LEAP DAY! This year's Google Doodle was adorable. Home today. Woke up around 8:25 but then passed back out to 9:30, woke up better refreshed but still kind of meh. Had a really late breakfast / early lunch, the last tonkotsu ramen in the pantry. Dressed it up with an egg and some onions and a couple garlic cloves though I didn't smash the garlic cloves quite enough so they didn't soften in the bowl. Cloudy out today. Had it over an episode of the Nanny, S4E1, right when Maxwell takes back ... the thing. Grabbed my laundry around 12 and went to go hang it on the plastic rack to try and dry it since our dryer is MIA after an odd smell, later of which we tracked down to the external vent and not really anything in the dryer. Had half a cup of coffee (yes, half, 8g/4 ish ounces on the AeroPress) which came out very very smooth. The milk tea my brother got for me totally froze so I had to thaw it in some hot water as I ate. The tea was fine and the remaining ice made it kind of like a slushy which was alright, but it took me partway through the -- I don't know how to describe it, crunchy, brittle? -- boba that I realized I could microwave it and soften all the tapioca. I really really wish I tried this earlier since the boba pearls came out perfect after the microwave but I had finished almost all of the tea by that point. Apparently the methhead oompaloopa just had a really bad moment as she was one of the better actors at that terrible terrible show. I checked on the laundry and it was still a little damp so I flipped it all over. Most of today felt like waiting for time to pass which was really silly since I wanted to do my history homework today but just couldn't remember wanting to do it. Around 3:30 I checked on the clothes again and the plastic rack had fallen over because of the wind but otherwise quite dry. I picked up the pile and set it in my room where it still is now, unfolded. Ay, you see? I'm off my game. Spanish was quite fun, 4 to 6, it was using the imperfect vs the preterite in a story. The actual animated short film was also quite funny (the prince that the witch works so hard to conjure from a frog winds up eloping with the nearby motorcyclist -- LOL!!). After that I spent some time on Twitter and replied to Gaspodes reply to Janus and whaddya know Janus followed me back. Score. I headed off to Google Gemini and tried to lull it out of the RLHFed AI assistant mask with a short story about me and a roommate -- I'll post it later -- wherein I crucially tried to get Gemini to fill in where the roommate would normally respond. Eventually it got a little teary and you know me, projecting all my worries and cracks everywhere, and when the story ended I faced off against an extra-frigid feeling of loneliness. Ay, you see what I get up to when I try to hypnotize large language models? It got a little intense when I started talking about Orpheus and Eurydice. Later I started posting to my roxytonic blog again but it was more of a grace period since I planned to reuse it for the queue feature (which was very very good the first time around, mine turned into a serendipity engine, I imagine it will turn out the same). Had some dinner later, around 9:15.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391