oh, medusa

This is the most Friday-coded Thursday in a while, goddamn. I keep thinking about what I'll be doing on the weekend only to remember there's a whole other day of this shit to go before that. So many sold units, only one tech, and they are all somehow meant to be A1 priorities, fuck offfffff and let me go home and watch wrestling for three straight days.

Going to see The Dog Stars after work, at least. It is, by all accounts, aggressively mid, but that's okay. It's the only new thing we're getting this weekend (after I sat through that Finding Emily trailer about 800 times), and a night out is a couple of hours in the dark with popcorn closer to the weekend, so I'll take it!

Went home to watch MLP on my lunch break, during which time I had to turn away a package delivery because I left my wallet in my purse at work, and I'm SO mildly annoyed by it. The ONE time the delivery person actually knocked and waited and was ready to go instead of just silently sticking up the 'missed you' note and running away and I was HOME and I STILL have to go to Shoppers after work to pick it up anyway, what the fuck. Literally the first time I have ever regretted not using any sort of digital wallet for my cards. I will go and get it before the movie and put my new shirt on in the car out of spite!!!

10. Has Anyone Ever Said That You Look Like Someone Famous? Do You Resemble Your Parents?

No. Yes.

(I actually saw a picture of my father for the first time a couple of years ago and it was extremely surreal to see all the parts of myself that I didn't get directly from my mother on another person. Crazy stuff!)

Finally, a nice summer day! Likely one of the last in this, the shittiest summer on record since that time it snowed a foot in June, so I shan't waste it, I'm gonna hit the deck with a book and Hangman's new playlist the INSTANT I get home from work. Since Dynamite is pre-taped tonight, I should get an extra hour out there before I duck back inside and order myself some Indian food. Hooray!

Work remains dizzyingly busy, and one of my techs quit last week and has not been replaced, so I don't really know what I'm going to do with all these sold units. Dolly Parton and Tim Curry back-to-back is brutal. I should probably get back to the grind now!

9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off?

PEROGIES.

FUCK, SO BUSY. Work is a lot, but also so is home, between visiting my grandmother (who has been put back on all of the long-term drugs that they took her off of when they figured she'd be dead in a couple of days) and going to see a lot of movies (I may be eating too much popcorn) and trying to fit in as much wrestling as I can while still missing so much and also just trying to be a person with chores and shit to do.

Your Name on the big screen last night was great, but not as great as Oiwa vs. Uemura in the G1 finals, holy HELL those boys took me on a beautiful pro wrestling journey, and it's about goddamn time NJPW invests in their next generation like that. Also Gabe and Drilla's backstage faceoff was some of the gayest shit I've seen in a minute, good for them. Dan had better beat Gabe's ass and get his fucking flowers for betting on himself and being the only War Dog not to jump ship to AEW. DON'T YOU WASTE HIS UNBEARABLY HOT ASS, GEDO, I STG I'LL CUT YOU.

Caught up on MLP during my lunch break, was very excited to see Josh Alexander back and hopeful that the fact that those episodes were taped back in June means that his leg will be good enough to turn up for the casino gauntlet at All In. Insidious 6 tonight. Will I ever find time to watch last night's Dynamite? I guess we'll see!

Okay, back to being annoyed by all of my coworkers for a little while longer!!

6. How Well Do You Take Criticism?

Not happily, but I think I internalize it well enough?

Holy HELL, I am tired. Took a two hour night nap last night, which was great, but then I was too awake to go to bed until after a nice long midnight bath, which was also extremely great, but while I was mad relaxed for a change, they probably cancel each other in terms of getting actual rest.

The situation with my grandmother remains ever evolving, as she's now back to chatty stuck-in-the-past mode and slowly drinking/eating more again. Maybe she'll be coming off of palliative care after all? Seems pretty dangerous to get any hopes up, but idk, maybe my subconscious had good reason for doubting this latest round of 'she's dying imminently, actually' from the doctors. If nothing else, it's been a good excuse to declutter her room?

Things I've enjoyed lately: The End of Oak Street was quite fun, after I was pretty unenthused by the trailers. Seeing La La Land on a big screen was beautiful. Also beautiful: Hangman hitting that stunning dropsault on Saturday that I'm pretty sure he hasn't busted out since he was in his 20s. Watched the first season of Nirvanna the Band the Show since it hit Disney+ in the wake of the movie and absolutely adored it, enough so that I want to save season 2 for a rainy day. The latest season of King of the Hill was also really solid; the next is going to be weird now that even more cast members have died, though.

4. How Good a Friend Are You?

Pleading the fifth!! Is that still a thing?

Today's lunchtime joshi match is Sayaka Kurara vs. Rina from the second day of last year's 5*STAR Grand Prix, because after I spent her entire red belt reign going "...her? Really?", I really am trying to better appreciate what Kurara's bringing to the table other than the ghost of a great wrestler that I also didn't really enjoy that much tbh. Anyway, this was fine, but their Cinderella Tournament match earlier this year was a lot better.



RIP Hayden Panettiere, the millennial starlets are Not Okay. God, I was obsessed with Heroes back in the day.

My email inbox is sitting at over 400 things to deal with, and today is the last day of one of my techs, but ELP will be on ROH when I go home, and that's what it's all about, right?

Maybe I should get another one of the brightly-coloured McDonald's Red Bull mix drinks.

TGIF. My grandmother's condition is now such that my mom is getting us to pre-emptively start cleaning out her room because it could be a matter of days. She was sleeping pretty peacefully when we visited yesterday, though? I am very tired, both physically and emotionally, while also feeling like I'm not being performatively sad enough for my mom's sake? She's constantly on the verge of tears, but I'm mostly just numb and I think she feels like I don't care that the woman who largely raised me as a kid is dying, but I don't really know what to do about that!

Drinking way too much Red Bull at work today, looking forward to staying up super late tonight and then sleeping in tomorrow, really luxuriating in the crash. Also to checking out the wXw PPV and going to see a showing of La La Land on Sunday. Little things!

Also? I think it's time to finally start looking into getting a passport again.

3. What’s Your Comfort Food?

Whatever's in front of me. It's kind of a problem!!

No lunchtime joshi match, because the streets are saying that yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the AEW Rampage premiere, which means five years since Kenny and Christian's iconic opener, so I will give the Canadian boys a bit of love today instead. Regular programming to resume on Monday.