#me: time to prep for con! months away! plenty of time to make a bunch of stuff!

[mallaichte]

(WIP) i'll be tabling at kupocon in february! so i've decided to make a ffxiv print that will fully take me 2 months to finish. i am very smart

[canaryatlaw]

alright, it’s late, I should get writing. not too much happened today. I woke up a little before my 11:45 am alarm I think, but got up when it went off. got ready, and was off to PT. I do /really/ need to tell them the exercises they have me doing are too easy, it’s just that having them be that way is kind of nice instead of the harder ones that I have to put more effort into and feel crappy about afterwards, but I know that’s the way to actually make progress. I did have a good back pain day yesterday though, I didn’t need the heating pad for most of the day and I was mainly just sitting, so that’s good. but yeah, did that, got out of there and walked home, grabbed my laptop and started my bar prep session. Torts and Evidence. I had this thought before I started that like, I’m generally pretty good at retaining information, and I probably still have a pretty good knowledge of thee subject from first year, right? Lol, no, wrong, very wrong. We’re just doing like super basic practice questions to get used to the question style and how to approach them and like, I’m still getting a lot of them wrong lol which isn’t like, bad at this stage or anything, it just shows that clearly I do need to put a lot of effort into it, which is pretty much the plan from here on forward. So I did all of that, it was like 2 hours and 45 minutes, so not too bad. I was anxiously checking my email all day after I sent an email to the NY job last night (at like 3 am) but I didn’t get a response from them today, so I’m not sure what to make of that. I’ll wait a few more days before I do anything else, it’s just that May is almost over and every day I go without hearing something the more I feel like it’s going to be a no, and I’m going to have complex feelings about that, because I /do/ want to stay in Illinois, I want to be living the awesome life I’ve been living the last few months hanging out with Jess and going to cons all the time and just having so much fun, I do want to keep that. But I also want the job, I want the job that’s in the specific field I want to be in, that could probably launch me into a good place for my ultimate career aspiration to work on large scale reform for the system. So, I guess you could look at it like it’s a win either way, but it’s also a lose either way, because whatever I win on I will lose on the other. And that kinda sucks. I’m not sure what to make of the DV clinic yet, I’ve only had one day there and that’s really not enough to judge it, so we’ll see what happens there. Anyway. A few days ago I cashed in my lexis points (lexisnexis is an online legal database you can use to look up cases and a bunch of other things, and you can earn points you can redeem for cool stuff) that I’ve had building up over 3 years (I think it was like 6100) and I decided I was going to get a waffle maker, because I’ve been wanting a fucking waffle maker forever, dammit (we just already have so many damn appliances it’s kind of ridiculous, but it felt more justifiable if I wasn’t spending actual money on it). So I found and ordered a super hardcore one that flips and everything, and that came in the mail today. I’m like, obsessed with the belgian waffles you can get at like a diner or at breakfast buffets at hotels that are like that perfect golden brown and crispy on the outside, so I wanted to try to make ones like that for dinner. I went through my pancakes and waffles pinterest boards and compared all the recipes I had for regular belgian waffles before settling on one (a few of them called for like, 2 sticks of butter, and that seemed kind of excessive). I did halve the recipe, it was originally for 6 waffles but I’m only one person and I clearly don’t need 6 waffles. So I got the ingredients mixed up (it was a non-yeasted recipe, that’s too much fucking work and I’m way too impatient to wait all that time, and I don’t think I have yeast anyway) and tested it out. the waffle maker has like a “browness” knob and I forgot to turn it up so the first one came out kind of weak and not really crispy. I turned it way up on the second one and it came out pretty good, the browness was kind of uneven at some points, like the bottom of the little waffle pockets were almost black but the rest of it was lighter. I ended up with like, 2 and a half waffles, which was fine with me because that was plenty. Overall I think they were pretty good, there were a few moments they had kind of a weird taste that I couldn’t really place but didn’t really like, so I may try another recipe next time. We’ll see. But yeah, I sat down on the couch and I started an episode of 13 Reasons Why, though I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get all the way through it before it was time for The Flash finale. I decided to keep watching it for now because I want to know what happens and I don’t think I’m in a position where it would negatively affect my mental health, so that’s not really something I have to worry about, though I have been warned by several different people that the last episode of season 2 is very graphic, so I’m somewhat wary of what’s going to happen there. But yeah, I watched some of it then turned over to The Flash. Overall I was pretty pleased with the episode, I thought it was a solid finale for a show that had a rather mediocre season. I kind of love Marlize and I wish we got to keep her lol I think she would be awesome to have on the team. I was kinda surprised they had the showdown with Devoe so early on in the episode (it was at the like, 36 minute mark I think, which is pretty earlier for an hour long finale) but I think they made it work with the satellites falling them providing the ultimate climax. I love love love that Nora Allen was the one who helped Barry save the world from the falling satellites, that’s just all kinds of epic, but it may have something to do with the mistake she was talking about in the last scene. Joe and Cecile were precious, of course she went into labor in the season finale, why wouldn’t she, it’s the season finale dammit!! I’m happy to see that they actually did follow through with the pregnancy storyline, I feel like a lot of shows will introduce it but somehow make it unsuccessful for dramatic purposes, so I’m glad they didn’t do that. It’ll be cool to see if their kid has an powers based on the powers Cecile had while pregnant. I thought the conclusion to Harry’s plotline was actually very well done, he had learned to accept himself as he was, even if he wasn’t the man he was before that, and I feel like that’s a ton of character growth for a character who started where he did, so I liked that a lot. I knew Ralph was going to show up in the finale and be saved, of fucking course he was, though I’m not sure why he was in Devoe’s mind while the rest of the meta’s he absorbed (ew) weren’t? I guess because it was actually Ralph’s body he was in? That aspect of the plot though very much reminded me of the season 2 episode of Legends where they had to go into Rip’s mind to find the “good” part of him, and then it reminded me of a recent episode of Supergirl once they find that the good part of him has apparently been killed (like the third worldkiller had killed her good side). So a little borrowing on concepts going on, but I think it worked for them and the storyline was cohesive. I was kind of disappointed they didn’t do anything to further Caitlin’s storyline after the fairly big bombshell they dropped last episode, though I suppose there’s only so much you can fit into an episode. Hopefully that won’t be a dropped plot point and we’ll get more on it in season 5. But yeah, overall liked it a lot and looking forward to the next season. After that I went back to 13 Reasons Why, I’m not going to really talk about my thoughts about it on here out of respect for the many, many people I know who are trying to avoid the content of the show, and I would never want to be the cause of someone being triggered or hurting by what I wrote. So I basically just watched that for the rest of the night, figured I’d just get through it and be done with it. And yeah, after that I started getting ready for bed, well, after watching a little Seth Meyers waiting for my roommate to get out of the shower, but that’s about it. It’s almost 2:30 am now, and while I don’t have any fixed commitments tomorrow, I’d like to not sleep the whole day away and then scramble to get my bar prep work done, so I’m going to end this here. Goodnight babes. Stay lovely.