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I think it might be COVID-19. :P Doing much better today than the past two days, though.
Yesterday was really annoying. My sore throat went away throughout the day, but I started having a runny nose the entire time and constantly sneezing. I went to take a nap yesterday afternoon just because the only time my nose wasn't running was when I was lying down. Between yesterday afternoon and today afternoon I probably slept for 16 or maybe 17 hours. No sore throat anymore, and my nose is not as runny as yesterday, but now I've got a headache. :P I'm going to crack open a Monster and just hope this shit is done soon.
Last week, Julie, Myrthe and I were talking about being sick and I said I have only been sick once since the pandemic and that my immune system seems to be better than before.
...Guess who got a cold last night. :P
Although, in all honesty, it's not that bad this time. Not nearly pre-pandemic bad. Mostly just a sore throat and a bit more snot than usual. It's only the first day, though, so it could still get worse. e_e I really hope not, because I'm really annoyed about missing class. Today was okay because I learn barely anything from those lectures, but tomorrow is a very information-heavy lecture, but I doubt I'll feel completely healthy again tomorrow morning. Wondering if I should just go and risk infecting others or if I should just miss the lecture. I did finish all the readings for that class for this week already, but I still don't want to miss anything...
This sux ballz. :P
...Guess who got a cold last night. :P
Although, in all honesty, it's not that bad this time. Not nearly pre-pandemic bad. Mostly just a sore throat and a bit more snot than usual. It's only the first day, though, so it could still get worse. e_e I really hope not, because I'm really annoyed about missing class. Today was okay because I learn barely anything from those lectures, but tomorrow is a very information-heavy lecture, but I doubt I'll feel completely healthy again tomorrow morning. Wondering if I should just go and risk infecting others or if I should just miss the lecture. I did finish all the readings for that class for this week already, but I still don't want to miss anything...
This sux ballz. :P
Happy October, you sons of witches.
Recently I got ID'd while buying Monster Energy? They wanted to see if I was 16 or older. I'm 23... I've not had this happen for a long time (probably because I've mostly been buying my energy at the same store for years now). And then a few days later the same thing happened to Yori, but at a different store? Yori DEFINITELY doesn't look like a minor. They are huge and have the clothing style of a gothic hipster grandma. Seriously weird, lol.
Also, Hyves is back. It's this Dutch social network that they shut down in 2013 because most people left for Facebook around 2010-2013. It used to be fucking huge, though. I used to be on it when I was a little kid, and I was insanely hyped to hear the actual owners of the site were bringing it back, but so far it's just a vibecoded mess. It is barely functional, a lot is broken, there is barely anything to do yet, and it doesn't look like the original site at all. It seems that all of the programmers just... have no idea how to program. It's laughably bad. But I have hope. The site is owned by a big Dutch newspaper, and the hype is huge, so they have the means and the reasons to actually go ahead and create something good. Just lay off the fucking clankers.
Anyway, today we drew names for Secret Santa for Sinterklaas (Dutch Christmas). Way hyped for that. I love the holidays. But first Halloween. And Winter Comic Con. Oh fuck, what am I going to wear to Winter Comic Con? :P
Oh yeah, and uni has been mostly fun so far, although yesterday my teacher (of whom I was glad that he didn't show us any more of his stupid AI chatbots of the Founding Fathers) (yes, he actually made those last Christmas instead of spending time with his family) decided to explain a "difficult reading" (it was really not that difficult) by prompting AI to create a visual of reasonings for what happened in the reading. It's wild to me, because he must've had the bullet points ready to put in the prompt, so... why not just give us the bullet points...? Glad we're wasting our drinking water and electricity on this! I kind of want to email him and tell him that what he's doing is the lamest thing ever and that it honestly feels disrespectful to the class like we're toddlers who can't just read bullet points and need pictures to stay focused, but I don't know how to go about it. God, how do you even reach old people? They're like fucking aliens sometimes.
Oh well, TGIF.
Recently I got ID'd while buying Monster Energy? They wanted to see if I was 16 or older. I'm 23... I've not had this happen for a long time (probably because I've mostly been buying my energy at the same store for years now). And then a few days later the same thing happened to Yori, but at a different store? Yori DEFINITELY doesn't look like a minor. They are huge and have the clothing style of a gothic hipster grandma. Seriously weird, lol.
Also, Hyves is back. It's this Dutch social network that they shut down in 2013 because most people left for Facebook around 2010-2013. It used to be fucking huge, though. I used to be on it when I was a little kid, and I was insanely hyped to hear the actual owners of the site were bringing it back, but so far it's just a vibecoded mess. It is barely functional, a lot is broken, there is barely anything to do yet, and it doesn't look like the original site at all. It seems that all of the programmers just... have no idea how to program. It's laughably bad. But I have hope. The site is owned by a big Dutch newspaper, and the hype is huge, so they have the means and the reasons to actually go ahead and create something good. Just lay off the fucking clankers.
Anyway, today we drew names for Secret Santa for Sinterklaas (Dutch Christmas). Way hyped for that. I love the holidays. But first Halloween. And Winter Comic Con. Oh fuck, what am I going to wear to Winter Comic Con? :P
Oh yeah, and uni has been mostly fun so far, although yesterday my teacher (of whom I was glad that he didn't show us any more of his stupid AI chatbots of the Founding Fathers) (yes, he actually made those last Christmas instead of spending time with his family) decided to explain a "difficult reading" (it was really not that difficult) by prompting AI to create a visual of reasonings for what happened in the reading. It's wild to me, because he must've had the bullet points ready to put in the prompt, so... why not just give us the bullet points...? Glad we're wasting our drinking water and electricity on this! I kind of want to email him and tell him that what he's doing is the lamest thing ever and that it honestly feels disrespectful to the class like we're toddlers who can't just read bullet points and need pictures to stay focused, but I don't know how to go about it. God, how do you even reach old people? They're like fucking aliens sometimes.
Oh well, TGIF.
Caffeine causes more dopamine to be in your brain? So THAT is why Monster Energy hits different than regular soda and makes me feel more calm and content.
Made a Plurk account that I'll probably forget about in a week. But hey, if you want to, you can add me on there. My username is WiNTERiZER.
Yes, I'm still alive. No, I'm not too pleased about it either.
I'm tired, but I don't think I can sleep with this temperature. Good thing I recently bought DOOM and DOOM II for my Nintendo Switch. Maybe I'll just lie half-naked on my bed and take out some bad guys. Sun's next.
At least the heatwave is almost over now. Just a little bit longer, and shit will go back to normal. Well, weather-wise anyway.
The only good thing about heatwaves is that everybody suffers as much as I do all summer.
My wounds are almost healed, but my relationship with my mother isn't. Good morning...
After wanting to go for ten years, I finally went to Comic Con for the first time yesterday. It was a lot of fun (aside from the AI-generated bullshit at some stalls). I'll probably post a vlog/picture dump video from it on YouTube soon. Right now I have a really bad fucking headache, though. Yuck.
At least I didn't buy that first aid kit for nothing...
My mother just said that Pulp Fiction is horrible and that Quentin Tarantino movies suck?! She's crazy.
Both my exams went well. My American history exam grade was just... decent. My American politics essay exam grade was really high, though. My South-America class grade also ended up being surprisingly high (given that I don't really care about those topics). I've passed all my classes without resits this year, so that's nice. Next year is going to suck, though. They've been moving shit around because the uni is losing money, or whatever. So they took out almost all the fun stuff and also the best teachers. Fucking fantastic. Should've killed myself in high school.
Anyway, my summer break's been quite eventful so far. I love being alone, but since my mother is almost always home I'm hardly ever actually alone, so I've been trying to get out of the house as much as possible. I've been hanging out with friends more. Not always just to chill, but also to help them with stuff. Anything to not be around my mother, I guess. She puts me so on edge.
Also a lot of birthday parties going on in summer. I have mine in August despite my birthday being in April, because then most people could show up for the party, lol. Last week was Yori's party, this week I'm celebrating my sister's birthday (followed directly by Comic Con on Sunday), and next week I'll be at Julie's birthday party.
What else do I have to say... Oh yeah! The Backrooms movie sux, LOL.
Anyway, my summer break's been quite eventful so far. I love being alone, but since my mother is almost always home I'm hardly ever actually alone, so I've been trying to get out of the house as much as possible. I've been hanging out with friends more. Not always just to chill, but also to help them with stuff. Anything to not be around my mother, I guess. She puts me so on edge.
Also a lot of birthday parties going on in summer. I have mine in August despite my birthday being in April, because then most people could show up for the party, lol. Last week was Yori's party, this week I'm celebrating my sister's birthday (followed directly by Comic Con on Sunday), and next week I'll be at Julie's birthday party.
What else do I have to say... Oh yeah! The Backrooms movie sux, LOL.
My second exam went pretty well too, I think. I only managed to really study about half of the stuff, but luckily almost all questions were about those weeks, and we could choose two questions to skip. Half of it was a long essay, and I ended up just ranting about how Abraham Lincoln shouldn't have made the Civil War about slavery. Sorry, Abe. :P My Summer break's been going on for a few days now. I've mostly just been playing videogames and drawing. Not expecting much change any time soon, especially with these temperatures. Haven't felt particularly sociable lately anyway. Everyone mostly just pisses me off.
My exam today went well, I think. It was a ~1500-word essay and I think I touched on the sources well. I've been studying a bit for Wednesday, but there is still so fucking much to go through and the exam is so quick already... Guess I won't get a great grade for that class. :/ I'm excited to have some time off, but also I know how I get when I have a lot of free time, so... :P
I'm done with my eight-page summary for my American Politics exam tomorrow. ...Now I still need to start studying for my American History exam on Wednesday... ...which has even more readings...
I've been very productive. (Because otherwise I am reminded of the things that really matter.)
Today's my last class of the academic year. Next week I have two exams, and then Summer vay cay tion.
Can't believe I'm almost at the end of my first year in uni already...
Can't believe I'm almost at the end of my first year in uni already...
