we're flesh and bone when we're all alone

Somehow had a randomly eventful day before 10am??? Woke up bright and early after about four hours of sleep to head back into the Ticketmaster mines and snag good tickets for the London Dynamite, which went very smoothly. Then while I was debating going back to bed, I got a text from one of my managers asking if I could pop into work for a talk?? Which is obviously terrifying, but I figured if they were going to fire me, they probably would have done it on Tuesday, so I was probably okay.

So... I have a job offer! It's 8-5, Monday to Friday, which would kill the whole affair in its tracks if not for the fact that the pay is... a significant upgrade from the peanuts I've been making for ages now, to the tune of over 15k a year. The job sounds like a really good fit for me, which is why my manager thought of me first when he heard the position was opening up, and like... the money alone means I at least have to give it a shot, right??? It's been long enough since I've tried working regular hours, maybe I could pull it off this time???? I don't know. I just don't know! I'm all stressed out, but... not necessarily in a bad way? I told them I'd have an answer for them by tomorrow (the woman doing the job now is leaving next Friday, and I would have to train, so there's not a ton of wiggle room there), so I'll talk to my mom when she gets home and just order a burrito while I mainline lucha libre until then, I guess!!! Ha ha what the fuck!

26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be?

Some kind of tiger that is also a burrito, and who is the cultural ambassador to some random Japanese prefecture.

Slept a LOT after an early crash, which feels like a bit of a waste on the last day of the work week, but sure, I'll take it. Plenty of energy to power through this mountain of scanning, I guess.

Bruise on my thigh after a dog jumped at me on the way home last night. I wasn't even mad about it, because even in the moment, it was clearly a very friendly jump, but he was a very large dog and I keep poking it.

24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled?

No, but I do think it shows up way more often than people think it does, so if you just make the time for it on the regular, odds are pretty good. Not that I do that sort of thing anymore!

Poke poke poke. Everything is bad and the customers are difficult. Three hours until the managers are outta here, then just three more until I get to follow suit! FOR A WEEK.

Thank god it's Sunday, because I got NO sleep last night. Replenished my popcorn reserves, though, and Materialists was pretty good, so hopefully the night out will be enough to carry my spirits through the rest of the week on buttery wings.

Thinking about the scrapped Amblimation CATS movie in the wake of 117 pages of character sketches from it surfacing online. We could have had it all.

AEW's been on a kick of throwing amazing old pay-per-view matches up on YouTube for everybody to see of late, so if you've got an hour to kill and want to watch two very formative bouts for me personally, might I recommend Kenny Omega & Hangman Page vs. The Young Bucks from Revolution 2020, which cemented my obsession with the Elite and their ridiculously dramatic bullshit which I could scream about for days, and Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay from Forbidden Door 2023, the single best match that I've gotten to see in person so far and possibly ever. They're good graps!

22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You?

That it sucks the big one (adversity or life??).

June Movie Count: 8 (Materialists, Cinemania, Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

Settling into the 'brain-death' portion of the work week. Need to snap myself out of it. Not sure if I will. Not sure if I'll be going to the movies tomorrow, either, since I'll want to see Materialists, my mom will want to see How to Train Your Dragon But It's Brown Now, and neither of us want to see the other's choice even remotely. Hopefully I can convince her to meet me in the middle and just go see the OG HTTYD, which is also playing, and in an improbably late enough slot for me to go after work. We'll see! It's Friday the 13th, why are there no horror movies out this weekend???

( Album #488/1001: The Young Rascals - Groovin' )

And just like that, we're back to work. I actually had a very busy week off, but naturally, I have forgotten all of it. Probably because of the lack of sleep! I napped real hard yesterday so wasn't able to even settle down to pretend to sleep until about two in the morning, but I was able to drag myself out of bed a couple of hours later regardless, and that's what really matters, right?

I managed to carve out about half an hour of deck lounger time in between the alternating rain and smoke, which is... something, I guess. Truly hurts me to feel like I'm wasting the longest days of the year, but I cannot yet control nature.

Went to the movies THREE times last week, which was wonderful for my spirit. After the Monday Mystery Movie, there was a Wednesday showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of this 60th anniversary thing Landmark is doing for the rest of the year and it was amazing to see on the big screen. And then Ballerina was a lot of fun in our usual Saturday slot! A worthy addition to the 'bisexual lighting action movie' genre, a long-overdue payoff to the promise No Time to Die showed re: Ana de Armas, and I hope they make three more of them; the John Wick universe (jaywoo) and its assassin-based economy is too weird and wonderful not to keep going (I never watched The Continental because of the Mel Gibson of it all, was it any good?).

And then I found motherfucking carpet beetle worms. Four in my bathroom, one under where I keep spare blankets, a bunch under my laundry hamper in the closet. I think it's a mark of maturity that I'm not completely freaking out and burning everything when I really, really want to because oh my god I can't do this again. For now, I've just cleaned the bathroom extensively because that's the easiest room to secure and now I'll just... see if they recur and keep eliminating potential sources if so. There was a dead one in a bathroom drawer, so maybe they came from there originally (the vents, maybe??) and just spread via floordrobe (which I will obviously be cracking down on) and this will take care of the problem? Please, please, please, god.

Grabbed a couple of records in a sale and they sent me the wrong one, which is very annoying now, while I'm still waiting for the replacement of the one I most wanted (Beat the Champ, an album I loved long before I randomly became able to appreciate it on Much Deeper Levels), but will be very neat once it comes in and I will have basically gotten a free album out of the mixup. Things to look forward to! I switched this paragraph with the last one to end on a more positive note.

( Album #483/1001: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below )

June Movie Count: 6 (Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

I mostly just watched wrestling and Enterprise this week for some reason? Which was not as fulfilling as a variety of movies likely would have been, but Fyter Fest was great, and the episode where Trip gets Never Let Me Go'd did make me cry a tiny bit, which is very embarrassing. One week to freedom!

RIP Brian Wilson!