It’s the 100πth day of the year.

I watched Persepolis (2007). What a film, it’s one of my favourite movies now. Gorgeous. Gonna take a while to fully digest. I deeply appreciate France for being one of the strongholds of animations in the world, because the world deserves for this film to be made, and we don’t see films like this come out of Japan — both graphically and thematically.

Feels like I’m largely just running around doing chores again today. At least it’s less of a backlog and more of a matter of lifting things to a higher standard; the house is nice and clean again as well now and so is the PC. This website is also getting a lot of TLC bit-by-bit.

Tomorrow’s the anniversary of the end of WWI which is a national holiday here, so my partner’s taken today off as well for the long weekend. We were neutral in WWI where I’m from, but we do celebrate St. Martin’s Day on 11/11. I was hoping to spend the long weekend focusing on music production, but we’re 2.5 days into running chores instead so far; at least the end of that is in sight.

I’m gonna start sending out job applications today; I’m also still available for contracting and will be reaching out to more people for that as well, but finding gigs is hard and some financial stability would be very welcome right now. I’m looking for parttime and/or full-remote positions, preferably both. I’m pretty anxious about the job search… I’m plenty confident in my skills as an engineer, but I have a pretty irregular employment history and a language barrier with the country I reside in, with parttime/full-remote being yet another constraint on top of that. At least we don’t need very much extra income at all, but conversely we are also capital-B Broke right now. End of year bonuses and rebates will take some of the pressure off; that’s another ~2 months out, but will presumably arrive before stable employment regardless.

I want to start writing my Summer 2025 Anime Retrospective soon. I have my thoughts worked out, so it’s just a matter of finding the time to sit down and write it (I haven’t yet finished Bad Girl either).