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🎶 Pretty little, pretty little, pretty little psycho 🎶
2018-Oct-26, Friday 11:05
There's a part of me that views "Pretty Little Psycho" as a romantic love ballad:
This post is brought to you by the database at work, which has had roughly 50% downtime this week. Obviously this is completely unacceptable, but there's nothing I can do about it except wait, so I'm doing coding practice, reading シカゴの夏は短すぎ posts, and reading the Onyx Path Publishing forums. I did even more enhancements on the database front end, re: this post, and now I'm about 80% faster than I was before I made some simple changes. Turns out those hotkeys I asked for years ago when they were soliciting feedback from us about what we needed were actually useful, huh?
Not that I'm annoyed or anything.
I don't think I've done much of anything exciting this week. Started playing Kirby's Return to Dream Land because I wanted something cute and fun. Sure, it doesn't fit the spooky theme of October, but I've already gotten two spooky games out of the way during the time when I wasn't playing Breath of the Wild. Two or three is about how much I usually get, so I think I've paid my spooky dues. I've only read one spooky book--魔犬 (maken, "Hellhound"), a manga adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound--so I'm doing better on the vidya front than the literary one. I'm reading a Vampire: the Masquerade sourcebook now, so maybe that counts?
I've been putting off doing anything about the JET Application because of anxiety and because I was still assembling the materials, but yesterday my transcript from UCC finally arrived so I don't have any more excuses. The sticking point now is recommendations. I think of two people I would trust to provide good recommendations who qualify under the terms of the application, and I need...two. So if either of them doesn't feel they can recommend me, I'm not sure what I'll do. But I need to ask because I'll have to come up with an alternate course of action if that does happen. I'm planning to email them this weekend as well as fill out all the forms--thankfully online now, rather than the all-hardcopy it was last time I applied--and then the hard part will be writing a personal statement. But I think that will be much easier than it was last time because now I can draw on my actual experience of living and teaching in Japan. Why do I want to do this, you ask? Oh well, about that. 🇯🇵
Alright, back to studying React and waiting for support to do their jobs. They don't even have an interesting 404 page! Just "404 ERROR" in the upper left on blank white. Sigh.
You're lookin' crazy, you're lookin' wrong...and I'm glad I found that out about myself, because now I can track it down and kill it.
It looks like we're gonna get along
And once I've got you, it's a fact
Baby, there's no turning back
Make me, make me impressed
Make me, make me obsessed
This post is brought to you by the database at work, which has had roughly 50% downtime this week. Obviously this is completely unacceptable, but there's nothing I can do about it except wait, so I'm doing coding practice, reading シカゴの夏は短すぎ posts, and reading the Onyx Path Publishing forums. I did even more enhancements on the database front end, re: this post, and now I'm about 80% faster than I was before I made some simple changes. Turns out those hotkeys I asked for years ago when they were soliciting feedback from us about what we needed were actually useful, huh?
Not that I'm annoyed or anything.
I don't think I've done much of anything exciting this week. Started playing Kirby's Return to Dream Land because I wanted something cute and fun. Sure, it doesn't fit the spooky theme of October, but I've already gotten two spooky games out of the way during the time when I wasn't playing Breath of the Wild. Two or three is about how much I usually get, so I think I've paid my spooky dues. I've only read one spooky book--魔犬 (maken, "Hellhound"), a manga adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound--so I'm doing better on the vidya front than the literary one. I'm reading a Vampire: the Masquerade sourcebook now, so maybe that counts?
I've been putting off doing anything about the JET Application because of anxiety and because I was still assembling the materials, but yesterday my transcript from UCC finally arrived so I don't have any more excuses. The sticking point now is recommendations. I think of two people I would trust to provide good recommendations who qualify under the terms of the application, and I need...two. So if either of them doesn't feel they can recommend me, I'm not sure what I'll do. But I need to ask because I'll have to come up with an alternate course of action if that does happen. I'm planning to email them this weekend as well as fill out all the forms--thankfully online now, rather than the all-hardcopy it was last time I applied--and then the hard part will be writing a personal statement. But I think that will be much easier than it was last time because now I can draw on my actual experience of living and teaching in Japan. Why do I want to do this, you ask? Oh well, about that. 🇯🇵
Alright, back to studying React and waiting for support to do their jobs. They don't even have an interesting 404 page! Just "404 ERROR" in the upper left on blank white. Sigh.
