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It's not even that though, the situation with my ex is what it is and I'm more or less at ease with it. The big cherry on top of my unfinished business sundae is the gal I fell in love with while I was still together with my ex, who I explained my feelings to back in April after something came out about her banging her roommate and I couldn't keep a brave face anymore, and who ghosted me for three weeks after I made my confession. We're talking again, more or less, and have agreed to meet up and clear the air on the 19th.I am again reminded of how I am never quite as finished with feelings as I think I am, and how it is still just as painful/uncomfortable as ever to try and do the right thing.Doing the right thing is hardly easy, but you made it out of your old place. That's a huge step forward.
Except today she had a big oral math exam, one she'd failed twice before, and she was kinda freaking out about it. So I talked with her, let her vent a bit, tried to calm her down and support her... Even though it hurts to talk with her. Then I congratulated her afterwards when she said she'd passed, even though that hurt too since the roommate was first in line to provide congratulations.
Then later on today we were both part of a welcoming party to say hi to a bartender who's been on sick leave and tending to his dying (now dead) father for the past few months. I figured "Alright, we can just keep our distance and I'll be fine. A good friend is gonna be there as well, I can just talk to her instead".
Except that the object of my desire also felt the need to have a couple side conversations within eavesdropping range about her roommate apparently wanting something more than just a fuckbuddy arrangement, and how she "Kinda wants to be in a relationship, but also kinda just wants to suck some dick". That was nice to hear. Then there was the other conversation about the roomie giving her the silent treatment "When she comes home with different people". Also lots of fun to listen to, when you've previously been getting all these little reminders that you're not quite as finished with your feelings for this girl as you'd thought and/or hoped.
Been distracted from The Third Reich and am re-reading John Dies At the End, which I have forgotten many details of but found a new copy of the other day.
Honestly I just started reading a li'l to refresh my memory as to whether it would make a good recommendation for my mother to read.
The jury's still out, but it is an amazing and horrifying book and I feel as though it is either a perfect fit for my current, messed-up state of mind or a horrible mistake to read. Who knows. I might horf into my airport coffee at this rate.
So, I started printing a nylon test article for a mold to cast legos with. (A resin pour mold). 20hrs into the print, the power browns out, and the printer drives the print head into the material, and autohomes afterward.
Several meters of material wasted, 20 hours of print time lost. Because why the hell not.
I hate this subject I'm having to revise for. It's one of those ones where rote memorisation is necessary because there's five billion fucking hormones in the body and they expect you to be able to recall every last one of them, as well as what they do and what makes them. Worst part is, that's only 1/5th of the subject, the rest of it is less annoying to learn, but still annoying. Nervous system, sensory system, respiration and reproduction. Gotta remember all the pigments involved in the eye, all the different eye forms and how they all work, the different cells in the eye, the unique cases of eye form. Respiration's easy at least. Nervous system, gotta memorise all kinds of different cells, how they interact, all sorts of neurotransmitters and how they work, which neurotransmitters are relevant to what parts of the nervous system, all that fun stuff. Reproduction just piles even more onto the hormones aspect.
It's not a subject like the others where memorisation is a smaller aspect and the rest is application of knowledge (Which means that even if you forget aspects you can easily get away with it so long as you know what you're doing), which I much much MUCH prefer. No. It's "Memorise everything, apply nothing" instead.
This OG student lad just went up to random KFCs and pretended he was corporate.
> "Hello, KFC how can I help ya."
>> *slaps table* "Hi, I'm a quality assurance manager for the region, I'm going to need to sample all the KFC."
> "What?! All the KFC?!"
>> "Yes. All the KFC."
>...."uh..okay."
>> *Proceeds to go to back room, start nibbling on as much chicken as he wants whilst complaining about the standards of hygiene.* Apparently he was well-known and after two years everyone just assumed he was from corporate.
http://dailyactive.info/2019/05/13/student-crowned-legend-after-tasting-kfc-food-for-2-years-with-fake-data/
Square Enix's micropay games aren't exactly a winner as far as I'm concerned either; most of them are largely the same as other things already on the market (albeit often with a tad more polish and flair) with more hostile micropay at higher end play.
A simple, consistent way to make dwarves less crazy? Surely you jest.
