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| Week 32. |
Been sleeping like shit for most of July and now the first week of August too. Waking up late, often because I keep waking up during the middle of the night, covered in sweat and hot air, like I'm scarlet fever-ridden Victorian child or something. It's a real additive to the rest of the stress present. So Monday was like that too, I checked out some local stores trying to find a gift for Tom, super last minute and on a very low budget.
Tuesday was not dissimilar, I dropped by the post office, bought Tom a steam gift card, and worked on a sketch for the fourth page of the comic. It's the first page with panels so I wanted to try out how that would look.
Here's a shitpost for the week. Apparently there was a broadcasting error in Iceland in 2012 where the network aired the Teletubbies with the Sopranos subtitles. I've been thinking about this unholy union for a while.
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| Absolute kino. |
On Wednesday we went to work at Noel's in the morning. Mostly just a bunch of cleaning tasks, we cleaned out his van which was totally trashed since the flood. Mud-caked, splattered, totally gruesome. Wolfie hurt herself again somehow, nearly sliced her toe off on something, the dumb dog. Now she's running around in a cone.
Got home and while Mo took a nap, since we worked very early, I went to the store to pick up some more snack-based gifts for Tom. Got paid at last too! You know what that means... fiscally irresponsible decisions are back!
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| Idiot. |
Anyway, we came to Tom's in the evening and Lolu was there too which was awesome because I haven't seen her since last May. We played a round of Monopoly, at which I sucked. But also, it wasn't my fault. I kept getting bad rolls and isn't that just the core of capitalism? Tom and Lolu made a yogurt cake that we all sampled, it was surprisingly good considering Tom was a part of it's making.
On Thursday, now that I had some money, both recently received and saved, I checked on the Huion Kamvas Pro 16 V2 again. It was on an even bigger sale than before! I was gonna buy it ages ago, had the money saved and everything, but the stupid gas company didn't let us split money owed from winter time because of their own technical error of some kind so I had to cough up 300 euros on the spot. This was a terrible winter for us. Anyway, it seemed like the right time so I picked up the Huion for around 300, when it's usually like 400. I don't think there would have been a better sale and my brother told me to get it (I suspect he doesn't want to share his tablet anymore...). Nice to get paid but I still want a full-time, or consistent part-time job, I'm really tired of jumping between jobs and never knowing when I'll be called in next. The gig economy is literally evil. Uneventful Friday.
On Saturday we went to do some janitorial duties and Andrei was also installing the new window in my sister's future room. My mum has also been doing the plaster so soon enough Marta will be in her own spot on the third floor. Exciting! My room is nowhere near done but honestly I'll move in there even with the shitty windows come autumn.
In the evening we watched the new Avatar movie (Aang, not blue people). It was a disappointment... I felt like one of, if not the, most fleshed-out and moving characters in animation were watered down to gags and goofs. Sure, there were some good bits but everyone felt so uncharacteristically hollow... not to mention the tired plot. However, the art was pretty great! Except the faces, which looked terrible and so generically anime.
On Sunday I got Burnout Revenge and Alien Colonial Marines on the 360 and Tome came over. Burnout has some of the best tracks, some real emo stuff, I love it. Tom also tried out Future Soldier's wave mode with Mo and somehow I was roped into playing it with him once Mo left to call a friend. Anyway, we made it past wave 20, through teamwork, through bitter toxicity and blaming each other (mostly Tom ragging on me, because I'm a very casual gamer except Titanfall 2 and do not care about being 'good' at games), we made it eventually. It was actually a lot of fun and a reminded of what Ubisoft once was. Now they are literal trash!
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| Ash tray chic. |
We finished the evening with Drop Dead Gorgeous, which Tom hadn't seen. What an amazing movie, so satirical, so beautiful. Literally flawless acting on everyone's behalf. Especially Brittany Murphy, my beloved.
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| Week 32. |
Everything is still hot as hell, I want this heatwave nightmare to end already. Where are we gonna be next year? Or in 5 years? Or 10? Probably dead!
This Week I'm Excited For...
Allegedly the Huion will arrive next week. I'm so excited! I've never had a tablet with a screen before even though I've been doing digital art since like 2012. Wack!
Song Of The Week...
Not sure how but Elliott Smith's Coming Up Roses played somewhere this week and it made me want to go back to the self-titled album. Maybe not my fave of his albums but it's basically perfect. Few bad songs on his catalogue, if any. I actually did not realize that 'coming up roses' means something happened successfully, but it makes total sense. Nearly all proverbs and sayings that reference roses mean something exceptionally good, or contrast something good with something awful. It all hurts more: "So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows, it's coming up roses everywhere you go." My fave songs of his is also rose-focused, Rose Parade off of Either/Or.
