Week 15

First week of being funemployed! It was very weird. By Wednesday I had lost track of what day it was, and I kept thinking it was a Saturday. By Friday I was overwhelmed with capitalism guilt and thinking that I HAD to do something to “stay productive”. What a fake idea y’all; it hadn’t even been a full week of vacation!

I got vaccinated!!! I had no side effects other than a very sore arm, which is strange because my immune system is the golden retriever of immune systems and doesn’t miss a free opportunity to throw a fever on something.

Games update: Played “Cozy Grove” (comes on many platforms. I played it on my phone but it’s also on the switch. It’a cute Animal Crossing like island game with daily tasks), and “Dear Reader” (I played it on my iPhone. It’s a very cute literary game where you “read” a book by unscrambling text puzzles in sentences. I’m super curious about how they summarize the book, because it feels very well done. I “read” Flatland like that, and you totally get the gist of the whole story while obviously not reading the whole book. Pretty neat)

I was on a podcast, and it was proper fun. Dan is a really nice and thoughtful interviewer. I was joking with him that I’ve been a bit traumatized by podcasts since this weird show I was on a while back about Web Components, where the hosts wanted to just produce drama and stir shit; I think they even opened up with something like “this could be the Jerry Springer of JavaScript” and I was like……am I the pregnant 16 year old without a baby daddy in this story because I think I should be offended. Anyway. This podcast wasn’t anything like that, and I thoroughly loved being on it.

Also my hair looked great.

I got to the Big Reveal on the Mentalist and I gotta say: it was very good. Unsual for a procedural show to have like a very strong arc, but this was a thing that was 5 seasons in the making and it was great. Unfortunately this means I am reaching the end of this show and I don’t have a next procedural lined up!!!

Dog has an ear infection and it’s incredibly gross. Golden Retrievers have a lot of ear.

I think the trick to “exercising” is just living in yoga pants and sports bras. I am 100% more likely to exercise if I’m already dressed for it, because the thought of changing into yoga pants from whatever potato sack outfit I’m wearing just to go exercise seems daunting. Is this a life hack? Also, what is wrong with my brain that changing into different clothes seems like an unmeasurable amount of effort?

Actually don’t answer that.