Ya boy is back 

It was sort of a mini vacation. I wore smashing dresses, ate omakase sushi (my favourite was the sea urchin/tuna tartare, the monkfish liver, and the bonito), and got new earrings. 

I'm now on Ghost Story in the Dresden Files.

I've begun writing That Interquel (which will not exceed 20k words).



Tonight, I watched Lasting Impressions in Season 2 of the Orville. It's another episode where not much happens (much like the season opener Ja'loja, which I loved). I'm aware that it's real similar to several episodes of Star Trek. Still found it very touching, at least partially because I've felt similar infatuations. Not with holodeck ladies environmental simulations, but they honestly might as well have been.   

Also it had this scene: 

I was trying to figure out how old someone was based on their birth year. But whilst putting it into the calculator, I instinctively typed in 2016 as the present year. 

And, yeah, I guess that makes sense? In 2016 I'd left the undergraduate grind, I'd started on my master's thesis, I'd moved out of a series of shitboxes. I became a poptimist in 2016. The last iteration of the TTS survey was conducted in 2016. It was a transitional period. 

Still feels weird that was the first year that came to mind, though.