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After a long weekend of wrestling (a LOT of wrestling) and terrible live shows (complimentary), I am back at work and everything is a mess. It was a good weekend, though! I painted my toenails for the first time in months, so clearly I'm doing better than I have been in at least one small (very small) respect.

For our city's third-ever fringe festival, the lineup consisted of a one-man musical about a musician in hell, another one-man show about an indigenous Elon Musk, a musical slasher comedy, and a chill queer hangout with improv and music. It was all... about what you would expect. The horror comedy had a decent showing, the other three had attendances ranging from ten to twenty people. Making headway in a cultural dead zone, you love to see it!

12. Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food?

Only when I'm counting calories. Which I need to do more of, ugh.

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!)

Busy day at work yesterday, and now today is just crawling along to make up for it. The weekend was great, but as always, far too short. The Monday mystery movie was Coyote vs. Acme, which was the one movie coming out this week that I most wanted to see but also the one I was expecting it to be the least, so that was a delightful way to close the day out.

Hit a new low (high) on the scale this morning, and I really need to make this one the last new weight benchmark I let myself hit, because I really do feel like shit!

No plans for tonight after going out and/or playing games with friends for four whole days in a row. It was awesome, but now I'm just gonna watch some YouTube and do some laundry and try to reset and look forward to All In weekend! Even if I'm actually not particularly hyped for All In itself this year? With the exception of whatever insane clusterfuckery is going on around the trios title, too many things about the builds for the big matches has annoyed me, but it should still be an excellent weekend of British graps, especially if I find time to fit in the Mystery Wrestling, EVE, and RevPro shows happening over the weekend as well. Though with local fringe festival shows going on too, that might be tricky! They all honestly sound pretty bad to me, but my mom is excited, and I will always show out to support the local arts because... well, they really need the support up here, woof.

8. Is It Possible to Start Out Poor in Your Country, Work Hard and Become Well-Off?

Yeah, probably, if you're also lucky. I have moved up significantly in the world since I was a kid, right into the lower end of middle class and I don't think I work particularly hard, so. You can also just marry rich, too!

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?