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Date: April 21st, 2020.

Time of Writing: 8:07 PM.

Weather: It was pretty windy today. There was a nice sunset. Storm's supposed to roll through or something like that. I have to actually look at the forecast for this section gosh.

Mental and Physical Health State: I feel alright. Just sort of alright. There's not much here besides that I feel sort of alright.

Day Overview: I woke up early as shit today after getting only four hours of sleep to give a presentation that I absolutely wanted nothing to do with. I presented third, out of four people. It went pretty okay, I got about the same reception as everyone else, but the presentation following mine was actually awful. Terrible. Borderline offensive. It's aggravating just to think about it, and I don't want to talk about it anymore, but it was incredibly insensitive. One of my classmates accidentally left her mic unmuted and started cursing the presenter out in the middle of the presentation before realizing that she did that and hurriedly muting her mic. I had to turn off my camera because my eyes were bugging out. After this nothing really happened except I managed to take a nap and then sat around managing the meager amounts of other work that I'm left with now that my big essays and stuff are done.

On My Mind: I've historically not been able to nap unless I was incredibly tired, and I hope the fact that I actually managed to fall asleep after waking up really lands. Because this barely happens. Usually I try not to nap because I always feel like crap when I wake up, and that was no different today for a little while, but after a bit I managed to get my bearings. I could fall back asleep again if I really wanted to, I think. At least I get to sleep in like normal tomorrow, that'll be really nice. Just can't sleep longer than my enrollment appointment at 5:50 PM, I have to secure my spot in several classes. I have no idea if any of these will actually take place in the fall or what form they'll take, but we'll just have to wait and see, I guess!

• Simple Dreams by Linda Rondstadt: Nice, placid country sounds. Very twangy, I appreciate the twang a lot. The quieter songs drag a bit, but when there's more of a rock and roll thing going on I found myself keenly interested. She has a nice voice in terms of singing, but when it comes to a distinct artistic influence or flourish there really isn't much here. 7/10 it was nice I guess.
• Ha! Ha! Ha! by Ultravox!: Okay, so I probably had a lot to say about this last night when I heard it, but right now nothing is specifically coming to mind. Very heady synth stuff, but with distinctly punk forward thinking. The last track is a trip. If I think of anything else to say about this I'll probably edit it in later or something, but I rated it an 8/10.
• Hope by Klaatu: The first half of this is pretty alright. It's standard Klaatu Beatles soundalike stuff, and that's fine. The second half, however, is just about incredible. It doesn't quite make up for how mediocre the first half can be, but on its own it stands as an incredibly lush, moving suite of songs that all sort of interlink in a way that feels a little over the top but incredibly charming nonetheless. Just absolutely phenomenal, that was. Overall an 8/10 as well but if you're the kind of monster that only listens to parts of albums then the second half is really great and is on the higher end of a 9/10 on its own.
• Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf: The title track on this is a total head rush song that feels about half as long as it actually is. The rest of the album falls somewhere on the spectrum between clever schlock and incredibly annoying schlock. Rock excess at its finest, and also at its worst. I'm not entirely sure what about this album made it sell so well, and maybe because of that I can officially declare myself mentally distanced from the concept of sales really meaning anything to me. 6/10 basically for the title track alone.
• Pray for Paris by Westside Gunn: Parallel-universe-core. The production on this is pretty much immaculate from start to finish. The skits are all on point. The features are generally show stoppers. But Westside himself feels kind of lackluster. The hook on Allah Sent Me ruins it. His voice is sort of aggravatingly nasally, and his ad-libs and scatting feel forced and tired. The samples of kids towards the end suck, too. I'm really conflicted with this album because on some levels it's perfect and on other levels it's sort of really bad! I feel like I can maybe make the excuse that the parts I don't like now will eventually grow on me and give it a 7/10. Yeah, that's what I'll do. 7/10 it is. The tap-dancing on the last track is nuts tho. Props.

• Kimetsu no Yaiba animated by studio Ufotable: Episode Eight.

Works Produced: Basically nothing, which sucks but I can't really do much about at this point, I have other stuff to do, for the purposes of relaxing and blowing off steam and celebrating the fact that I'm free from most of my semester's schoolwork.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog! I left this section out by accident. Indeed this post went up hours late by mistake. My bad! I'm getting sloppy with this.