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Things have been up and down for me. In a glum mood today. Been hanging out with someone new, and that’s been nice, I’m just not sure if I really want to keep it up. Home life is…fine, I guess. Still living with my ex, they’re gonna give things until the end of the year to see if their career picks up any, and if not, they’ll move home. That said, they’ve been talking about that for years, so I’ll believe it when I see it. They broke down and finally yelled at me for the first time a few nights ago, so I silently carved a pumpkin and then just stayed over with the person I’ve been seeing. As nice as the couch I live on is, it was nice to sleep in a bed for a night or two this past week.

Job front is slow moving, but I had a promising interview last Wednesday. Was supposed to hear back Thurday afternoon or Friday, but even with a followup email I sent, no reply. Fingers crossed I guess.

I deleted a few of my dating apps, still have a small amount installed. A Maoist actually hollered at me this morning and wants to take me to an arcade. Not sure I have the energy though. Other people are asking me for dates, but I’m just…not replying. I should go do that now so I don’t leave them hanging.

On a brighter note, 9 day tour coming up in 2 weeks, so that’s cool! Without giving away too much (y’all know my band anyways and have seen my face), I’ll be going around the midwest. We’ve been doing well on selling merch the past few months, so that money should be sufficient to cover the tour. Also, we’ll have a roadie for the first time!

I’ll end it here I guess. Hope all my comrades are well, and I love you!

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Yay for tour! Boo for living with ex’s! Yay for interviews! Boo for lack of energy to hang with people! I hope the tour is soooo good

I would totally do the dating app thing but just for friends then flake on literally every person I talked to…it sucked and I felt horrible every time but it’s so hard to person for me nowadays.

I still have covid and am even more contagious now than I was four days ago even though I’m much less sick feeling. I’m very pissed about this because I’m missing this band tonight and it’s like the first time I’ve wanted to go to a show in a while. That said I’m looking for movie recommendations while I’m caged up.

My housemate went on a camping trip and it’s so nice to not have to be stuck in my room laying in bed (literally) for 5 days straight. I can’t wait til he moves out, I cannot stand living with the majority of people now and he is no exception.

That said all this inside time from being extremely depressed and now sick is making me very excited to finally go outside and ride my bike and get back into going to shows…we will see if that happens lol

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Hope you feel better soon comrade! Hope you feel better soon!

Do you have any sorts of movies you’re looking for?

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Nothing in particular, I’m kind of all over the place with my taste. Some films I love are Rushmore, Breakfast Club, Goodfellas, Perfect Blue, Hereditary, Friday the 13th, The Fugitive…weird and corny is kinda the theme but I’ll watch most thing besides fucking Marvel movies

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If you’re interested in horror movies, I can make a ton of recs.

Beyond that…uhhh…shit, I haven’t seen much recently that is coming to mind.

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Damn, sorry about the band…

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Thank you, it’s all good. There will be other great bands! Going to shows just used to be suuuuch a huge part of my life and moving/getting older has made it harder and harder and I’m getting a lot of FOMO

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FOMO… My mortal enemy (well, everyone’s mortal enemy).

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Did well today. Got groceries. Got my pills. And a comrade was nice enough to gift me a grubhub gift card. And I hung out with Mr. Softie.

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Glad to hear it comrade! Give Mr Softie some snuggles!

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will do!

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Glad I could help.

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Hope you feel better soon comrade!

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I hope you get through it alright.

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Doing good.

As embarrassing as it is…

I tried to go to a UAW protest but couldn’t because it was too far away and no comrade can take me.

I have, err, driving anxiety.

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I have, err, driving anxiety.

Samee.

I hate cars and hate driving so much. Don’t feel bad about it, it actually is a pretty dangerous and stressful way to get around. It’s just been normalized.

No offense to comrades that like cars, just the nearly complete reliance on them in the US and Canada

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Yeah, I don’t mind cars per se, but I’d prefer a train… if I could use one to get to where I need to go…

Sigh

Anyway…

Trains > Cars

Every time.

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Comrade, right there with you. Not looking forwards to driving on tour, but I did it last year going through NYC, so I know I can.

I just hate doing it and being behind the wheel gets my heart racing.

Don’t beat yourself up over missing the protest. There will be more

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Thank you so much! I needed this.

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