There are so many toxins in the environment, what does it really matter if there's lead in the paint, lead in exhaust fumes, asbestos in the walls, DDT on our crops, cigarette smoke everywhere. What does it matter if we add one more thing?
Like I dunno, maybe we shouldn't make situations worse just because they're already bad? Maybe we could even strive to make things better?
I would love for this fuckin' dirtbike repair or whatever to not be happening right outside my room
Oz woke me up at 7 AM, having another rough morning for herself. Went back to sleep some time after eight, and then of course at eleven I needed to get up to feed Cael, and then I went back to sleep again until 12:30 but I really could have just slept forever. It's been grey all day, and rainy all evening. It's not super cold yet but I did break the space heater out to get the temperature in my room up just a little bit
I set up my computer in the guest room earlier than usual because I wanted to jump in to the professor's office hours to ask what questions I got wrong on the tests -- on the vocab quiz I misread a couple of questions, and then when we looked at the grammar quiz the professor said that my answer had been marked wrong incorrectly but then after I left she messaged me saying that it had been marked correctly after all and we'd both just missed the problem with the given translation. The problem was that the Japanese said 'piano' and the English said 'guitar' and I don't know how I missed that twice let alone how the professor missed it herself. Makes Stupid Mistakes Syndrome.
So then I hung out in the guest room for like an hour, studying, and then I needed to go lay down for a while before class because this weather has my joints Bad. Class itself was alright but I'm starting to get left behind and really need to buckle down and study the materials more.
We did a breakout room to do a pair exercise that I have no idea how we were supposed to do it with three people, but it didn't actually matter because my partners were (seemingly) outright ignoring me, which was very ?????. Anyway it turns out I was muted, because zoom automatically mutes you when you enter or exit a breakout room and I always forget that happens. We did do a second breakout room with the same groups and I was able to be like 'So I hadn't realised I had been muted before!' and they were like 'Oh we were wondering why you weren't saying anything, we just assumed you were having connection problems'
Yesterday, ash and I watched the new V/H/S, Halloween and it was pretty good. A couple of very good stories and a few average ones, I don't think there were any that I would outright call bad though one of them is very problematic as it features a black person stereotype turning out to be a child-abusing serial murderer and he also happens to be the only black character in that story, so. The effects in that one were well done and the story itself was alright if you ignore the casting, though also I'm not super into the whole 'stranger danger' genre of horror. Anyway
Today we watched the 5th season finale of Worst Cooks, which is unfortunately the last season with Bobby Flay as the cohost until season 17. It also was a little mediocre as an episode, neither of us ended up paying a whole lot of attention to it
I think I've mentioned I'm rewatching Dragula, and I just finished the 6th episode of the second season and Oh My God I hate James Majesty. I'd forgotten how much I fucking hate them they're such an asshole. And they make it to the end of the season and I remember being so frustrated by that. Abhora I also remember disliking a lot, but after seeing them in a couple of future seasons (and this current Titans season) they've grown on me a bit and I can really see how much they're struggling in season 2, mentally. They've definitely got Some Shit going on, and are a personality type that people like Majesty can just run over and really fuck up and I'm really rooting for them to do well in the new season now that they seem to be doing better and healthier (I hope!).
Disasterina has also grown on me in that I don't really like her style of drag but god can I appreciate a queen who is Too Old For This Shit and just doesn't involve herself much with all the Drama. She too I hope does well in Titans 2.
Of course tomorrow we'll find out who went home from the first extermination, so.
Cael's definitely getting hungrier with winter coming. I bet he'll start getting his winter coat, soon. I'll have to bump his food rations up a little
Alright, I'm going to go listen to the post-episode dragula podcast episode and probably eat some more food. I would love to make some waffles tonight, honestly, I'll see if I have the energy for it (probably not)
Oh I forgot we're out of milk, so no waffles, which does also throw a wrench into my 'I'll make waffles to have for breakfast tomorrow because I won't be able to have milk like usual' plans
But I did have a can of biscuits waiting to get made, so made those! I attempted to fill them with red plum jam and the experiment seems mostly to have worked. I think I need to take into account the iron getting hotter as I go, because by the end the biscuits were getting darker and the jam started leaking out the sides
I listened to the podcast episode while I made them and then started a Because Language, now I think I'll watch a youtube while I eat them
Intended that to get posted at like eleven thirty and not 1 AM but elsewhere was like, nah
