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Date: March 29th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 8:57 PM.

Weather: It was pouring outside earlier. I need to spend more time looking out the window. It's hard because the tape is still up from the winter. It's not quite warm enough to take the tape off yet, but soon it will be. In about a month's time.

Mental and Physical Health State: I'm basically back to full strength, physically. No traces of any cold, apart from a bit of a sore throat but that's it. Moodwise, I feel like apart from my sleep schedule slipping into oblivion I'm feeling fine.

Day Overview: I stayed up late again last night, this time talking to my brother. I think I probably fell asleep mid-sentence. I have a habit of doing that. It wasn't quite as late as the night before, but it was still late in every sense of the word. When I woke up around noon, I didn't spend my time doing anything truly important. All of that will be basically reflected in the consumption section. I'm supposed to play more Stardew Valley tonight, but I don't know if that's actually going to happen. This friend group, specifically, is really fucking terrible at sticking to plans. No offense to any one member in particular, it's all of our collective faults for not holding each other accountable.

On My Mind: Now that I know for a fact that I'm not sick, I feel the need to be even more protective of my health so that I don't get sick again. The honeymoon period of being stuck indoors is starting to wear off a bit, I suppose. Maybe tomorrow I'll spend some time reading on the porch. At the very least, I'd like to, but it's supposed to continue raining and not be very warm. Let's see... looking at the weather forecast... it's not supposed to go back above fifty degrees until Thursday? And the rain is supposed to continue through the week? Gosh darn it. It doesn't seem like I'm going to get much time outside after all. Woe is me.

• Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee: Decently airy, nice alt-country indie folk pop stuff. It's not revelatory to me. If there's a type of quarantine this matches, it's probably the kind that people out in rural areas are feeling, where they have a yard to walk around in. They're drifting, too, but on an island instead of in a box. It's pleasant and there are occasionally songs like Fire that are legit nice, but overall it kind of all blends together in a haze. Maybe I've been overloading myself on music lately. I need to break it up with more works in other mediums. I had a pretty 7/10 experience in general with this one.
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! animated by Science Saru: As far as depictions of the creative process can go, this is one of the most romanticized love letters to imagination that exists. The main cast has incredible chemistry, the world they live in is rich and interesting to see, the score is fantastic, and when this show was at its peak I found myself enjoying it like no other anime in a long while. But there are several things holding it back for me. For one thing, outside of the titular Eizouken's animations, and Asakusa's imagination sequences, the animation can be somewhat choppy and limited. The voice actresses for Asakusa and Mizusaki were both strangely expressive, in two opposite ways. Asakusa had a decent range of emotion, but never got above a certain volume, if that makes sense? Even though she got loud when she was excited, of course, like the visionary sort of savant character does, it felt one note. Mizusaki had the opposite problem. She was jarringly loud almost all of the time. Another thing holding me back from giving this a higher score is that the score just gets repeated a lot. I enjoyed it a lot, but there were moments where it felt a bit lacking. There was something missing here. I don't know what. Pacing was also a bit strange. I hope it gets a second season and more resources devoted to it. 8/10 as it stands.

• Terraria developed by Re-Logic Games: The more I read about Hardmode, the less I want to progress in this game. Right now I'm expanding my base.
• Kaguya Sama: Love is War animated by A-1 Pictures: Episodes 9 and 10.
• The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace: Pages 28 thru 57

Works Produced: Nothing today. I should get to working on some projects, both for school and for my personal enjoyment.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. Today was rather uneventful. I picked a strange time to do this, because with blogs like this that update daily without fail, usually you want interesting content, but in a pandemic less news is good news.