1. Several days before the publishing of this post, I stated confidently that "Hit 'em High (The Monstars' Anthem)" would be the song. As a show of proof that I always uphold my promises, here you go.
2. Anyways it's been the worst week for me than it has been in years from a purely physical standpoint because I got a train ran on me by a cold and an errant calf strain sustained by.... walking. Please just stretch
3. After a few days I could begin to walk on it fine, its just a matter of not doing too much in the recovery process, which is hard when everything's a hill but I guess at least I'm not running every other day. I'll be supplementing cardio with very boring exercise bike sessions which honest to god suck but I mean running is what got me here in the first place
4. The first few days I was legitimately in a full on limp. It got to a point where I thought it was a direct achilles injury and granted, I was kind of happy. Some time ago I stated that my body was a "Voodoo doll for Aubrey's", Aubrey being of course Aubrey "Drake" Graham, so any sort of bodily harm I sustained would be inflicted on him by proxy. Unfortunately after a physical exam it was concluded to be a mild high calf strain. I promise you though, that won't be the end.
5. I've always had a problem with gaining weight so I've decided to just have a Taco Bell groyper feast every now and then.
6. A recent viewing of The Truman Show (1998) has made me (re-)realize that the new generation of influencer baby has had their life ruined from the start.
7. I think our lives are now all permanently affected by the fact that cameras are affixed to pretty much every part of the developed world. If you aren't being surveilled by AI, security cameras, AI-powered security cameras, or malicious third party actors, you are then at the mercy of your fellow man to not remove the wet floor sign in front of you.*
* Those unfamiliar with Blueface's discography should know that this statement is in reference to the line "Mop the floor hide the wet sign just to catch him slippin".
8. If you've ever had the displeasure of having to read a teenage wokescold's opinion on the internet they love to bring up Japan's issues with involuntary photography (specifically in a sexual context). All cameras having a mandatory flash sound is a bad thing apparently, although it is the most clear and effective measure one could directly take against this rare bread of 痴漢. Have you considered that, have they not have considered making such a change, the issue would surely be more prevalent, especially in one of the densest metro areas in the world like Tokyo? Have you then considered that, in a low-trust society such as the United States, that would not be to some benefit as well?
9. I'm sure the above has been restated above over and over again under the context that maybe rationalizing it could provide actual justification on the existence of such things but once again the truth of the matter is that the crux of some people's entire lives is to argue without due cause. Some people just get off on the attention and the idea that they're making people mad and don't understand the consequences until after the fact. Again, they are literally getting off on the attention.
10. The nature of such things has made a lot of popular mostly progressive-leaning social/political activism feel extremely disingenuous no matter how justified it may ultimately be in concept. The median voter's opinion is formed around who is the most annoying (and vocal) party at the time, and acting in spite against them. All of this is getting rejected at the ballot box. Keep it up and you might actually let the National Suicide Party kill us all for real but in like a really gay way that nobody likes
11. My heart has always been somewhere else. I seriously don't know where it is but I know I will find it at some location in the world.
12. Bernard Sumner on the chorus of "Regret" singing "I was upset you see, almost all the time / You used to be a stranger but now you are mine" kinda gets me good for some reason. What the fuck's up with that song anyway? Why is it so good?
13. A lot of my music taste feels like it's composed of pre-national suicide UK acts, which is odd because if you were to go on my last.fm you would see next to nothing. That's because 1) I have to listen to a whole track for it to scrobble don't ask me how that works and 2) I don't have a lot of stuff downloaded and I'm too lazy to download more most of the time.
14. I've been meaning to listen to a lot more Japanese music outside of the Hirasawa extended universe but just about everything else that I fancy will surely give me the aura of a sexual predator.
15. I'm afraid of others perception of me and the things I like because I don't want them to know that I listen to Reggaeton without knowing nearly enough Spanish to understand what I'm saying. I did hear "mami vamos a hacer el sexo" one time and that was pretty awesome though. I know what that means.
16. I've never really liked Halloween at all because I'm an antisocial freak who wants everyone to be miserable maybe
17. That's to say I just don't like how commercialized all of it is. Everything. Like literally everything every holiday
18. Argument for more national holidays in the United States: If 9/11 were a national holiday then there's no way they could commercialize 9/11 outside of selling Dipset records and slaughtering more brown people on your dime
19. I've taken it as objective fact that the air dates of Christmas ads are logarithmically being pushed back year over year
20. "It's the most wonderful time of the year" and it's October and the sun's still out and its still as miserable. Piss off mate
21. The family of deer I kept seeing late at night seem to be gone. I hope mama and her babies are okay.
22. Have we ever asked why golden retrievers really are so happy all the time? They're like some of the joyous critters I've ever seen first hand, never one not smiling in my vicinity. Plus they love getting rubbed on the stomach and playing fetch and all of that. I think this is a state we all deserve to be in.
23. I haven't seriously drawn in such a long time, but the last time I picked up the pen after a long hiatus, things just seemed to click that didn't prior. I wonder if I could replicate the same effect over and over again. Few days on, few days off. The brain really does acquire things in the weirdest of ways, so much to a point where you begin to falter in your process the moment you try to consciously describe it. Ultimately it's a motor action, just as is tying a knot, and those are pretty much the nature of those.
24. I concluded my first "official" exam week this academic year and I think I did fine enough. If this computer shit doesn't go as planned there's no doubt in my mind that I could make Noam Chomsky look like a chimpanzee.
25. I've gotten back into the swing of Japanese immersion too, with CLANNAD (Anime). Anime is actually kinda easy to follow in a general sense, and most of the speech I don't get initially is a result of a jumble of grammatical structures whose meaning is extremely determinant on context. Japanese syntax feels free flowing, and the biggest consequence of such is that you're like super confused when youre learning. Fuuko is so cute and retarded.
26. I have confidence that I, yes I, AIR, will end up finding a relevant internship this summer. Unfortunately, that is a reminder that I will eventually have to get a job. But, just as I am able to actualize that I'm not being compensated for my work, but rather my posts, they will be just as strong, if not stronger.
27. The worst part about minor injury (especially in the legs) is the fact that it never recovers as it should. You got to move. That's like the whole point of living. If you're only slightly ailed you can't just not
28. I had some knee inflammation that lasted for a month due to functionally the same reason. I couldn't just stop moving. This is probably why athletes end up dying and shitting themselves on the field honestly.
29. A rewatch of "The Matrix" (1999) is certainly in the cards for me, simply because it had been a bit and I wanted to see if it was as good as I remember (it is). A certain special someone hasn't seen it though, likely because they're really big and fat, so they will accompany alongside me.
30. It was one of those things that ended up keeping me on the path of computers/engineering, on top of other things like how esoteric I felt getting OpenBSD running on a decade-old hardware and how weird and autistic Richard Stallman was while simultaneously being correct about several facets of digital existence
31. Website recommendation: stallman.org
32. Some time ago on the blog I mentioned my tendency to pick up sticks and do Ichiro's batting ritual. What they don't want you to know is that I've also begun to include Gary Sheffield's batting stance in there as well. If you don't know that's where he violently swings the stick up and down up and down to his shoulder.
33. Dwight Gooden's his uncle which I think says a lot
34. Sporting events I would probably die of shock from if I was magically transported back in time with no knowledge of them happening: Dwight Gooden debuting with the greatest modern pitching season of all time and then the Mets win the World Series the next year but all of the sudden they fall apart and Gooden starts smoking crack and almost shoots himself in the head (tangentally related)
35. There's been intrusive thoughts telling me to switch off of GNOME but I'm not really sure if I should (between the extreme volatility of the "removing half of your system" process in Debian and not really knowing what else there is).
36. The worst weather is any sunny weather without cloud coverage. It's miserable if you're doing anything else other than sitting on your ass under shade and don't let people convince you otherwise. I'm getting the full mediterranean climate experience out here.
37. *unprompted* It won't be long until they take me