april

• cobra kai never dies
• trinity trip
  • heist movies + the george clooney nespresso commercial cinematic universe

may

• new?? mcr????
• lunar eclipse was dope as hell, rip to neil degrasse tyson but i'm different
• magical girl slenderman

june

• museum punk show, cried several times
• stonehenge livestream boring this year, no storming of the henge
• being a haunted house evangelist

july

• smoking a joint with my friend's boss in a small town rec center parking lot

august

• blueberry festival, where i failed to eat a single blueberry
• rooms/supper for my bff's birthday; finding """sangria""" on the side of the road
• catsitting
  • for once getting the stereotypical cat experience (being treated with the utmost disdain)
  • security alarm throwing a tantrum at 1am because of a low smoke detector battery
  • trying to speedrun my 101 in 1001 while i actually have a few days to myself for the first time since the pandemic started
  • binging all the scream movies and being sure i was going to get murdered on my last night of housesitting

september

• only customer in a thrift store and ended up hanging out with the only employee for nearly an hour, listening to the bbc livestream and waiting to see if the queen died
• "you can have my money, or you can have my time, but you can't have both" -- some absolute wisdom coming from my dad but the context was pay-to-win MMORPGs

october

• first real concert experience since i guess 2019? just some local bands at a big outdoor thing but it felt so good
  • tin whistle metal is the future
• who's that pokemon?
  • it's clinical depression!
• new tattoo, cool as hell
  • first time with a sanoderm bandage, can't stop poking the ink sac
• last time i went downtown the queen died, this time truss resigned. not sure why political upheaval in a different country is cosmically tied to me having a nice breakfast sandwich at a cafe before appointments and errands
• guy busking playing some trad stuff, but he clocks me as i go by and suddenly busts out 'welcome to the black parade.' i'm furious about being perceived so hard but i gotta respect and appreciate it all the same

december

• flu for 3+ weeks :/
• last minute writing a take-home final, doing three full essays on pirates of the caribbean, acing them
• the genuine warmth with which an old friend greeted me when we ran into each other at the comic book store
• "how many cups in a liter?" "what? four." "what do you mean what for. so i can make gravy"
• "in the weeb game, it's one strike, you're out"
• arrested for korning too hard