2026-06-08

• Work this week was slightly easier, thankfully. I feel like ending the weekend at the small pool is a better way to close out the workweek than the chaos and long commute of the big pool. I still had a rough day on Friday when I learned that one of our workers was getting fired for something she had no control over, a thing that I’ve struggled with all my life even if it’s milder now, and it sent me on a downward emotional spiral. I kept it in check with external help.
• I watched a few movies last week. I think Drive My Car was the one that stuck with me the most out of the three, but I somehow feel like I’ve been enjoying the movie wrong, since the supportive framework for the main plot, the Uncle Vanya production, resonated more with me than the emotional exploration of the actual plot. I had this issue with In the Mood for Love as well, I was captivated by the visual language and metaphor that expressed the longing but the actual emotional ache that the relationship should’ve made me feel wasn’t there. I wonder if I need to watch them again when I’m in a more tender place. They were still really good movies.
• Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire (I refuse to call it The Vampire Lestat) has come out, I’ve just watched the first episode. I feel like… Well, honestly, this first episode felt very lacking in substance. I appreciate banter as a vehicle for other kinds of depths, but the pacing (breakneck visually and verbally, snail-like in plot) isn’t doing it for me. Granted, it’s the first episode and it is a change of tone with regards to previous seasons, there’s still time. I’ve been wary of them focusing so much on Lestat both for the things that I found compelling about other seasons (relationships between race, power, humanity, memory…) and because he’s not a character that I particularly enjoy. I will finish the season, but we’ll see if I can still consider it a favorite show.
• I had to re-install the self-hosted services I run, losing the attached message history and post history in them. I personally don’t mind much because I remake my accounts all the time but I worry about not being a good enough sysadmin for the two or three people that I invited to share the server with. Despite the data loss, the services are up and running again, I just hope whatever caused the update backlog doesn’t sprout up again.