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Date: February 20th, 2020

Time of Writing: 11:08 PM

Weather: Frigid, Windy

Mood: A little nervous.

Day Overview: Waited way too long to make this blogpost so I have to keep it short in order to preserve battery for the show. Woke up and went right to the shower because I had an earlier class. Didn't say much in it, too tired. Went back to my dorm and chilled for a bit and then I hurried on over to the next one, which was so inane and boring that I legit just listened to music for a while. I already knew the material from the reading. Film Studies was good but mostly filler and it went a bit overtime. Excited for the movie for next week, we're supposed to be watching Rear Window. I had dinner with some friends and then played pool for a while, then the conversation turned to surgery and gross needles and shit just like the worst things that had happened to each of us. I'm so squeamish about that. And right now I'm here in the campus center waiting for my guest.

On My Mind: That new Animal Crossing game looks really good. I hope I have enough money to get it when it comes out. Honestly, I'd probably pick it over the new Doom, just because it'll last me for much longer as far as replay value goes.

• Feeling Kinda Free by The Drones: 10/10. First listen blew me away. Effortless blend of the personal and the political. Bitingly satirical lyrics flow into sincere poetics and it's wholly natural. Songwriting on here is nuts, raw and intensely passionate and full of rage.
• Papers Please developed by Lucas Pope: I picked this up and started a new save file, and I got ending 16 of 20. Really solid game, I wish it was longer but I haven't dipped into the endless mode content yet. Favorite character is absolutely Jorji but Sergiu was cool too. I legitimately forgot about the bomb scenario early on in the game so it scared the shit out of me, such a well written little vignette. The complications that come in towards the end of the game had me stressed as well. I just wish there was more content, more fleshing out of the systems in the game. It's a well and accurate portrayal of totalitarianism but the world is so ripe for exploration that it's frustrating how little of it we get to see. 8 or a 9/10, I can't decide.

• I finished everything I started today.

Works Produced: A few hundred words of creative writing, nothing too major.

Other Thoughts: Tonight!! 12:00 AM to 2:00 AM!! WMUA Amherst 91.1 FM. It's The Theme Machine Episode Five: Dreams! You can listen online at WMUA.org! Thanks for reading!