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Date: March 28th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 9:39 PM.

Weather: It was cold when I woke up this morning. We needed to turn the heat on for a little while in order to make the house liveable in any sense.

Mental and Physical Health State: The results are back; I have tested negative for Covid-19. Thank goodness! Now the priority is to do my best to keep myself from getting it. Obviously my mood has improved somewhat from this news. Generally, I'm doing fine. Today was nice.

Day Overview: And by nice I mean filled with doing absolutely nothing. I stayed up even later than last night, even though most of that time was spent confined to my bedroom, into the early hours of the morning. Fell asleep around five, woke up around eleven or so, a solid seven hour sleep cycle, and I don't have things that I specifically need to wake up for so I'm getting a decently fine amount of sleep. I haven't done anything really worth espousing on. Played some games online. Watched some YouTube content. It's interesting how even though I convinced myself I'd spend a lot of time catching up on anime, I haven't actually allowed myself to do that at all yet. Not a single episode watched. I wonder what the subconscious reason for that is. Maybe I'll watch some tonight.

On My Mind: I just did a pass through of basically the entirety of the blog pre-quarantine. Just read through everything, or at least skimmed it. Even my worries two months ago seem somewhat baseless and quaint in the face of the global catastrophe happening around me right now. A lot of people have been suffering, mental health wise, from the quarantine, and the strain of social distancing, but personally I feel pretty good. This time last month and the month before I was in the middle of depressive moods that just seemed unending, and now that I'm back home I feel like I've had a lot of time to recharge, and while things are annoying here and there, I feel overall better about myself and my ability to remain calm. Also, there were a lot of typos back then. I've also noticed that I've started to sanitize myself at least a little bit, content-wise. There isn't much to write about that needs censoring, but I feel like there's a lot of stuff that I would've maybe wanted to write about but stopped myself. Oh well. It's not like I can remember what any of that is.

• Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan: It's unusal for me to rate a singular track on the blog, but this is an exception, because it's seventeen minutes long. It's... alright. The instrumental is surprisingly dreamy, but Dylan's vocal delivery sounds just tired. The lyrics are kind of lackluster, as a whole. I've spent a good deal of time listening to the series on the JFK assassination that the Last Podcast on the Left has been putting out, and the disonnance between that portrayal events and this one has just been jarring for me. I dunno, not Dylan at his peak (that was Blonde on Blonde). 6/10.
• Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa: How is it that I've been going around for the last year or so thinking that Dua Lipa was latina, somehow? She's from England, and her parents are from Kosovo, if I remember correctly. That's pretty far removed! Big plus to the instrumental work throughout. There are a shitload of producers and writers on this thing, like on most pop records, and while that can usually lead to a weird discongruity of artistic vision and tracklisting bloat, this album is actually rather concise and sonically consistent. Some of the sequencing is weird to me (I'm fine with the last track, it's not my thing but I respect it; however, its placement after the track Good In Bed is somewhat cringeworthy, especially considering that Good In Bed is the worst song on the album by far) but that's only a minor concern. I don't find Dua Lipa's singing particularly interesting, which is a pretty big mark on this album considering that, well, she sings on it. Otherwise, it's pretty nice, though ultimately nothing super duper special. 7/10.

• Worth The Candle by Alexander Wales A.K.A. Cthulhu Rae Jepsen: Chapters 192 - 195. Remind me to devote an On My Mind section to this soon.
• Terraria developed by Re-Logic Games: Finishing up pre-hardmode stuff. Prepping for the Wall of Flesh fight.

Works Produced: A few hundred words of fiction, nothing more.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. I want to do some work on the blog typo-correction and revisiting past ideas about developing the site-wise, but I have some financial aid stuff to do for school tomorrow. Housekeeping stuff will have to wait until next weekend.