2025/03/13

Today I got to test out my new analog alarm clock and it was about as shrill as I expected. It was certainly effective in getting me awake, however I quickly went back to bed and closed my eyes for a couple more minutes, which is a bit of an improvement from the usual cellphone alarm that would wake me up just enough to hit snooze then doze off again. It was snowing quite a lot this morning to the point everything was covered white. I regret not taking a photo as the snow eventually melted by noon. Midterms went as good as it could get with what little studying I did the night prior…. I can only hope it's a passing grade; stellar results are not to be expected from my negligence le sigh.
Afterwards I went to the city to finish the second half of my immunization test. I tested positive for it, though apparently it's a common occurrence for it to result as such and I was given an xray note in advance from my doctor.
After the trip we decided to take a stroll around a mall nearby the clinic that was in an area of the city we rarely visit. It was sort of.. Uncanny. I had many instances of deja vu walking around the mall and came across a large empty hallway that led to a cinema. It was completely scarce save for a potted plant and charging port. There was a lady riding a horse stuffy rider and was spinning in circles around a pillar. My sister compared it to a sight from LSD Dream Emulator.

While we were walking down the long corridor, I saw a couple wearing matching bass pro merchandise, the male seemed to be a more enthusiastic fan, sporting both a hat and tshirt while the woman had a sweater. There were 4 separate stores in the mall that carried “comic book/nerdy” paraphernalia…. except they were all poorly made bootleg merchandise and AI posters being sold for 20x the price. I even saw this bootleg miniso that had off-brand stationary and plushies that I’ve seen on temu and other alibaba resellers, though I was humored to see a knock off chiikawa coin purse that was colored tan after a fruitless search for chiikawa merchandise in the mall. It was in a kiosk that sold crochet flowers (that I truly hope were handmade by the cashier) so I was a bit intimidated to take a picture of it. There was also a hachiware coin purse that certainly looked more convincing and was a soft plush material while chii-chan was an off-coloured rubber.
I walked by an urban outfitters window display that was reminiscent of something I saw from a dream (mannequins lined up across the window, stacked in vertical rows of 3. In my dream there was a store that had a conveyor of torso mannequins spanning the ceiling.) I tend to have a lot of mall dreams for some reason so walking into an unfamiliar mall always gives me this sense of dread. I did happen to see this funny guy.

It was a pleasant day overall, it felt like a friday!
9:01 PM

  2025/03/12

Why study for midterms that are due tomorrow when I could make a dinky layout to dump my incoherent thoughts instead of subjecting the status.cafe front page to my nonsense? Absolutely genius I say and a better use of my time!! my future self will definitely forgive me ha. Ha.
Honestly this CSS is cuter than anything I could come up with for the genuine thing, it would be sad to see it go (as if i'll have the free time to make a better one soon LMAO) I'm pretty proud of how put together it is despite the time crunch I find myself in. Heck Im surprised I even remember how to code, it's been a good half month or so since I last touched a code editor, oh divs how I missed you so.
On the current dilemma, I missed midterm reviews yesterday due to scrambling around to get certifications required for practicum qualification (it was only yesterday did I discover that BLS is NOT the same as a standard CPR certification, gee would be great to know that 3 days before the submission due date) and whewww it has been a never ending struggle of reaping what I sowed, I'm quite proud of cramming a BLS course, an immunization skin test, and bloodwork in one day! My veins on the right arm were feelin a little shy and despite incessant prodding around and swirling around with the needle, no blood was drawn and my left arm proved triumphant in producing blood once again. If I had a coin for each time this happened I would have 2 coins…
If I had to summarize how my day was like, it would be this description a webmistress described in an email, “like a car accident where the car barrel rolls and somehow, perfectly lands upright and there are no casualties”. I somehow completed everything on time in a not-so-timely-manner (which is definitely not a good look for future employers.. Dont think Ill ask for a reference from my course administrator, bless her heart for wrangling me through the post-secondary process) and got everything in; I sort of feel at a loss to do after finally getting something I’ve been dreading for months to finish so quickly (ignoring the fact that I should probably, certainly, be studying for exams instead of typing this up). Today was very laid back, there was a free painting workshop that was going on in the atrium and our class was delayed till the afternoon so I had time to participate. The instructor taught us how to paint birch trees with an animal of our choice stenciled in but I chose to free-hand my animal since the stencils were a bit too big and covered half the canvas. Here's my finished piece:

The sash wrapped around the tree is a prayer ribbon that is used as an offering back to the earth. They are strung up until they eventually decay and return to the ground. I’m pretty proud of the amount of progress I got in an hour painting session, I’m quite rusty when it comes to traditional paint and definitely struggled with mixing colours with physical pigments. I got to enjoy some free snacks while we painted and we finished the day with bed making practice and module review. I got myself a pricy beyond burger at the end of the day as a treat and decided to relax a bit more after working myself in a tizzy trying to catch up with looming deadlines (still ignoring the fact that i should probably, certainly, DEFINITELY be studying for my exams tomorrow) and indulged in some coding and website lurking. I hope to work on a proper index once I finish my midterms though I’ll have to go back to the city to get a follow-up on my skin test after so it’ll have to wait until the evening. Most of all I hope to draw!!! Painting was fun and all but I want to draw something fun like idk bishies or cute things. It's been sooo long since I last touched a csp canvas!
I have a couple hours until bedtime and I've yet to review a single page of my modules, I still have so much to write but aaaaaaa ill save it for tomorrow to edit…
10:18 PM

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