March 24, 2017

This morning I slept in and then read through a book of photography covering immigration at Ellis Island. Then I read volume one of the comic The Beauty on my computer. Still not a big fan of reading comics on the computer, but the story was interesting. The idea is that there is a new STD that makes the infected beautiful, giving them model-like bodies. And rather than trying to avoid an STD, millions of people want to become infected because the only known side effects are a mild fever and increased appetite. But then people's heads start combusting. Initially, the anti-beauty movement is blamed but it turns out this is the final side effect of the infection. A group of scientists knew this would happen and developed a cure but were fired and branded criminals because the pharmaceutical company wanted to release medicine that would prevent the combusting head thing but wouldn't cure people because they wanted them to keep buying the medicine. Something shady and I'm sure a company would never do that in real life. Now I need to continue the series so I can see what happens.

After that I ate lunch, took a shower, and then headed to my Mom's house to do laundry. While that happened I finished watching Troy and read through a book of photographs from WWII. One of the pictures shows a bunch of German school children wearing gas masks lined up in the street for a practice drill. It reminded me of the episode of Doctor Who where the kids have gas masks grafted to their faces saying “Are you my mummy?” Super creepy.

Tonight was Chipotle night. The lack of crowd was nice but the food was just so-so. After dinner we watched videos, talked, and my Mom gave us a few things she got for us on her vacation. Around 7:30PM I loaded up my laundry and headed home.

I spent the rest of my night not really doing much. I mainly just watched YouTube videos and Power Rangers. I learned that the lead actress in iZombie was actually the yellow ranger in the RPM series. The red ranger in the same series plays the druggie neighbor in Jessica Jones on Netflix. Small ranger world. The black ranger also looks familiar but I can't tell if it is just because he looks like Superman from Smallville or if it is from something else.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do at work tomorrow. I think my main goal for this weekend is to come up with the class schedule for next semester. I believe one thing that won't be appearing on the schedule, if I get final say, is the genealogy class. I got an email from the lady at the genealogical society yesterday asking about promotion, because she hadn't seen any, and wanting to know how many people were signed up. I let her know how many people had signed up and got the information about the advertising of the class from the PR lady. She emailed me back today saying how disappointed she was with the lack of promotion and blah blah blah. I forwarded that email to the PR lady and she replied to the genealogical society lady, apologizing and saying it would be better in the future. The genealogical society lady was disappointed with the attendance at the class last semester and is now disappointed again. I can understand her frustration but at the same time, asking her to do the class at the library is mutually beneficial. And she acts like we should be bending over backwards in appreciation for the favor she is doing for us. I find that annoying. And I don't like how she talked to us in the email today. So, I plan on taking a break from the genealogy class next semester, and maybe the following semester. If people are interested we can direct them to the genealogical society. A break will be good for everyone and maybe it will build more interest in the class when we do offer it again.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed.