Excited

Excited for the iDOLM@STER girl with the platinum blonde hair and platinum blonde eyelashes who is a student prodigy but can't run for shit who will be revealed on March 27, 2024.

I'm convinced Sasuke Haraguchi will compose her song and I need to get out of that mindset because there's an 86% chance I will be wrong and I will be disappointed.

(It actually looks like she got Hakushi Hasegawa but that's alright because the song is really good)

Troubling situation (I won't explain it but it refers to multiple situations)

Please don't turn SA into drama.

Do not.

This is why you shouldn't watch YouTubers reporting on drama, especially if it's current.

I love firefox so much i'm so glad I switched

If only it had an automatic Japanese translator. Some sites like Sijisuru don't allow you to select text so that's why I ask.

I think it has in Spanish and a few other European languages though.

The one time

 The one time I wake up for school on time but decide not to wake up 😭😭😭😭😭 Do I not want to make a scarecrow for my argument that bad? I literally had a DREAM a minute ago about going today. That's... depressing.

Dinner

 We had dinner at a Mexican restaurant last night. And I can confirm that I have a bad habit of not eating the entire plate at a restaurant because I had salmon, Spanish rice, fries, a sopaipilla, and nothing else and I still came home with a tray. I didn't eat breakfast or lunch yesterday, though another reason I only ate half a meal yesterday had to do with my rough sleep schedule, not making anything for myself during the night, and the fact we had dinner at that place to discuss a serious topic which made me full by the time the conversation finished. I didn't eat my leftovers last night so today I woke up with an empty stomach.

Today's breakfast is french toast, lunch is leftovers, and dinner is meatloaf, I presume.

Gaza Global Strike Rules Redux

On March 9th, Israel plans to invade Rafah, so there will be a global strike from March 7th to March 9th. I'm updating my strike rules I gave to myself.

General

1. Minimize spending and banking, including cash, debit, and credit. This means don't get into any emergencies. /hj
   
2. No work or school (or any driving for that matter) unless it's for a protest or an emergency. Remember to email your professors/teachers or supervisors in advance, and don't lie about the reason.
   
3. Show activism in any way you can, including with clothing like keffiyehs or Palestinian flag shirts and verbal announcements. The May 17th strike says to wear red for Rafah, for example.
   
4. Use your social media account as a platform for Palestinian voices (and other voices facing genocide). Do not use it for anything else, including publicly liking non-Palestine tweets or mindlessly scrolling non-Palestine tweets.
   
• P.S. I don't recommend exclusively tweeting art, especially if it's only copyrighted characters being Pro-Palestine.
• It is highly suggested you retweet donation links, because you haven't been doing that at all unless it's linked to a megathread.
  
5. Strikes are not the time to leave social media unless required from the strike. See rule 4.
6. Entertainment streaming counts as spending, even if you already subscribed days ago!
7. Do not platform amoral people who are trying to strike but are failing to or are hesitant to strike. Both are examples of making it about themselves. Be a good example of a striker.
• People making the strike about themselves include people critiquing the strikes for being too unorganized because "oh how can we just pay taxes before the strike". Don't shoot the messenger.
  

 Not Just During Strikes

1. Keep boycotting! You have enough privilege to not limit yourself to BDS or the "big three" in terms of the boycott!
2. Donate to whoever you can, including the Daily Click at arab.org, any charities or organizations helping Palestine, or individuals in/with family members in Gaza.
3. This includes E-Sims to sites like Nomad, Holafly, or Simly.
4. Email and call your representatives about taking action to Gaza. Obviously, calls are more important than emails, especially during 9-5. You can do this daily.
5. The most important thing you can do is take to the street, march, chant, and anything you can do to publicly protest as a group. Our collective action is the best thing we can do.
6. Coffee Revolution. People are gonna be peeved if you don't participate.
   

Current Strikes

• The next strike called will take place from August 11th to August 18th.
• Note, if you decide not to participate in any "unorganized" or "optional" strikes, please still follow both the "General" and "Not Just During Strikes" rules every day (except for the minimize banking/go-to-work-and-school/social media talk about Palestine only rules).
• By the way, even if self-imposed, there should always be boycotts or strikes on days where "extremely major entertainment events", like the Superbowl, the Oscars, the Met Gala, etc. Awareness is crucial and all eyes on Gaza and Rafah is necessary. Israel is striking Palestine almost every day! 2 million people are at constant risk of death!
  

Previous Strikes

I'll update them if I miss any!

• August 3, 2024
  
• May 17, 2024
  
• May 10, 2024
  
• May 5 - May 11, 2024
  
• April 15, 2024
  
• April 1, 2024
• March 7 - March 9, 2024
  
• March 2, 2024 (some say it's extended until March 10, 2024)
  
• February 29, 2024
  
• February 19 - February 25, 2024
  
• February 17 - February 20, 2024
• K-Pop only: January 23 - January 28, 2024 (some extended it to the 31st, some to February 29th, some are doing it as a permanent boycott)
  
• January 21 - January 28, 2024
• December 29, 2023
  
• December 18, 2023
• December 11, 2023
• November 6, 2023
  
• October 20, 2023
  

Is It Really Cooking?

I just learned how to make chicken salad sandwiches! It didn't take as short as I'd like but I did my best!

My dad did most of the important work but I did the rest of it. He cooked chicken breast (to 165 degrees, note to self), while I shred it up into chicken slices and stirred it with mayo, salt, and pepper. I also cooked bacon (50% of the way in, at least, but the steam scared me so my dad did the rest).

Is it really cooking if I didn't do it the whole way through? I say yes. At least I had someone else cook most of it for me instead of a pre-cooked breast and bacon.