August 22, 2015

I got to sleep in this morning and it was nice. Even better, after I woke up I just laid in bed for awhile, enjoying the fact that I didn't have to get up. Weekends are nice.

I read a few articles and chapters today. I also responded to a few people who posted to my discussion posts. So school things happened. I could have done more but I didn't so oh well. Tomorrow I need to do some more reading, get a jump on the coming week. There is a lot of it.

In my time not reading, I started watching Attack On Titan because I have only ever heard good things about it. I have avoided it because it is subtitled and you have to be in the right mood for subtitles. I like to multitask when watching things and it is practically impossible to do that when reading subtitles. Especially in this case because they talk really fast, which means the subtitles go by quickly as well. It is a good show. It's living up to the hype. I've made it to episode nine and hopefully I can make it through the season.

I also caught up on my DVRed stuff. At least two of the shows, Killjoys and Dark Matter, had season finales so I don't need to worry about those anymore. I enjoy those shows but it will be nice not having to work them into my schedule, especially when work and school start to pick up.

I texted with my friend today, the one who recently moved with her boyfriend and got a job as an instructor at a university. She seems to be feeling kind of homesick and, at least at the moment, isn't a big fan of being an instructor. So things could be better for her. I told her we need to come up with stuff she can look forward to and reduce the stress caused by her anxiety related to her job and living in a new place. She already chats with her mom one day a week and is thinking of adding a Chipotle night like I have. Two days down, five to go. I'm going to look into some ideas, not only of fun things but also possible ways to make her job better. Hopefully we can figure it out.

Tonight I saw a opossum actually playing opossum. Alfie is an asshole, I'll start there. Birds, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons, and opossums all come into the yard. Whenever we want to let the dogs out we have to make sure the yard is cleared because Alfie likes to go after the other animals. A little while ago she got a bunny. I would say survival of the fittest in that case because the bunny was an idiot and had plenty of warning to get out of the yard. In the case with the opossum tonight, who knows what it was thinking. My mom didn't see it and it didn't get out of the yard before Alfie had a chance to catch up with it. My mom got all the dogs back inside pretty quickly and then got my attention. The opossum was laying there with its mouth and eyes open and every now and then you could see its mouth move. My mom had a flashlight and at first she though we could just use the shovel and throw it over the fence. Until we realized it was still at least kind of alive. When that was noticed we decided to just leave it in the yard and hope that it would either disappear overnight or at least die so we could throw it over the fence without it being too traumatic. And while we were discussing this the opossum slowly lived it's head and looked at us with a sort of “what the fuck?” look on its face, and then got up. It looked like it was walking with a bit of a limp and it took it awhile to find a whole in the fence but it eventually disappeared from the yard. Thank god. Now I can pretend it has gone on to live a happy life.

Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in again. And then I'm going to read things. And watch things. And at some point I'll probably eat some things also. It'll be a day.