they've finally emailed me back, and want to meet with me the next time I work, which is tomorrow (Friday).

So, you know, I'm not freaking out about that at all. /s

So, no email back. No one said anything when I went in to work. Nothing but crickets. 🦗

My best guess is either:
1) They're doing the ol' "Let's pretend this doesn't exist and hope the problem goes away on its own."
2) Or they're trying to figure out how to respond, probably to tell me to just deal with it but in some way that won't get them in ADA-based trouble.

I mean, I guess could also be optimistic and say they're just scrambling to get people to cover all the extra shifts they planned to dump on me.

I'm a "casual" employee at the hospital where I work, which basically means part-time with no benefits. I specifically applied for this sort of position because I can't do full time. 20 hours a week is about my speed, and that's what I told them (and what they agreed to) during the job interview.

For the first week of November they scheduled me for 6 out of 7 days, a 56 hour work week. I assumed it was an isolated incident and didn't complain at the time, although I was so burnt out by the end I needed multiple days to recover. The new schedule is out, and they've scheduled me for the same thing the last week of the month (6 out of 7 days, 56 hours).

So I spent much of this afternoon carefully crafting and sending an email about my concerns with the scheduling, and how this was not sustainable for me. I tried to emphasize how much I appreciated the job and enjoyed the work when scheduled within my capabilities, but also carefully explained how my capabilities are not the same as the next person's and why I need reduced hours.

Self advocacy does not come easy to me. No matter how careful I am with my words, I'm afraid they're going to take it the wrong way, because I don't really understand how allistic people think. Maybe they're just going to get pissed off at me for doing it in an email rather than in person, but I tried to explain why that was, too. But who knows how they'll take it.

Best case scenario they email me back about how they're adjusting the schedule to accommodate me. But I'm afraid they're just going to wait until my next work day (Tuesday) and want to talk to me in person and accuse me of wanting special treatment and tell me I just have to live with it.

And then what?

Psst... wanna hear a scary story?

I have today off, but then I have to work the next 6 out of 7 days at the hospital, starting with two 12-hour days this weekend.

Remember me fondly...

You may recall that I sporadically make and release music. Well, I just released the latest song that I've been working on, an ode to neurodivergent love, over on Bandcamp:

https://willalalonde.bandcamp.com/track/quirky

#music #FediMusic #BedroomPop #indietronica #ActuallyAustistic #NeurodivergentMusic

It's Tune Tuesday, and it looks like the theme is Wide Open Spaces. So I give you "The Stars" by Steam Powered Giraffe:

https://song.link/s/5OnT1uKyFo4SLJSobArlTn

#TuneTuesday #WideOpenSpaces #SteamPoweredGiraffe

Sunday would have been my mom's 78th birthday. She's been gone 4 ½ years now, but she was one of my best friends and I'll always miss her.

So now that I can post pictures again I have to get back into the swing of it, because I can't just post what I was originally going to post on Monday because those were specific pics for hashtag moth Monday and hashtag mushroom Monday and my brain won't let me post them today because it's not the right day and it just wouldn't be right.
🧠

@risa I was considering doing something like that, like posting on my old tech.lgbt account and boosting it or some such. But there's a limit to the amount of complications I can deal with right now

Well, I've been unable to post pictures here since the weekend. Scrolling my feed is painful, as every image just shows up as "Preview not available/Click to open" which I can click to open in a different tab but then I have to navigate back to my feed every time...

As you may have noticed, 90% of my communication here is image-based. So these have been a very stressful few days.

I'm not blaming the instance admins, as they're dealing with a difficult situation with the media server, but for my own mental health I'm seriously considering migrating to a new server.

It's another weekend of 12-hour shifts at the hospital.

Is it a drone shot of an alien planet, or is it a closeup of one of the benches at the local high school athletic field?

#TextureTuesday