#lunch breaks

These last few days, Living With Ghosts has received an unexpected influx of downloads and even rose up to a high spot in the Popular Games tab! I'm really surprised and happy to see that more folks are giving the game a chance now, after it originally kind of flew under the radar in its initial release year. <3

In other news, progress on Lunch Breaks is coming along!

I'm currently doing the directing - setting the sceneries and character sprites for each line - and making steady progress each day. Here's a little glimpse of scenes that are already done! (Don't mind the UI, it's still the old interface from Invisible Seams right now.)

Chris Hemsworth stars in “Crime 101,” which will be released in February 2025. There are so many MCU Alumni, maybe they shot the movie during the lunch breaks from “Avengers: Doomsday”.

Chris Hemsworth - Thor

Halle Berry - Storm

Mark Ruffalo - Hulk

Nick Nolte - Bruce Banner’s Dad

Barry Keoghan - from the Eternals

Corey Hawkins - Iron Man 3

Dear Prudence, Slate, 23 November 2021:

Q. My wife wrote a secret book: My wife is an accomplished author who also holds down a fulltime job in an unrelated field, mostly for the benefits. When we had our first child last year, we agreed that she would pause her writing career—something had to go with a new baby at home.

Except, it turns out she didn’t pause it. She got a great idea for a new novel, wrote it secretly during her lunch break at work, and sold it for $100,000. I feel so many things right now; it’s hard to be mad at someone when they casually tell you your son’s college education is now paid for, and her lunch hour is technically hers to do as she wishes. But she went against our deal! She could have been home an hour earlier every night this year if she hadn’t done this project, and when I think back on all the times she’s been tired or grumpy in the past year, I now blame the book (even though it could have just been caring for a newborn). How do I trust her to keep to her word? How should I feel right now?

Dear My Wife Wrote A Secret Book,

I think there's only one thing a person can feel when their wife had a baby, worked a full time job, and wrote a novel on her lunch break that she later sold for a six-figure advance such that it never fucking affected you for a single moment until it became the subject of your whole family's wild financial success: absolutely fucking enraged at her unbelievably rude self-centeredness!

Who the entire fuck did this bitch think she was, being a parent while setting the entire family up for an easy, debt-free college send-off while being a creative fucking genius, when she could have just as easily not done any of that because she owes you every last fucking minute of her whole-ass life? She could have preserved the most precious thing in the world — a promise she made that she in no way broke by doing a thing you didn't even notice she was doing — or, she could have stifled a great idea so that you and she and your child could be saddled with life-long debt!

Honestly, the gall.

Women are getting mighty uppity these days; many, like your wife apparently, believe they can "have it all" by spending every waking moment trying to hold the whole world's shit together and funding it, besides! When what they really should be doing is keeping their good fucking ideas to themselves and sitting down, shutting up, and making sure no one else has a nice time, ever. You owe it to yourself and your child to make sure the poor example your wife has set is never repeated again, lest people give you every last gift they have to offer so that you never worry for a single dang moment about anything ever.

The truth is, you can't trust your brilliant, creative, awful, and bad wife to keep her word! She may get entirely out of pocket and do some further absolute perversity such as

writing more novels that keep your family in financial comfort indefinitely

doing so while not at all interfering with you or any of your dip-ass nonsense

making sure everybody has enough to eat and a place to live

being smart and cool as hell

even if it's hard and stressful and makes her occasionally grumpy and tired

Do you work twelve hours? Then I believe you should have a hour break for every four hour period of work, and your breaks must happen every four hours. No adding break hours together at the end, beginning, or middle of the work day.

You also deserve a fifteen minute break every two hours. So in an eight hour day, I think you should have a single one hour lunch, plus two fifteen minute breaks.

Another nurse and I were complaining the other day about how we almost never get a lunch break, that is a full 30 minutes away from the desk where someone else has responsibility for your patient(s).

My first job out of nursing school on a trauma step down (PCU) we got one full hour where we handed over our phone and responsibility for our 2-5 patients to another nurse for the full hour. We could even leave the hospital to go get lunch around downtown! We were basically guaranteed it and the charge nurse would come hunt you down if you hadn’t taken your lunch, no matter how busy you were.

My second year nursing I worked in an LDRP unit and I worked night shift which was a little different, we were given 30 minutes that I got almost every night but no one would watch out for you patient(s). You were expected to continue watching your fetal tracings from the break room and answer call lights if the secretary called into the break room.

My current job is strictly L&D and we are supposed to get 30 minutes lunch. I almost never get 30 minutes away from the desk, uninterrupted. And rarely without having to review my fetal tracings. I can sometimes run downstairs if I need to get lunch from the cafeteria… but no guarantees it will be before 2:30 when they stop serving lunch. It has been around 4 or 5 pm before I get a break many times.. 

There doesn’t seem to be more focus on making sure we get our lunch. Also if we turn in no lunch slips we get nasty looks and allegedly a “talking to” if you turn in too many no lunch slips. Except… it is ILLEGAL to not receive state mandated breaks at work, or to be bullied into not submitting slips to get paid for time you work. 

So I want to know what the lunch policy is and actually looks like where you work as an RN. 

Where do you work? Hospital vs outpatient vs doctor’s office, what unit. What the policy is for lunch and what that actually looks like day to day with how much time you get. Also, are you part of a nursing union and how does that factor in?

I guess you can’t make posts answerable anymore… So reblog with your answers.  

How they'd pay/share? 

They’d probably trade off. The more expensive places that Lena frequents, she’d pay because as much as Kara hates it when Lena pays for everything, she admits that her reporter salary couldn’t afford that on a regular basis and Lena really doesn’t mind paying for Kara. But Kara does take it on herself to pay at least once in a while for both of them, and when they go to more reasonable places, they split the bill. (Though since Kara eats more, Lena usually ends up paying more since they go 50/50. But like I said, Lena doesn’t mind. She has more money than she knows what to realistically do with and she enjoys Kara’s company so much that paying for lunch is such a small price to pay). 

What kind of place they often pick? 

Initially, it was Kara introducing Lena to small, local, hole in the wall places that not very many people knew about. Kara knows about all the best places in the city because she eats takeout so much. And Lena, while not being a complete snob about food (she is human after all), hasn’t experienced all of the places that Kara would talk about and Kara felt an obligation to give Lena those experiences. 

But, Lena does like treating Kara to nicer places that she would normally frequent. Kara would always be excited to experience it, but the portions are so small, it was an unspoken rule between the two of them that after, they would get donuts from this boutique bakery that both Kara and Lena liked and take it back to Lena’s office if she didn’t have any meetings after lunch. 

And after a while, they would get adventurous and try new places that neither of them had been to. Lots of times it would be new places that Lena was able to get reservations or early visits to because she’s a Luthor and she’d bring Kara as her plus one. 

What kind of food/dessert they'd have? 

Everything and anything really. Kara is not a picky eater at all, though she obviously has her favorite things; pizza and potstickers. When in doubt they’d go to a local pizzeria or Chinese place. Lena didn’t mind, but she did take it upon herself to make Kara eat healthy food at least once a week. Even though Kara doesn’t really need it, rather she just needs the calories. But Lena does have her weight to watch. And her health. She isn’t a walking trashcan like Kara. 

Do they share or try each other's food? 

Yes! Kara is usually really protective of her food. But Lena is the exception. They do that cute “feeding each other” thing that couples do (even if they’re not a couple). Also, Lena doesn’t have the same appetite as Kara so whatever Lena doesn’t finish, Kara always does. 

Who's more adventurous? 

Probably Kara. She’s from an alien planet with all sorts of different tastes and foods than Earth. She’s probably willing to try anything at least once. I mean, when she first came to Earth and was offered all these new foods, that’s probably the epitome of adventurous. 

Lena isn’t a picky eater either by any means, she just doesn’t have the same philosophy that “Any food is good food” that Kara has. But Kara does drag her along to different places and has her try all sorts of different foods that she didn’t get to experience growing up as a Luthor. Which Lena appreciates Kara for. 

Who's better with chopsticks?

Kara. Everyone would think Lena because as a businesswoman, she probably has a lot of business deals with cultures that use them. And that’s not to say she’s bad with them, she just doesn’t really care to use them when she’s not on business. Kara loves her Chinese food and wanted to explore different cultures when she was still learning about Earth and chopsticks intrigued her so much that she wanted to learn to master them. Especially because they were associated with her favorite ethnic food type. 

Additional Headcanons

Sometimes Lena just can’t get away from the office and Kara picks up food and brings it to Lena (to Jess’ dismay because Kara keeps fucking up Lena’s schedule) just to make sure Lena eats. Kara doesn’t stay all the time, especially when Lena is actually busy with paperwork. Or if she’s in a meeting through lunch, she leaves the food with Jess. Lena is always appreciative that Kara cares enough about her to bring her food, knowing that she would probably have foregone lunch if she hadn’t.