Hello again. It has been strange. This is the week I had a try out for a temporary job in the next town over. More on that later. It's been raining a lot, which to me, is a mood booster. I'm still thinking and thinking about movies all the time. I already decided that I would write something this Thursday but we'll see how that actually goes. Anyway, Monday was the rainiest day of all, I went to the store optimistic that it wasn't that bad but as I was going back, with a heavy ass bag, it poured like we were flooding. Our area is actually often under threat of floods so that's not good. Anyway, I bought a cute photo album to store the many photos I got from my childhood stuff box. These are actually from uni. The photo album doesn't actually have sleeves though because I'm a dumbass who forgot to check. So now I have to buy some special photo stickers to slot my pics in.
Only two photos fit per page which is tough but also is more dramatic which I kind of like. The two pics are of my best friend in high school, Yuka. We are both not avid social media users so we usually just text on WhatsApp but ever since my phone broke in December we haven't been able to chat which sucks. I need to contact her through some other way soon.
On Tuesday I was mostly just anxious about the short work trial I would be having on Wednesday. I have no chill and stress about everything before, during, and after. I did do more writing for my projects and I do need to speed up all the pre-production of my visual novel in time for Nanoreno in March.
At last, Wednesday arrived and I left to the next town at about lunch. We arrived earlier to put all the printers into Eric's car, he was the leading guy in the activities planned for the day. Yeah, I forgot to mention but the job is being an assistant to a teacher who teaches a short class about 3D printing to kids. I don't know anything about 3D printers but I have taught kids a lot, but usually English.
It was awkward as hell. There was no structure, no teaching part and trying part, it was a mess. I seriously hate working like that because it feels like there is no organization. I don't blame Eric, it's not his full-time job or anything. But I was super stressed out. The kids also did not care for what I was saying in my broken French at all. There was this one kid that was super nervous and shy, I relate. It wasn't bad overall but I just felt it was not productive. We had a bunch of printers malfunction, some models failed to print or broke, and Eric had to explain how they worked to the kids very briefly and over and over because the kids all came at different times. Well, at least now I know how to use a 3D printer. If I get paid to attend next time as an assistant, I will go. But I ain't doing this for free again. Also because I felt pretty useless. I wasn't given any tasks so I was just hovering and helping when I could which feels like not doing much...
A little mid-week break here. Key made a blog post on their site recently answering the Blog Questions Challenge 2025. You know my ass cannot resist a questionnaire so here comes my attempt at responding to these questions:
Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place?
I cant remember shit. Seriously. If I didn't keep a diary I would have very obscure and random memories, like what happened in a music video a friend showed me 10 years ago or which actor was in which long-forgotten TV show from the 90s, but no formative memories of my own. No dates, no timelines. My memory would be dumb references and memes I saw somewhere once. Terrible. A blog is the best diary... the internet is nearly forever!! And with time stamps and pictures.
What Platform Are You Using To Manage Your Blog, And Why Do You Use It?
Take a guess, buddy! That's right, blogger. I think the fact that it is borderline abandoned by Google is what drew me in, as well as nostalgia for it because I'm pretty sure we used it for some kind of school project eons ago.
Have You Blogged On Other Platforms Before?
A long time ago I sort of blogged on... Quizilla. I miss that piece of shit website so bad. I also had a blog that my uni paid me to maintain during my exchange in Finland which was funny.
How Do You Write Your Posts?
Just straight into the Blogger text editor. It has an awful spell check that doesn't understand my writing style but also at least my few readers don't have to read the words 'absolutely' and 'seriously' misspelled. I am bad at spelling, okay?!
When Do You Feel Most Inspired To Write?
When I have a bunch of pics I want to post too. It makes me feel sad when my blog is empty of pictures. Does this mean that I need to hide behind fun or pretty imagery to make up for my poor quality of blogging and uninteresting life? Who knows! Don't think about it! Good? Good.
Do You Normally Publish Immediately After Writing, Or Do You Let It Simmer?
I serve that shit as soon as it's done in the oven. Sometimes... it is not totally cooked and maybe I should have given it a second. Typos everywhere that I have to go back to shamefully and fix.
What’s Your Favorite Post On Your Website?
My most popular post is probably my Week 51 post from 2024 (wow, 58 read, I'm basically famous!). It's actually not a very happy entry so I can't say it's a favourite at all. If I had to pick, I'd probably say 'So This is The New Year' from the first week of this year. It was a good week with a fun trip and New Year presents, oh yeah!
Any Future Plans For the Website? Maybe a redesign, changing the tag system, etc.?
I'm probably going to use Zonelets at one point to "move" this blog to my main site. I think I'll always post here first to make this my sort of work book for my blogging. I changed the look of this blog recently and I'm probably going to leave it how it is for now.
Your Turn!
No one has to actually do this even if I tag them of course haha, but whoever read this blog post, I tag you. If you feel like doing these questions write me a comment so I can check out your version! Would be really cool if Krish took a jab at it but if you're not in the mood for it don't even worry about it.
Anyway, back to the week. Thursday was spent at home, mostly working on stuff on my computer. Actually most of the week was on the computer! It's because I'm working on my site a lot. Thursday was a little more for my blog, I checked out TwinkieChan's blog again to browse her outfit pics because I felt really inspired by them. She has such a fun and cute style.
On Friday I finally played some games on my super cool new PC... Mirror's Edge from 2008, not exactly a benchmark type of game but I love it. During dinner we watched Alien: Romulus and the human-xenomorph hybrid at the end was so nasty!
Saturday I finally went out. In the morning I went to the thrift store closer to me and got a cute flannel and skirt. I love flannel, plaid, gingham. Me and Tom met up at the other thrift store at 3PM and we browsed a bit, mostly laughing about how crazy some of the shoes were. I found a cute little poncho. For the longest time I thought I could resist, but yeah, I like ponchos!
After we walked around a bit and later went to his house. We hung out for a bit and then played some Resident Evil Revelations 2. Moira is a funny character. Next time we wanted to grab my brother too and play all together. We played on the Switch, and I'm not gonna lie, the controllers kind of suck. I think I might buy one in the very distant future but since Nintendo are so annoying about homebrew right now, I don't really see the point. I left about 7PM and froze my ass off on the way home even though the day was warm.
I wasted a lot of Sunday watching random videos (I only watch YouTube on weekends) and seriously regretted that. I'm feeling super low energy since maybe the middle of January. For my site, I started working on my fanlistings collective page. I totally lack all the backend skills to make the fanlistings functional so I'm just doing what can be done.
This week was kind of scattered and made me feel pretty disoriented. I hope I can feel better next week. This week I am still hooked on Elliott, particularity the song Away We Drift. Please give it a listen.