hello I had a midweek day off and came back to five million things happening and many of them bad but also news that a pseudo-promotion and (non-pseudo) raise could be mine if I want it???

Catching up on Demon Slayer so I can go see Infinity Castle and I’m so happy we get more Tenzen + wives content in the Hashira Training arc. 😭

July-September mileage reimbursement paperwork is supposed to be due mid-October. Today we got an email informing us that due to financial shenanigans on the city's part, July-August paperwork has to be turned in...tomorrow. OH OKAY. 🙃

Today in "things I would overhear someone being called in a queer/kink space, spend a few moments wondering if it's a compliment or an insult, and then decide it probably depends on context and the tone in which it's said".

So I caught a cold over the weekend and because I’m trying to get rid of it I’ve been going to sleep about 1-2 hours earlier the past few nights and even though I’m still getting over the cold I feel so much more mentally awake and alert the past few days and I’m EXTREMELY annoyed about it.

In other news, finally got my hands on 1verse’s album (delivered to work because I was taking no chances). Aito poster! Hyuk, Nathan, and Aito PCs! 💫❤️

...I'm sorry, MCR is playing San Antonio ON MY BIRTHDAY NEXT YEAR WITH THE MARS VOLTA AS AN OPENER? I'm SORRY????

I dreamed it was like 60 degrees outside and windy and rainy and I was wearing a bulky sweater and I was so happy. 😭

Mom update since it’s been a minute: this past week she started radiation treatment at Oschner (for all our waffling about that vs. Methodist when we were still in Houston, once we got home, staying home for treatment was the pretty obvious choice). Seems to be going okay so far?

Fancy tea!! With crumpets, battenburg cake, and a surprise present that made me laugh out loud.

A mixtape that’s equal parts Motown and 60s-70s very guitar-forward music by white men.

Breaking news: 3 people in their early 40s spend several hours dancing to kpop, are extremely broken the morning after.

Tonight is Kpop Club Night: (one week after my) Birthday Edition and this has been such a crazy summer for kpop that I feel like the Sabrina too many pancakes meme thinking about everything they might play tonight.

Just checked the work-only cellphone I do not check as often as I should because I hate it and there was a text from Hakeem Jeffries asking me for $3. WHO GAVE YOU THIS NUMBER. SIR THIS IS A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN'S WORK PHONE IT IS HILARIOUS YOU THINK I HAVE THREE SPARE DOLLARS LYING AROUND.

He looks like he walked out of a CLAMP manga please I can't take this.

While I'm talking about Rui, here's an eye makeup choice that could mean nothing.

Sometimes when folks for whom English is a second language wear something with English text on it I'm like "okay but do they know what that means or is it a purely aesthetic choice". This...is not one of those times.

(The half-cocked plan in question: cut it open, stick something in to make the gills poofier and possibly give the cap a firmer shape, sew it back up, maybe sew some different fabric onto it.)

I maaaaay have committed myself to the path of mushroom wizard for ren faire by buying this hat with a half-cocked plan to zhuzh it up.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ShThWe/ I like how comments on Matz edits tend to alternate between “that’s his wife they’re married and have six beautiful children” and “he wants him so bad but can’t successfully make a move due to his terminal lack of rizz”.

Not the Evangelion congratulations scene. 🤣

Birthday phase one (tacos and cake) complete! Phase 2 (open-ended hangout at favorite queer bar) tomorrow, and then phases 3 (kpop club night with SIL) and 4 (fancy afternoon tea with SIL and brother) next weekend.

And on my birthday??? Rude. (This is my car thermometer after my car has been sitting in full sun for four hours, it is not actually that hot out, but it’s still in the 90s, which: RUDE.)

Jin gets to propose first since he has oldest hyung privileges.

It’s mine and Namjoon’s birthday today! 🎉 (or, well, yesterday in Korea, today in the US). One of us is 40.

Remember how I said it would great if we found out a certain person shuffled off this mortal coil during Southern Decadence and then that didn’t happen? Well good news, universe, you have an excellent chance to make it up to me seeing as tomorrow is my birthday.

I stand by my earlier choice but also I just remembered this one.

Signed a lease and paid a security deposit, oh god it's happening (in three weeks).

The entire "smug, insufferable little clown baby" response remains the sickest burn I've ever seen on the internet.

I FEEL SUPER NORMAL ABOUT HIS KNEES IF ANYONE WAS WONDERING.

www.reddit.com/r/kpopthough... This is the worst possible thing that could have happened for my attention span today all I can think about now is reversing group names to make silly fandom names.

I’m still processing blonde Jimin and now we have blonde Yeosang help my kpop boys are DOING THINGS

Yeah so unless something goes wrong at this stage I have the apartment? Nothing better go wrong at this stage because I am already decorating it in my head?

Saw the less-ideal-location-but-cheaper-rent apartment today and I'm swooning a little. Storage space! Vintage bathtub! Pet deposit reasonable! Property management/maintenance plan that seems very functional!

“I can go in Barnes and Noble and not spend anything, I’m an adult with self control.” Barnes and Noble:

I put someone I know from the Quaker meeting I attend off-and-on in my contacts and realized I don’t know his last name so now he’s “Firstname Quakers” in my phone. 😐

Save me, J-hope coffee. J-hope coffee, save me.

youtu.be/qoxK6URD70k?... San reminding Wooyoung they have six more barbecues to eat while Woo inhales brisket.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BoQTE2/ Am I watching any football? No. Do I keep saying “I am—I am so excited FOOTBALL” every time I see an ad about it being football season? Yes.

I can buy happy meal toys individually for $2.05 at the McDonald’s 2 minutes from my apartment, this is either great or terrible news depending on my luck in avoiding duplicates. (I am testing said luck with three to start.)

Outstanding.

"A sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup" may be the most beautiful phrase I've ever read. Move over, cellar door.

Apartment got rented hours before I was supposed to go view it. 😭😭😭 BUT property manager gave me a heads-up that there's a comparable one* going on the market next week so now I have a viewing appointment for THAT. *also a 2b shotgun, location a little less ideal but also rent a little cheaper

Going to look at an apartment tomorrow that I am super excited about in terms of rent, location, space, and how it looks from the outside, everyone cross your fingers that it’s not terrible inside, has an unreasonable pet deposit, or the property manager has bad vibes.

Worked an event that went until 7 on short notice so I did not properly prepare for a late night dinner-wise. What if…I drove by my local mcd’s and see if they have the Tiny Tan happy meal?

Ready the Moon Pies.

Aaaaand emailed my landlord about moving out at the end of the month. Now I have to. yk. find a new apartment. (I have viewing requests in for a couple of good ones right now PEOPLE TEXT ME BACK).

Lasted at the parade just long enough to get handed a tiny unicorn from my favorite bartender from local queer bar and then I went “what if I was around less people right now” and now I’m having a drink and a baked potato at Port of Call. Look, we all have our preferred forms of decadence.

I don’t think I told y’all that I impulse bought a miniature kit in the airport next week because I forgot the hands-on craft I meant to pack and needed an emergency replacement? Anyway, that was a thing I did.

I forgot about Southern Decadence and then got reminded about it because the staff from my neighborhood queer bar are in the parade tomorrow and anyway now I’m thinking about how fucking wild Decadence would get if, say, news of a certain person shuffling off this mortal coil broke tomorrow.