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Date: February 28th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 11:49 PM.

Weather: Cold, windy.

Mood: Affable.

Day Overview: Sorry for the lateness of this post, I had a heck of a day. For starters, the radio show; it went pretty well, except for the fact that the control room smelled like something was burning for the entire time. I mean, it wasn't just my show that noticed this, the folks before me also made note that this was occurring and told me to call the engineer if anything lit on fire. Fortunately nothing did, but by the end of the night my head hurt and I just wanted to lay down and sleep for a while. Tsz, my guest, was pretty normal, she didn't really feel like the smell affected her too much, and she helped me look for the source. Unfortunately, we couldn't find it.

When I woke up in the morning the first thing I noticed was that I didn't close the shade at night. The second thing I noticed was that I had a headache. The worst headache of my life so far, in fact. It persisted even when I took pain killers and drank a lot of water. By the time I was in my advising appointment at noon, I also felt a little dizzy and slightly nauseous. I went to the health center and saw the nurse practitioner, who told me that it was only a migraine. Gave me some Ibuprofen and sent me on my way. It's better now, but it isn't really gone. Oh well. I hid out in my dorm for most of the day until the evening, when I went to see the movie Parasite with Jackie and Gianna. It was really great, and it was even better seeing it for free. We went to get some late night dinner afterwards. On the way into the dining hall, we saw two of Jackie's friends from the color guard. They'd just gotten out of Twirler Tech and still had their batons, so they demoed that for a while and showed us how to twirl, sort of. After dinner, I came back up here to my room, and that was my day.

On My Mind: I hope neither of my roommates try to kick me out tonight. I seriously cannot deal with that. It usually goes well and I have fun doing whatever else, but last time when the girl stayed the night I was kind of really upset about it. Now I have a migraine, and thus whatever fun I could potentially have is going to be mitigated by the fact that I'm trying not to accidentally make myself have more of a migraine. To be honest, I don't really want to do anything tonight. I just want to sit and, I dunno, watch trains on YouTube. That'd be nice. Just some trains.

• Color Theory by Soccer Mommy: I enjoyed the album before this a good deal more. This doesn't really fall into the landfill indie category, but if there's a case to be made that there also exists a landfill alt-country grouping then this album would be featured as Exhibit A. It's a shame that the cover of the album is attached to something so mediocre. There are a few tracks on here that I like. Circling The Drain was pretty good. But the rest was either just okay or thoroughly meh. 6/10.
• Suddenly by Caribou: I regret that, due to next week's Theme Machine theme, I basically have to play a song from this. It was so painfully uninteresting. I wish Caribou could go back to making interesting music instead of trying to do what Four Tet does but worse. I actually had to skip through the last couple tracks because I just wanted to be doing anything else than listen to this by that point. It's not dreadful, it doesn't personally hurt me, it might even be okay in small doses, but as an album it's pretty bad and I wish I had heard it on a day that I didn't already have a headache during. 4/10.
• Parasite directed by Bong Joon-ho: Holy shit what an amazing movie. Just an absolute thrill from start to finish. I'm incredibly glad I went into this movie knowing basically nothing about it. So many twists and turns that it basically gave me whiplash. The acting was pretty phenomenal, and the suspense and tension throughout the film's climactic sequence was nuts. Just absolutely fucking nuts. The parasites are the rich family and if you disagree please stop visiting my website. I don't want to say too much about the plot of the film since it's still fairly recent and I don't want to spoil anybody, and also I'm pretty sure HTML doesn't have a built-in spoiler function or anything like that. You should definitely go watch it, though. 10/10.

• If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino: Stopped on Page 25.

Works Produced: Yeah writing just wasn't going to happen today, sorry.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. February's almost over! Well, in most other years, it would be by now, but it's not. I have the theme for March made, and I'm happy to announce that it is, indeed, better than this one. Trying something a bit different. Also, you'll be able to see it on mobile, which is good! Might try to change the theme for the main index and adjoined pages too.