It's still going okay.  I have my 5th match coming up for ALTTPR and I've been trying to cram for that to make sure I'm prepared.  Fortunately, it'll be a morning match this time, so I won't be spending the whole day anxious about it like last time.  Obviously I want to do my best and win, but I'm trying to also remind myself that losing is a very real possibility and that I shouldn't really come in with set expectations here, no matter how tempting it is.

I got my first clear of Ravenswatch on Nightmare (the highest) difficulty, so that was nice and fun.  Felt good to check that off for one character, at least.  I kind of had a shaky week in general where I got thrown off by a number of things that happened, including my power and/or internet being cut at awkward times.  I dealt with a super annoying Rhythm Quest bug too, really frustrating to spend time on but at least I've ironed it out.

The dating app stuff continues to be something that I seem to have an ok attitude with.  These apps are in this weird space where everyone kinda just seems to have this presumption that they're this sort of necessary evil somehow?  I think that was a real turn-off for me I think, in line with the way I've viewed a lot of things in the past, actually.  Like, why should we settle for things that we don't really want in our lives?  That kind of feeling.  It's like when people talk about how "networking" is really important and maybe it pushes kids to go to "networking" events and also treat it as some sort of weird necessary evil.

Look, as I grew up as a child and a young adult I understood very well that sometimes you just need to work the system and play by the rules, but I think there are cases where sometimes people are so used to that mentality that they end up making new rules for themselves that don't actually need to be there in the first place.  Maybe frequently it's all because of falsely assumed shared values and a pigeonholed view of what everyone's aim should be.

I dunno what else there is, really.  Things are rolling along, as they do.  Somehow I haven't felt the terrible sort of existential or just acute loneliness in a while, which I'm grateful for.  I'm not actually sure why, probably just I'm doing enough healthy things to keep engaged with my life, either that or I'm just stuck on the treadmill enough to not really notice it.  But I guess I won't complain about it too much.