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Date: May 21st, 2020.

Time of Writing: 10:53 PM.

Weather: It was so good outside today that I was told by every member of my family to go outside at least once. Nope.

Mental and Physical Health State: I was a little uptight earlier today but I've mellowed a bit as the evening has worn on. I feel calm right now.

Day Overview: Stayed up until four last night. Woke up around noon today, perfectly aware, no grogginess whatsoever. Spent the first few hours of the day playing video games, then a few more hours of the day listening to music, and I'm probably going to go and play more video games in a little while. I should probably get back into reading books, but I'm kinda stuck halfway through too many books to not feel guilty about dropping them.

On My Mind: Why did I have to choose this year, of all years, to start this blog? After years of relative calm and no real fundamental change in my life, continuous school uninterrupted by any major catastrophe for years upon years, the year I picked to write my thoughts down on the internet had to squeeze decades into weeks. If this really is the time before some permanent changes in society, then this is a record of the last days of the previous era of human civilization. If nothing changes again then I'll look really pretentious and dumb. But that's how I am most of the time, so I feel comfortable taking that risk.

Works Consumed:

• Descendants of Kain by Ka: Yes, that Ka, the Ka from the Orpheus album I listened to just a little while ago. With the same producer, too. Making heavily textual rap. Why was the previous album under a totally different name? Who knows. Who can really say? There are steps forwards and steps backwards on this one. The samples are interwoven better here, the beats are more vivid and ancient feeling. Ka has a few more flows to trot out. The lyrics are great. But it still, two years later, has the same problem of sounding monotone. There are efforts to solve this but they don't work. The feature doesn't add much. Switch ups in the middle of song can be novel but aren't, here. And I'm not trying to say this is bad, it's not, it's really great, but the flaws are so obvious and they haven't really been iterated on, or addressed, there's been no change in sound at all here. It feels like a parallel universe version of the same album I hear the other day. 8/10 to this one as well.

Works In Progress:

• Hollow Knight developed by Team Cherry: Cleared Deepnest, frustrated by the Watcher Knights.
• Cowboy Bebop animated by studio Sunrise: Episode Twenty.
• Irozuku: The World in Colors animated by P.A. Works: Episode One.

Works Produced: Nothing today at all but whatever.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog. Dad has Trevor Noah on in the other room - Las Vegas Casinos are going to reopen? What the fuck?