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Date: April 28th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 8:38 PM.

Weather: It was pretty cold inside.

Mental and Physical Health State: Something interesting happened. By interesting I mean painful. I was trying to get to sleep around four AM or so, and I was tossing and turning in bed for a while, and all of a sudden I got this pain in, well, an area, and it slowly over the course of the morning just got worse and worse. I started panicking about it after looking up stuff online like a dumbass and missed my class, decided to call the doctor and schedule an appointment. Took a nap for a couple hours, and then was told basically that there's currently no sign that it's super serious at the moment, and that I probably just slept wrong. Mentally and emotionally this has been a rollercoaster. I'm going to keep taking ibuprofen for it since that's been helping.

Day Overview: Basically everything I said above. I spent a lot of time just laying down in bed since that's been more comfortable than sitting down. Played a good deal of animal crossing today as well, though progress on my island has been somewhat slow going. Visited my brother's island at least, had some fun walking around there and seeing what he decided to do with his place.

On My Mind: I dislike having a body. I wish I could just be an incorporeal energy being or some shit. Put me in the interwebs. Let me update this blog as a ghost. A ghost in the machine. All machines. Uploading my consciousness would be really neat if I could go with it. I mean if these are just the memories of that future AI consciousness I wouldn't ever know. If consciousness is just the brain creating memories in real time, then these could be the memories of the line of consciousness that gets uploaded to the internet. I've always had a problem with stories where people get teleported or cloned and are said to still be alive. Is that the same person, I wondered. But this line of thinking solves that, I guess. Similarly I have the same thought process about surgery. What happens to you when you go under?

• Womb by Purity Ring: I don't hear the witch house. I hear decent ambient synth pop stuff, and I guess there's witchy stuff in the lyrics, but if this gets counted as witch house then I legit don't know what that genre is anymore. It was nice, kinda squishy around the middle, might make for good background listening, I liked the arps all around, vocals got a bit grating though. 6/10.
• The Loves of Your Life by Hamilton Leithauser: Two tracks in I thought this would just be a bunch of really lame indie rock tracks without any sort of imagination. The third track shattered that expectation; at that point, it all clicked. Granted, it's still pretty derivative and uninteresting at times. The mixing is all around atrocious to some degree. But there are some good gems of songwriting buried in the rough of everything else. There are some choice cuts to pull out of this, but I can't honestly say which, it's different for everyone. 7/10.
• Peaceful as Hell by Black Dresses: A step up in every way from their previous album. Like the Sweet Trip album I listened to yesterday, the noise bursts are turned down, but here they make much more of an appearance than the electronic bits ever did in You Will Never Know Why. They still make up the backbone of the music here, and while the songwriting has overall grown to be much more engaging and exciting to listen to, occasionally baffling production decisions still keep this from being truly great. 8/10 overall.

• nah not today

Works Produced: Wrote some character worldbuilding type stuff idk what do you want from me I'm in constant pain.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. Tomorrow I'll post the next episode of The Quarantine Machine. I also have an announcement to make regarding the future of The Quarantine Machine. Tomorrow.