Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
The air quality today is worse compared to the last few days. It started to get into the vents in the office. It’s hazy outside and it just smells of smoke. It’s really bad. I am hoping that the office won’t smell like smoke in the morning when I get in. That would not be good. It will be difficult to work. Honestly, I don’t think we will be able to work. It’s not good for our health. We shall see.
I feel really exhausted today. My back is still hurting. At least it’s just my upper back now. Yesterday was bad, with both my upper and low back hurting. So I’ll take this. I mean I really do feel like this is a postural and ergonomic issue. I need to move my station around again to make sure that I am in the best ergonomic setup possible. At home and at work.
Watched a couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop when I got home. Hoping to watch a few more after I take a shower. But we shall see. It will depend on Chris and how she is feeling. We are both exhausted after all.
If I don’t get to watch any more episodes of that, I want to read a bit of Darling Girl. I am hoping to get more pages in on that one. I want to see how the author will spin my uncomfortableness around regarding a certain little tidbit of information that I was given in the last chapter. I guess I shall see. I don’t want this information to live rent-free in my brain. Because I just can’t.
My hun will be working some overtime for the next few – not sure how long. I’ll just say for an undisclosed amount of time. So I don’t know how hanging out will be right now. Except for Saturdays, I think the rest are up in the air. I might decide to move some of my python lectures to the afternoon. That is still debatable of course since I really don’t want to give up my afternoons. I have a life after all. So far I like doing it in the morning, well like is a strong word. Prefer maybe is the more suitable word. I mean I would like to do it late at night. Like around 9:30 pm to midnight but I don’t know if that will be smart. Since I do my leisure reading at night. I don’t know, I’m just rambling now.
Let’s just say that today was a clusterfuck at work. We were waiting for our delivery for hours! Usually the packages get delivered between 9:30 to 10:30 but of course that did not happen today. Flight delays. Heavy traffic. Delayed trucks. Yeah, late delivery. It did not get on site until almost 1 PM. Not good. Did we rush processing the samples? Not really. I just don’t like late shipments.
We cleared the cabinets at work today. Threw out all the stupid marketing materials that we have been telling the coordinator to get from the office. So much mess there. Old tech equipment were picked up for recycling. Little things. The only things left to dispose now are the nonadjustable tables and sucky office chairs.
I am currently in so much pain. Back pain is no joke.
Let me see. What happened today? Nothing really noteworthy. The headache was back onsite. And I closed my office door since I really did not want to deal with her. The less time I deal with her the better. I did have a conversation with her about that 4hr block that she scheduled for tomorrow. She titled that BS “Organizing the office”. I asked her what kind of organizing she was thinking. She just wanted some clutter cleared. Throw some marketing materials away, mark chairs to be donated, mark things that need to be disposed of. And I told her that the title of that block was ominous and I was ready to fight her if the “organizing” involves people onsite moving furniture around. And she said fight who. And I said YOU! I just want to make sure that we are on the same page. No one onsite will do freaking manual labor. Period.
I also had a 1×1 with her this afternoon. A 30-minute one that went over to about an hour and a half. Because we had so much to talk about. About my aspirations, but I always moved the focus to my team. How the team has no room to move up. We need to have levels so that they have the motivation to learn more. And so they can get paid more. I was complaining about the fact that if workers at a store or a car wash are getting paid more, then there is something wrong. My guys are handling patient samples and having to catch this and that in an order, they need to get paid better. I told her if all of us walk out of the lab right now, the lab will not run, and the pay does not reflect that. And she says I’m right. We’ll talk about this in December when new budgets are getting discussed. I told her one main reason why I am very hesitant to move on was that I don’t want the PS team to be forgotten and I want them to get what they actually deserve. Did I cry? Yes. I couldn’t help it. I want the team to get the compensation reflected on what they do in one of the most expensive cities in the US.
Anyway, after work, I got to watch a couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop with Chris. And a couple of episodes of Ouran High School Host Club and an episode of Dorohedoro with my hun. So far I am really enjoying Cowboy Bebop. My hun is willing to continue with Ouran. But I think he will enjoy it better dubbed. So we will be watching it in English, which is fine. I really think the dub on that anime was really good.
I did read some chapters of Darling Girl last night. And oh boy, there was a part there that made me so uncomfortable. Made my skin crawl. I will not disclose what since that is a bit of a spoiler but for crying out loud. That was just wtf.
Air quality today and yesterday was awful. It was so heavy with smoke that I’ve been having some difficulty breathing. Definitely not fun when I had to be outside to do errands. Regardless, I did get some things done. Regular errands you know. Adult things. I swear. I hate it. I work on weekdays then the weekend comes just for me to catch up with errands. Bleh.
Hun and I got to hangout yesterday. We watched Logan. Rewatch for him, first time watching the movie for me. I never watched the other two Wolverine movies so I have no point of comparison. But as a stand alone, I think it’l was a good movie. It was definitely slow at times, definitely intense on the action scenes, but I liked the movie nonetheless. And yes, I did cry at the ending.
We also finished given. I really have nothing to say about the anime as it is one of my favorites. Seems like my hun enjoyed it but not as much as he liked Yuri on Ice. He does appreciate the fact that this one also does not have the romance aspect as the primary story line. So I will count this a success for his yaoi journey. I do want to push his limit a little bit, I do want to see his threshold on what he can handle. The reason why I suggested Yuri on Ice and given was because the BL aspect of the anime was not prominent. We shall see though.
We did watch Dorohedoro as well. I’m enjoying the anime enough. Violent at times. But I really want to see how Caiman got his lizard head. And I want to follow his journey to discover his identity. I’m interested in Nikaido’s backstory for sure. A sorcerer living in the Hole as a non-magic person. And considering she has a very top grade smoke and not practicing sorcery, yeah, I’m interested as to why.
I’ve been listening to Ouran High School Host Club in the background since Friday. I did enjoy the anime before and I am enjoying it now. Currently watching Cowboy Bebop. Also enjoying it. I tried watching this one before but I remember dropping it. So far, now that I’m actually playing attention to it, I’m liking it.
I had a supposed tone only 1.5 hr meeting that turned to 2.5 hrs. And it was exhausting. I definitely felt drained after that. Nothing noteworthy to say. I’m dreading next week, Headache is back.
I was craving soup for dinner. So had some soup delivered. Ordered a dish called Seolleongtang, which is beef brisket, vermicelli noodles, and green onions in lightly salted bone broth. Although, they forgot to add the vermicelli noodles, the dish came with a side of rice. It was so good. And now I’m feeling the food coma. And yes, I did get credit for the vermicelli noodles.
Chris and I finished the Sasaki and Miyano. Such a slowburn romance. I loved it.
Planning on reading some Tomie again tonight. That manga is just something. I mean I stop reading because it gets intense and yet I cannot put it down. I had to read two chapters after a very disturbing one just because I did not want that disturbing chapter to be the last one in my head before I sleep. Honestly, my reactions to what was happening in each chapter were “what?”, “why??”, “how?” and most of all “eewwww”. So yeah, will read it again tonight and hope to finish it this weekend. My love thinks I have a weird taste in books. I disagee.
What happened today? I went back to work. It was fine. And Headache still ruined my day despite the fact that she’s off for the rest of the week. She is such a waste of space. I cannot stand her.
Anyway, my hun and I were able to hang out today, which was nice. We haven’t been able to. We watched a couple of episodes of given. And an episode of the Great British Baking Show. I mean, I have nothing much to say about the episodes we watched of given. I love each episode of that anime. So did I enjoy them? Yes. And I like seeing my hun’s reactions to that anime.
For the Great British Baking Show, we watched Japanese Week. And yeah, I mean I remember the show getting backlash on this episode. And I saw why. The signature challenge was to make some steamed buns, which are of Chinese origin. The technical challenge was to make matcha Mille crepe cake. This was very French to me, to be honest. But fair enough. And for the showstopper, the bakers were asked to make a “kawaii” cake. Which of course is not a thing. They basically asked the bakers to make a cake and decorate it with a cute character. I think the major backlash was the fact that they could have focused on actual Japanese bakes. I guess this missed a mark here. Putting the criticisms aside, we enjoyed the episode.
I didn’t get to read today, I was catching up with work. I was gone for two days and my emails were out of control. Ridiculous. Planning on reading a bit before going to sleep. I did read Tomie by Junji Ito. And oh boy, that manga is…something. I had to stop reading because Tomie’s face is ingrained in my brain and I don’t want her face showing up in my dreams, which can definitely happen knowing how my imagination works. Tonight I will try to read Darling Girl.
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