You Wouldn't Have To Ask {2025 Week #17}

Hey. My life is seemingly slowly crawling back on track. Best not get excited ahead of schedule, but I am feeling better. Monday was fine, Tuesday was an improvement. I went to the next town for my first orientation to continue my French course. It's a tiny building. I arrived very early because of inconvenient train schedules so I hung out for a while, I read a lot. It sucked because it was raining hard and all the benches were wet. I found one that wasn't and sat there for two hours till 2PM. The meeting was pretty good, funny, even. They ran out of space so we brought a table, whiteboard, and chairs to an alcove right by the bathroom. All the documents were filled in and prepared. We were told out first class would be on the next Monday due to administrative stuff. I had to wait another hour at the station for my train but I resigned myself to just going with whatever. Me and Tom called and decided to meet tomorrow to hang out. I also uploaded my Night In The Woods fanlisting to my site.

Fantastic Yums!

Wednesday the plans were ruined because my period started and I spent most of the morning immobile and wrapped in blankets. I did not do much, watched more Cobra Kai. I stopped logging it episode by episode on Dreamwidth a while ago, I was just to itchy to get to the next episode to review them. Maybe I will just do season by season for the next show. I also started moving more of my characters to toyhou.se. Also have been really intrigued by Ben Gibbard's record selection for his Discogs thing. Check it out here.

Thursday I was still not feeling it. My period is only 3 days but the first two are a real battle. I did have the power to finally organize my CD shelf and also make sure everything is logged on my Discogs. I keep track of my CDs by location too. I have so many left at my grandma's house. Then I have the ones I bought in France. And I also had those that came in from China last year and I've kept them separate, some kind of a last ditch attempt to capture the past? It's stuff I had as a kid, inherited from my parents, or stuff I picked out myself between 2012 and 2017. Stuff like Free Energy, Jake Bugg, Kent, The Kooks, Mando Diao, Phoenix, The Thermals. What I liked in high school. Re-listened to the Bad Books' self-titled in it's entirety and that one is an amazing album. It's like looking in through a keyhole at a memory. Well, they are finally in a melange with my "contemporary" purchases.

Finally organized.

On Friday we re-watched Narnia and Nanny McPhee, nostalgic and wholesome picks. I was still having art block and a general creative crisis. We had a nice time at the park though.

Sun!

On Saturday I got up early and finally managed to move to the post office to send a very important package. I dropped by the thrift store too and picked out a middle-aged man shirt and a longsleeve from Rip Curl. I am a total poser, I love surf wear but I surfed maybe 3 times in my life at most. I did some stuff on my PC and then took a shower. Tom came by to pick us up and Mo, Marta, and Yolanta went to the store while Tom and I went to his house. Our plan was to play Soul Calibur together but we ended up making our characters for literally 2 hours. I made a hot vampire lady called Alessandra. We duked it out for a while and I am a Mortal Kombat enjoyer so I'm not a total noob when to comes to fighting games but I won't lie the 3D aspect fucked me up a bit. My brother was super salty because he sucks at fighting games. 

On Sunday I started the 4th season of Cobra Kai. I have not been this excited about a show since Bucchigir?!? or Chi: Chikyuu. Otherwise a family friend was over to help fit Marta's new bed into her room because my mum bought one that was too wide and thought she could figure out a way to make it work. She couldn't and none of us are savvy enough to saw it well and not break it in the process. Luckily Andrei knows how to do literally everything so the bed fit in the end.

 

Teen bedroom.

Cats have already occupied the bed!

Alyona, his daughter, came over as well and we hung out a bit. We're of the same year (she even has a cute little necklace with 1999 on it) but we don't have many shared interests but she's still nice and we like to chat and bitch about stuff. She's having a hard time with French as well. 

My first class is tomorrow but all I can think about is this migraine that is exploding my brain. For this week, I'm taking a song from a record recommended by Ben Gibbard. Alcoholiday by Teenage Fanclub.