Category: Life of a Space Parasite

It was tempting to stay in bed forever, but in fact I stayed in bed about the usual amount and then got up to shop and stuff. I even had enough time to catch up this journal through today. It will inevitably fall behind, but at least it’s no longer falling further behind. Yet.

Ayse granted me the boon of leftover pozole. I will eat it for lunch tomorrow.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.28: That turned out better for the others than I would have expected. But now, the end of the mage test arc, and of the season. Will we go straight into S2? Maybe, or maybe we’ll watch something. Only Future Us knows.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.12-13: Oh right, that guy is really nasty. Also between the mass murders and the escapes, the village is going to be completely depopulated by the end of the season.

Read (novel): Lillith of Endings (Dreamer’s Riot): A militant anarchist is isekai’d into the body of a small girl in a fantasy world with classism and sexism sliders set to max, and combines her advanced Earth physics knowledge with magic to become OP and start dealing with the ruling serial-killer class and their monopoly on magic. Because it is Misogyny World, she is threatened with rape at every turn, but is actually only beaten up a lot.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 163.

I did not have to get up earlier than usual this morning, but somehow it didn’t help that much.

Ash from alternate Friday gaming is in town and staying with Ayse and Ken, so I dragged Marith over to watch us eat pozole. Brooks showed up too, but Kelsey had no time and no geography. We talked about many geeky things, and a good time was had by all (except Jus who is still sick). Ash seems pretty swell, but I suppose we have to let her go back to New England eventually.

Reread (short): “A Tall Tail” (Charles Stross): This is one of the things we talked about.

Read (webnovel): Revenge of the Black Princess (DD Webb): The scorned and antisocial teenaged princess of the new empire has to solve problems and make friends with her family and save the day anyway, ugh. Possibly appealing to readers of the “Mage Errant” books.

Read (novel): Wizard with a Greatsword vol 2 (Amelia Crawford): Now the protagonist and her tentacle monster and her friends are pirates! Also there are machinations of the higher-leveled, but whatever. Not enough new worldbuilding.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 157.

Went to the office, cheered for the 17th(!) birthday of the company, ate a million pounds of catered Chef Chu’s but no cake, did several works, watched some recorded training sessions. I still don’t like videos, although they’re not as bad as live phone calls.

Read (manga): Lynx vol 1 (Samuel Sattin, tokitokoro): A widowed detective in the  obviously corrupt police force of the last remaining(?) city and her bioenhanced black cat partner try to find out what’s going on with the monsters in the back alleys while taking care of her late wife’s kid.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 110.

Despite lack of sleep, I was up in time for the early meeting, and not much more useless than normal. (That’s still pretty useless, since everyone talks more than me.)

Did some work, picked up some meds, read still too much Questionable Content but tried to go to bed so I can go to the office tomorrow.

Read (graphic novel): I Love Amy vol 1 (UNNI, AH Cho, REBECCA SZE): Psychopathic Bibi drafts shy Amy to help with her crazed plan to get cute Peter, but this involves spending a lot of deranged time together…

Read (manga): Rainbows After Storms vol 8 (Luka Kobachi): The organized ones are worrying about college, the less organized ones are feeling lonely as Christmas approaches and they don’t have anyone to smooch.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 120.

Since there was no gaming, I stayed in bed forever, and then longer, and then did some minor shopping and that’s about it. I don’t even know how to read any more.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 212, probably. I realized I could push even more of the work of counting changed words onto diff by having it emit only the changed lines and counting those instead of trying to calculate from the line numbers, so my script is much shorter and hopefully just as accurate.

 

I did not do a good job of getting out of bed, but did manage to shop and stuff in time for anime.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.27: Third phase of the test, completely anticlimactic. But now they have at least one first-class mage for the trip into the northern doomlands. One episode left in the season!

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.10-11: That poor kid, dropped into the middle of these lunatics. He’s not even crazy enough to fit like Yuru was.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 114, but I had to count it by hand, because my bugfix wasn’t actually a fix.

Did not accomplish very much in the way of work today, although there was definitely work I should have done. Ugh.

Watched (live-action TV): Spider-Noir 1.5: Finally we get some information about what happened in the war and why Reilly isn’t in that picture and what is going on with the supervillains. Also some people make extremely poor decisions. There were supposed to be further seasons, so this one can’t end in maximum tragedy, but I think some tragedy is very likely at this point.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 114.

Too hot. I do not approve.

Watched (live-action TV): Spider Noir 1.4: I guess all it takes is one dame to make the PI be a dumbass. He doesn’t deserve Janet.

Read (manga): Rainbows After Storms vol 6-7 (Luka Kobachi): School trip! First fight! Hot-springs episode! Gay panic! The other woman!

I reread way too much Questionable Content and will probably die.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 137, but also I fixed a bug in my word-counting script, so I get all the words it didn’t count before. No idea how many that is, though. We’ll say it makes up for all the deletions that I feel guilty about counting.

Despite insomnia, I was able to gather my energy or gumption or executive function and go to the office to do some work and eat Mayan pork and plantains and rice and veggies and read about Rust (I don’t understand it) and Golang (I don’t understand it). Probably I should have worked on finishing off the Kubernetes course instead.

Read (graphic novel): Clara & the Devil vol 1 (Olivie Blake, Little Chmura): It’s probably not good to be the librarian when the Devil comes in to get a library card, even in watercolor.

Read (manga): Breasts Are My Favorite Things In The World! vol 2 (Wakame Konbu): Turn-about is fair play! Also, the heart wants what it wants, but Busty Girl really needs to develop better taste in women. Maybe this other girl who she is confiding in? No, she’s a perv too.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 139.

I meant to get up and go to the office, but as any readers probably expected, I could not manage to move. In fact, I had to take half a day off because my sleep was so bad that I could not do anything at all. I blame capitalism.

Read (novel): Reborn as a Demonic Tree vol 1 (XKarnation): What it says on the tin! Carnivorous tree sleeps a lot, eats a surprising amount for a tree, grows long sinister roots, befriends local orphans, and cultivates via the system. Murders ensue. So many murders.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 150.

I went to the place to see the kittens Jus thinks I should add to my collection, then went to the other place to get supplies for the cats I do have, and then to yet a third place to get even more supplies. It was a lot of hours and travelling, for what didn’t seem like much accomplishment, but it was probably healthier than staying at home all day.

Watched (anime): Baka & Test 1.1: I saw a clip that made it look like there might be interesting gender fuckery, but it turns out I don’t care enough to watch it far enough to find out.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 156.

Only slept in a moderate amount, managed to go shopping and read Maidens of the Fall before lapsing into uselessness again.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.9: Apparently we’re done with the cute daemons for now; it’s time for mythological horrors.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.25-26: Conclusion of the second test, with cunning plans and terrifying magic. Also Denken was right, they should all have listened to him.

Read (novel): Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist (Justine Pucella Winans): A girl who has become a terrible squirrel-eating ghost accidentally possesses the boy her crush is dating, and everything goes downhill from there. Way, way downhill. With murders.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 246.

Also, some money, or at least canned food.

Watched (live-action TV): Spider Noir 1.3: Well, that was a whirlwind of betrayal and murder! And we still have five episodes to go!

Read (manga): Common-Sense Monster vol 3 (Warugi Wanai, Shinobu Shinotsuki): More murders, including of major characters. The end!

Read (manga): Breasts Are My Favorite Things In The World! vol 1 (Wakame Konbu): Apparently I already read this, but it was five years ago so it’s not that surprising I don’t remember. Contains no socially redeeming value whatsoever.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 275.

Did not visit any skyscrapers today. Did get my apartment cleaned.

Watched (live-action TV): Spider Noir 1.2: I realize it was a different, more freewheeling time, but that’s never been superhero best practices, my dude.

Read (manga): Tearmoon Empire vol 3 (Mizu Morino, Nozomu Mochitsuki, Gilse): Timeloop heroine continues failing her way into undeserved success, and new friends, despite some events from the original continuity trying to happen. I liked the first volume, but I’m not sure this is keeping my interest.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 135.

Lucky Fourteen assures me orange cats are the best.

Thought about going to the office, but I’m doing handover this week, so nah.

Read (graphic novel): Wrong Friend (Charise Mericle Harper, Rory Lucey): A sixth-grader is friend-dumped by her slightly older and now infinitely cooler best friend, and tries to figure out how to get a new best friend, what the ideal qualities of a best friend are, etc, in a slightly stream-of-consciousness way.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 147.

We think it’s best to address the entire whale shark, not just the individual symptoms.

Played (Hero 6E): Kaiju Academy. Once again, a labyrinth hijacks the cohort ,and this time spits them out in the Hollow Earth, where they quickly befriend the Dinosaur Kingdom, who are already predisposed to like mammals due to the Fuzzy immigration. However, most of the Fuzzies have fallen into the hands of the Primate Kingdom, who are horrible and have a giant ape-monster and practice sophont sacrifice, so there is going to have to be Action Taken.

Teo is back from university for a while, so will be joining the game once he decides what kind of character he wants.

Read (manga): Tearmoon Empire vol 2 (Mizu Morino, Nozomu Mochitsuki, Gilse): Time-looped heroine trying to save herself from the guillotine that her past self probably deserved, fails into success and making a good impression at noble school despite being only vaguely well-intentioned and not very clever at all. Fortunately her maid is on the same page.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 126. I should be adding, not editing, but that paragraph was not okay.

I was on call today, but the customers did not call. Good customers. I only slept in a little, and did the usual shopping.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.24: Fern is convinced she could kill Frieren. Is she right?

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.7-8: Big fight is over, time for the recrimination phase! Also cleanup, because these are not the superpowers that avoid collateral damage.

Read (novel): Cattywumpus (Ash Van Otterloo): In a small North Carolina town where witchcraft is frowned upon, two girls who are hereditary rivals are having trouble with their magic for completely different reasons, which means when they interact, they can cause enormous problems, but can’t cooperate enough to fix them.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 130.

Played (Lancer): Session 0 for Ash’s Lancer game that she will run for the next few months while Ken is too busy being a member of society. We picked the Sad Space Mooks defending a station in the middle of nowhere’s middle of nowhere. It will be doomed and great. I think my character is cursed to pilot this Lich.

Read (novel): The Astral Library (Kate Quinn): An extremely down-on-her-luck booklover is shooped into the Astral Library where she can pick out a book to live in for as long as she wants, but then everything goes wrong and she has to save the day. Which she does, despite not really knowing what’s going on! Yay books, yay libraries!

Read (light novel): The Goddess Beat the Final Boss in the Tutorial so Now I’m Free to Do Whatever vol 2 (Onikage Supana, Ixy): The main character continues to disrupt the world with her OP magic and need to feed the supreme goddess’s fetishes. She does unmercifully bully and forcefem an undeserving elf boy, but does save the city (kinda) and not destroy it, so uh?

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 125. Do I need to stop writing this scene?

Stayed home, did some work, had a meeting with a customer.

Watched (live-action TV): Spider Noir 1: Okay, this is hard-boiled! It’s got a PI, it’s got goons, it’s got corruption, it’s got bootleggers, it’s got superpowers, what more can you ask for? Dames, I guess, since the protagonist, major antagonist, and most secondary characters are men. The secretary and the moll are good, though. Better than these dumbass men.

Read (novel): Daggerbound (T Kingfisher): We know from Swordheart that there were at least three swords with people stuck in them, and here’s another one getting pulled out by someone unexpectedly suitable for a romantic plot. In fact it’s a character from the Clocktaur books, but everything you need to know about him is explained. Also gnoles, cultists, giant bugs, the temple of the White Rat, and assorted trauma flashbacks.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 284.

Tried to go to the office but was too lethargic. I hope someone enjoyed my Popeye’s fried chicken parts.

Read (novel): Roll for Initiative (Jaime Formato): A sixth-grader is at a loss when her older brother, who has been extensively parenting her while their single mom works and works, goes off to college, but in fact she is perfect capable of riding the bus and making friends and running D&D (5E, but still!). In fact, she is better at living her life, and especially at running D&D, than her bother was, which does not make him happen when he comes back.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 161.

Went to the office, attended some meetings, ate some Mexican food, did some work.

Can I do it again, though?

Read (manga): Dandadan vol 20 (Yukinobu Tatsu): Momo being two inches tall does not exempt her from going to school, which is unexpectedly full of weirdos and monsters.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 111. This main character may count as a thrift store cutie.

I did not eat any angels, but I did do the usual weekend sleeping and shopping. I did not manage to do any reading.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.6: Big daemon fight with the sister-stealers!

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.22-23: Downtime between the test rounds (Stark knows what he did wrong), and then on to the second round.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 120.