✧ PREVIOUSLY:

• "it's time to do some adventuring on your own. after the end of another school year, you do some relaxing but also some working. you feel conflicted with your social life, but that's nothing new. you now just work, game, and move on with life"

✧ SET THE SUMMER OFF:

• 07/01/2023 ➣ the hell was that dream, you felt so betrayed and backstabbed when all your friends laughed and bullied you just because there was a new smart kid that was actually funny, is this how he feels when he envies me. you got real lucky with octopath, and everyone's stories seem to be getting better as you reach chapter 4 with everyone. your friend starting playing bungo mayoi. you saw a picture of them, it's felt so long since you seen their face. you hope the best for them. you really wanted to listen to some set it off songs.
• 07/02/2023 ➣ you started the final chapters for tressa, alfyn, hannit, and cyrus. church was a pain in the ass and those kids butchered your name when they tried to get you to go to fsy. you got some work done for world history.
• 07/03/2023 ➣ you finished the final chapters for olberic, ophillia, primrose, and therion. the credits were touching since it told the story on the path you particularly chose. you started helping out with cooking. it appears that there is some serious postgame content.
• 07/04/2023 ➣ you took down some bosses and grinded but still need more work for the final boss in octopath, after that, you will feel complete. imagine dragons is exmormon, who wouldve thought. you also got some other artists you need to start listening to. "i've been making my gethsemane. since i was young, my ancestry (cutthroat) was marching martyrdom across the radadadadumbla plains of utah (cutthroat). i can't lie, i've been played. by powerful people who get their way. but i, in time, will climb my mountain. i, in time, will rise".
• 07/05/2023 ➣ your shoes squeak too much. it seems like another friend from high school is working with you. you seem to have a little internship friend group. you watch jjk season 2,'s first episode and already feel like reading the manga.
• 07/06/2023 ➣ this new threads app is only annoying because now you actually have followers on twitter and can see someone's very dumbass comments. you are questioned for your walking routine. you find out one of the interns is your friends nephew and they are older than your friend, despite her being a graduated senior. jjk season 2 is really getting you hyped as you keep on replaying the op, but you know the look gojo has on the beginning of his face too well.
• 07/07/2023 ➣ you struggle through a bunch of ig notifications to check for your first ever paycheck. you talk about your music tastes with someone for once. you read a ton of stormbringer.
• 07/08/2023 ➣ the jjk season 2 op and ed resonate with you more than you think. you watched all of record of ragnorok season 1 and you realize that you have only watched top notch anime, so you forget that anime can be a hit or miss.
• 07/09/2023 ➣ you finished reading stormbringer, glad you know yourself better chuuya. you looked at your ap scores, not bad.
• 07/10/2023 ➣ your barber had the nerve of not even being at his house for the place, this is getting annoying. looks like you gotta make a presentation for your internship. you watched records of ragnorok season 2, and it was actually worth something. some of the cooler characters like jack and ripper and buddha were cool and season 2 comes out on july 12th.
• 07/11/2023 ➣ looks like you had work the entire day. walking out with your intern trio is pretty cool. ace of hearts will always kill it. you realize that monophobia ii from ace of hearts kinda reminds you of your engineering friend group, that's pretty nice. you found a spiderverse sunflower anime remix that is pretty nice.
• 07/12/2023 ➣ you help your friend out with her bracelet business. man, just listening to mona lisa by dominic flare in the middle of the night is just a vibe, probably for all spiderverse songs. you do a practice run of presentations with your internship squad. you saw the new op and episode for bungo stray dogs season 5 and it was crazy. you might get some service hours in the future. you got octopath traveler 2, but won't play it until you beat the final boss of the first game. you finished record of ragnarok part ii.
• 07/13/2023 ➣ you present you presentations and do an interview on the spot and it went great. you gain a bond with your intern trio group and get some contacts. you got a game plan, you do not care how long it takes, you are killing galdera, tonight.
• 07/14/2023 ➣ you beat galdera in octopath traveler. time to experience a new journey in octopath traveler ii. oh how jjk season 2 reminds you of the old days.
• 07/15/2023 ➣ you play a ton of fortnite with a nine year old while your old middle school friends spam invites and calls for you to join. you had reschedule your dmv appointment. you enjoy playing fortnite and play until you hit level 50.
• 07/16/2023 ➣ you started playing octopath ii. you go to a birthday event for your friend and not only find a new machine for the meta, but get a donkey kong plush and a squirtle plush. you sped run some of the final assignments you needed to complete.
• 07/17/2023 ➣ you spend a lot of time today playing octopath ii. you get a nice haircut, but it's only good because your barber that messed up four times in a row started complimenting your speech all the way back in may with the seattle national competition.
• 07/18/2023 ➣ finally, tetsu no ori is on your spotify daily drive. you made a lot of mistakes at work today, you forgot your watch, you swallowed a mint, messed up your progress on a spreadsheet, and dealt with an iguana in the work room. after listening to a friend and thinking and brainstorming, you start making plans for your clubs at school. octopath ii is so fun.
• 07/19/2023 ➣ you text your friend about her having options. you get a call from the magnet coordinator about making a powerpoint. you work hours and hours on the spreadsheet. the episode of bungo stray dogs was so so so so so so so good with akutagawa finally being back. "the wind sways the flowers that bloomed in our town. they called out my name, that is my sign. the wind sways the flowers that bloomed in our town. they called out my name, that is my sign." that's kiseki, also known as miracle, the beautiful fifth bungo stray dogs ed. so it appears you found a faker that you but an athlete and tall.
• 07/20/2023 ➣ you are mad tired, but the tiredness was very intentional. you have a chill lunch with your intern group and jet's pizza, even went a few minutes extra cause why not. you get invited to a last second meeting about using your phone camera, whatever. you give a firm handshake to your intern partner, because even though this will not be the last time you see him, you know that this was his last work day with you. you appreciate the time you both spent. you are so tired, you need to finish that birthday presentation.
• 07/21/2023 ➣ you wake up for a midnight sandwich since you were so tired. you somehow was able to play enough bungo tales and genshin impact while also being able to finish the birthday presentation. this was the worst work day ever, doesn't mean it was completely bad. still, you were stressing with several projects, having to deal with the birthday presentation, so many flys and mosquitoes both inside and outside the building, but the worst part, both of your main friends are not with you. however, you will soon be on your way to orlando.
• 07/22/2023 ➣ you searched through a tub of your baby cousins toys only to find some hidden treasures like a controller, some nintendo switch cases, and funko pops.
• 07/23/2023 ➣ you watched oppenheimer, with an unexpected sex scene and a good message to say that the world is no longer safe with the work that oppenheimer has created.
• 07/24/2023 ➣ you spent the night watching rwby volume 9. you panicked over the dba you had to do, but you believe this to be the hardest part of the course out of the way. you finished ochette's final story in octopath ii, it's time to finish the rest of the main story.
• 07/25/2023 ➣ happy birthday, mom. after two years, you finally got the standard kunikida ssr on your main account. you go back to your internship as a volunteer, you won't get paid, but the service hours will be just as nice. things are really dire, your grandmother is incredibly sick because of an abundance of white blood cells and could potentially die. you can't say that you did not predict something like this though.
• 07/26/2023 ➣ you finished agnea's story in octopath ii. a few hours later, you decided to finish partito's, castti's and temenos' stories in octopath ii. you got a text from your cousin about your grandmother's passing. hm. she passed. you did not cry, not yet. but so many people kept coming to the house, so many texts, and your voice was too loud whenever you were expected to talk. the ch 88 moment in bungo stray dogs finally happened in the anime, on the same day your grandmother passes. the texts you get from friends just feel weird, they don't know how you feel. you finished the stories of osvald and hikari for octopath ii.

✧ MOURNFUL DAYS AND HOURS

• 07/27/2023 ➣ you finished throne's story in octopath but fell asleep. still, it looks like that you did not reach the credits yet. waking up without your grandmother is rough but you still need to go to the internship to help out with the graduation. you had a great day with your old internship buddy and took some nice pictures and talked about the old days of the mcu. the car ride home was rough though. that jjk episode was hype.
• 07/28/2023 ➣ you had to stand outside for 20 minutes getting bit and bit from mosquitoes. today was incredibly boring and depressing. "throughout heaven and Earth, i alone am the honored one" you started grinding for the final parts of octopath ii.
• 07/29/2023 ➣ you did some service to help out kids going back to school. you laugh with your mother about nshss being a scam. you got a preisthood blessing and saw some cousins again, sucks how every phone call and every visit has a depressing reason behind it.
• 07/30/2023 ➣ another day, another sad feeling. you completed the "journey for the dawn" quest in octopath ii and reached the credits, what a fabulous game!
• 07/31/2023 ➣ this was one of the most unproductive days ever. 15 hours spent on the secret boss in octopath ii.

✧ MONTH CLOSURE:

• it made no sense for things to feel that good. there was not a lot of work. you were making money and doing service. playing enjoyable games. but one of the greatest people in your life passed away. life does not feel worth living anymore.