It’s Monday and I’ve been thinking. About what? Just a bunch of silly little things. So I’m going to just… yap about those for a hot minute.
First thing’s first, I spent a lot of the weekend kinda… decompressing, I guess. I did some studying and a lot of fretting about things, but mostly tried to just take a load off. Part of this was a decision I’d made to not attend something.
A while back a friend of mine got me in touch with a friend of hers that works at my county’s community college. I chatted with him a big and he gave me some really great information, which included that the school had an Open House coming up. I’d been thinking about whether or not to go, and even planned to. Earlier this month I’d started thinking I might skip it, which was paired with my considerations of just when I would actually enroll. I ultimately decided last week that I wouldn’t enroll for the upcoming Fall Semester, which back-burnered my thoughts about that Open House so hard that I just completely forgot about it until the morning of. I still had time to make it, plenty of time, and I was already ready. Given the plan, I decided against it. Now that it’s a few days later, I’m kind of wishing I had gone. Going wouldn’t have started any commitment to enroll or anything, and I would probably have had a chance to meet the friend of a friend I’d been emailing with. But I also don’t think it was a terrible decision, and there will be other chances. So I’m now resolved that the next time I get a chance, barring if it does force a commitment, I’m going to go check things out.
I’m a little bit stalled in my weight loss again. Given recent history, I’m not worried about it. But it is worth noting, especially as a reminder to myself to get back on course and stay it.
I had a potato explode in the oven today. That shit was wild! I’ve only had a potato explode once, and that was in a microwave, and I was trying to make it do so. This time, it was three of those thin, white, Japanese sweet potatoes. I usually only get those when there’s a deal, and well, there was a deal. I also don’t usually bake them whole, but I did today. My own experience with whole baked potatoes is that you usually really don’t need to prick them before cooking, and there’s a particular method for keeping medium-smallish russets from getting too dense or tough by both skipping the pricking and the foil wrapping. I wasn’t even thinking about it when I threw these in, I just kinda did, and then I heard them pop and that was very novel. They turned out fine, by the way. It wasn’t a full blow-out. A little splattering and speckling, but fine. Pretty good, actually.
I’ve been doing a little more of that writing I keep telling myself that I’ll do. I’m pretty happy with some of the fiction writing I’ve been trying out. I’m less impressed with my attempts at poetry. It was bad, like turned ranch over a wilted salad.
I restarted a video game I’d stalled out on a good long while ago. The game is named “Tunic”, and I love this game, and I got completely stuck in a section called The Cathedral. Wait, is that right? I think it’s also called The Gauntlet? It’s the big boss-rush after the huge turn in the game. Well I finally made it past that yesterday, and that fuckin’ ripped, dawg. I also found a collectable that indicated to me I could have guessed that turn before it came… but I refuse to feel stupid for that one, that’s part of this game’s charm.
Some of the other things I’ve talked about struggling with on here have started to feel like they’re coming together. I’ll likely write more about them as I go forward, but it’s just nice to not feel completely lost for a bit.
I always have way more to talk about and never make time to do so, which I guess is a complaint I can add to the list implied by the above. But I’m not going to fix that today, so that’s it for now. I’ve got another mid-week post planned, but with a few different half-written subjects, I’m undecided which to cover. I guess come back later this week to find out what I went with? Alright, I’m out. Watch ya’self.