Guys, statistically, based on where I come from, I ain't making it far past 70. 75 or 76 if I'm lucky. If you think that's bad, dudes from my area will probably not even make it to 70. Sucks to suck, dudes!
I'm joking. Low life expectancy is sad. Anyway, this week I turned 26, which means that if I am lucky enough to make it to 75, I am currently in my 2nd third of life. It feels pretty a-okay. I'm being over-dramatic, no one knows when they will die. That would be cheating.
On Monday I finished my mermaid quiz. I let it lose on the world and some very lovely people took it and let me know what their results were, and some even put it on their sites. Krish, if you're reading, I actually had you in mind for the Moonpool mermaid! I wanted a real princess-like mermaid.
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April 1st was a Tuesday. I'm really bad at pranks so I didn't get anyone. Out of nowhere, my mum got my brother good. She was pretending that he had a bug in his hair and he was totally freaking out. I actually kind of fell for it too but when I got close to get it out I realized there was nothing there and played a long. He caught on eventually. Also, started reading Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neill. It's pretty great so far. I hate math. So it's fun to see someone who loves math and is good at it take a step back and see how it's been misused. Honestly I spend so much time on the indie web and on forums that I sometimes forget there's even mainstream social media and that it's a trap. That it doesn't have your best interests in mind.
I didn't finish my A-Z challenge post for the first day until Wednesday. It got so long. I got a lovely comment on it from a fellow A-Z participant Anne M Bray who is drawing fluevog shoes this April. Fashion girlies got to stick together. Also got some lovely comments on this blog (Hi, Alice, Ari, and Emma!).
On Thursday I ordered 3 CDs as a birthday gift for myself. It's Elliott's Song In The Air and False Cathedrals. I lie in fear at night that they may be too rare to buy one day so I needed them now. The seller also had Electric President's The Violent Blue which is a stellar album. I love Electric President, I love everything Ben Cooper does. It's awesome. In the afternoon I went to mop a house for that little extra cash, I did it much faster this time because the house is empty so no ones making a mess. It took like 4 hours last time. Trying to tutor Marta in French because she is really struggling but it's so hard to teach when I barely have a grasp on it myself.
On Friday I was in Agen all morning. I left by an early train because I needed to be at the prefecture early to get my resident permit. I waited outside for a while because I arrived super early and I read a lot of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima which is April's bookbug book. I'm thinking of joining in order to develop a better reading habit. Eventually I made it into the prefecture and was met by a guy in a very lovely and bright fuchsia polo. The mood felt celebratory. It took less than five minutes for him to scan everything and give me the permit. I love the country side for this. Sure, some thing barely function but people don't treat you like a hostile evil-doer for breathing and existing like in the city. I was so emboldened I even asked where the bathroom was. And he told me where it was. Grade A human interaction.
Before my train I walked around the center and went into Martin Delbert to browse the CDs. Lucky me, because they are having a special metal sale and I found White Pony and Adrenaline by Deftones and Follow the Leader by Korn. I also grabbed red and black Sony headphones because I needed some for my PC. And a new pen. I am a spoiled brat.
It was pretty awesome and when I got home Marta was already back from school so we watched Phantom Menace. I have the same opinion about this movie as Liam Neeson. Who cares, he got to be a Jedi. Attack of the Clones I love unironically. I feel like I'm morphing into a 12 year old boy circa 2008. All I care about it nu-metal and Star Wars.
Saturday was my last day as a 25 year old. Good times. Not really. Sort of. Mixed bag. My sister has been hounding us to go to Royal Wok again but I really didn't want to so I told her she should bring a friend instead. So my mum, Mo, Marta, and her friend Yolanta went to have lunch out of town and browse the Easycash also.
I was at home working on site stuff. Administrative duties and the like. I was supposed to send something but because I am very dumb I forgot that the post office closes in the afternoon. Alas, the country side drawback, nothing works on the weekend. We wait for Monday.
Then came my birthday. What can be said, once you're an adult and you're broke, birthdays are kind of a so-so event. Maybe I'm just naive and annoying and want things to happen but don't make them happen myself. Who can tell? If you can, don't tell me. I'm gonna stay uninformed. But yeah, 26 now. Got the loveliest messages on neocities. So many great webmasters out there took a minute to wish me a birthday so I just want to say that I appreciate all of you beyond words. Thanks.
So, since this is a special week I'm just going to pick a song that means a lot to me. One of my all time favourite musicians ever is Sufjan Stevens, I especially like his rarities and unreleased-sort-of-released tracks. Woman At The Well is in my opinion one of the best of these tracks. I don't actually understand or really relate to any of the religious references in the song but I just love it's sound. It's so sadly hopeful. Anyway, here's to one more year.