Log Activity #4

Cara Loves Coffee
Activity Log 4 - 05.31.2026

This whole thing still feels like either an elaborate scheme or maybe just a fantastical bout of mental illness. Because the actual idea that I am working, or am about to work, for an intergalactic coffee bean company… let’s just face it. It’s bananas.

And in addition to that, I’m now being told that my required training is going to involve leaving the planet.

And I don’t mean in a “Katy Perry got launched into the upper atmosphere by Blue Origin” kind of way.

I mean leaving the planet. Off of it.

Like Artemis II, except instead of orbiting the Moon, apparently I’ll be landing on it and spending three days there training for my new job.

Seriously, I keep waiting for them to expose the hidden cameras, cruise out the fake sets, and tell me this has all been some kind of bizarre reality show.

And I have SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Questions that, so far, I am being told either:
“You’ll know when you need to know.”
or
“It’s already being handled.”

Which honestly feels wildly insufficient.

Question number one: how exactly am I getting to the Moon?

Question number two: what am I supposed to wear that will allow me to breathe on the Moon?

Question number three: where will I even be staying while I’m there?

Question number four: will I be alone? Will there be other people there? Other… beings?

Question number five: how exactly do I get back from the Moon afterward?

I feel like these are all extremely fair questions. Questions I deserve answers to.

Will any of this stop me from taking the job?

Probably not.

It also doesn’t help that after multiple failed attempts, my training paperwork finally arrived, only to experience so much transmission interference that much of it either failed to encrypt correctly or became completely unreadable.

Large sections make absolutely no sense.

I’ve tried scanning the documents multiple times to upload them so somebody else could maybe help decipher them, but every scan comes through blank.

So it looks like I’m on my own.

Also, I don’t know why, but I feel compelled to document this:

The day my training paperwork finally made it through, there was a fluffy black cat sitting outside my house staring directly into the window at me.

Not casually looking around.
Not wandering through the yard.

Just sitting there.

Watching me.

It was… unnerving.

Then today, while I was putting away laundry, I shut my closet door and for just a second  I swear I saw that same black cat again.

Only this time it looked smaller. Thinner somehow.

It was sitting inside the closet staring back at me just before the door latched shut.

When I immediately opened the door again, the closet was empty.

And before anyone asks:
No, my cats have not behaved strangely at all.

No hissing.
No hiding.
No staring at corners.
Nothing that would make me think another animal is somehow getting into the house.

There may be a delay before my next activity log entry.

Apparently my lunar training is expected to begin “at any time now,” which is somehow the only timeline information I’ve been given.

Without much more detail than that, it’s difficult to predict when I’ll be able to post again.

Until then, Stay Caffeinated.