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The Hunger Games (2012)
So, how do you rate 2024 so far?
Awesome!
Good
It's fine, everything is fine
Honestly, I've had better starts to a year
Bring back 2023!!!
I want to completely skip 2024!!!
We hates it!!!!! (said in Golem's voice from Lord of the Rings)
More nuanced than these/ other
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There is some overlap with the options, just pick the one you vibe with the most.
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They just took Chloe back to check her temperature. If her temp has come back down to normal they will do the bloodwork today so that she doesn’t have to come back for her scheduled appointment on Tuesday. I made sure to tell the tech about the reverse sneezing episodes before they took her back. Chloe was great in the car today on the way here. She only meowed a few times, didn’t cry the entire way here. Sadly, she’s gotten used to these trips to the vet. I’m sitting here super anxious waiting. I don’t know why I’m so worked up. I just want my little girl to be ok. I’ll update later when I get home.
Monday's temperature check (7-24)
I believe it was Albert Einstein who came up with the equation, “Comedy equals tragedy plus time”. For example, jokes about the Titanic are funny. To prove my point, why did Leonardo DiCaprio stop seeing the movie Titanic? Because it turned twenty-five. However, jokes about using a homemade submarine to take yourself and three friends to the resting spot of the Titanic is still a little raw. I’m feeling it’s time to start writing temp checks again. Over the weekend I saw Oppenheimer. It still might be a little early to joke about the movie. I won’t spoil the ending, but my favorite scene was when Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg were in a car racing toward Los Alamos in the New Mexico desert. A highway patrolman pulled them over for speeding.
The officer asked Heisenberg, “Do you know how fast you were going?” “No,” replied Heisenberg, “But we know exactly where we are.” The officer looked confused and says, “You were going 120 miles per hour!” Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, “Great! Now we’re lost!”
“Well,” the officer says to Schrödinger. “Do you have anything in the trunk?”
“Yes, we have a cat.”
The officer opens the trunk and yells, “This cat is dead!”
Schrödinger angrily replies, “Well it is now!”
Bohr chimed in, “On the bright side, a moment ago we didn’t have a position, speed or a cat. Now we have all three!”
The group never made it to Los Alamos.
By the way, I also saw Barbie The Movie. I would describe my favorite scene from that movie, but I think I’ve written “Kenough”.
So, while I double check my quantum mechanics equations, I’ll be online and teleworking.
Stay safe!
Tom
Feeling feverish lately
TEMPERATURE CHECK no.71
15/01/2023 2:50PM / Breakdowns happen so we move on. Divine intervention, they say. And the intervention is, if you care to notice, always to look within. I've been terribly close for so long, I've lost sight of my own eyes. Exhausted. It is only a necessary breakdown of my ways: all my silly, slimy, obsessive ways that worked for a little while, but no longer. I must regain myself at all cost, for where I'm living now is far too in-between and one doesn't like to replicate without reason. How do I rekindle the fire? The fire that has always been a part of my soul. Where to? How long? Oh, the glow. Where have you gone, my little one? I am here. I am loved and standing in my power without fear.
Hmmm. I am in a very Helpful mood right now, and it's currently AAPI heritage month, so I decided that, as one of your local AAPI writeblrs, I might do a temperature check for possibly some (loose) guides to writing Chinese American/East Asian American characters and/or mixed-race/specifically mixed E. Asian characters.
Is either of these ideas something that people might find helpful? I'm leaning toward the second one because it's closer to my personal experience, but I can also speak to the first one.
