The Triple Crown of 10k Exchanges

cross-posted from tumblr

Here in Japan, it's already Easter Sunday.

My social media is full of people holding their breath and hoping that it's time to pop the champagne amid rumors that Trump might be at Walter Reed, and he posted something on Truth Social about JD Vance's approval ratings, which he would never typically do.

On the other hand, he was posting things about "reigning" (sic) down fire on Iran if they did not open the Strait. He has a tendency to do things on Friday nights so that the news will be slower but have time to adjust before the opening of the markets on Monday. However, he is also a malignant narcissist whose spiritually deluded closest people are constantly comparing him to Jesus and suggesting that he was chosen to save the country from some kind of worse fate when he is actively making everything in the world worse, especially for Americans.

There are currently rumors about a traffic block going to Walter Reed hospital, accompanied with a media appearance cap for Trump, starting on Friday, which is unusual for a holiday weekend.

So, I am fearful that either a lot of people are having their hopes up that this man is finally succumbing to his own filth and will be disappointed and/or that he is planning to do something even more violent and catastrophic in Iran, which will embolden other autocratic powers such as Russia to do even more than they already have.

Those of you who pray or do spiritual work, please join with me in asking for protection for every person who deserves it in the world and consequences and obstacles from all of those who've never once sought grace or peace in their lives.

First few days back to work are always a slog of meetings mostly in Japanese. They've been doing a better job about projecting real time machine translation in addition to our few brave bilinguals trying to translate in a Google doc.

Today, Saturday, was for some fucking reason scheduled as a mandatory work day for which were getting a comp day next Monday, so even though nothing was scheduled we had to use PTO to take today off. After a little reluctance, I did.

I'll get granted my new bank of PTO days for the year soon.

Monday will also hopefully be just a peaceful admin work day. I hope.

I've still been having weird mood shifts that I can't quite identify the reason for. Transition and change are hard even when their content is neutral.

Haven't had as much luck being creative for the past few weeks. Felt an inkling of drive today but after some voice call socialization with my couple closest friends, I just feel like it's nap time. Tomorrow is Easter, and I would like to go to church. Wish I had a cute outfit but that would be too much effort unless I discover that something I have is cute.

I always get sick around Easter, and these past couple weeks I keep getting a phlegmy cough. Maybe this explains some of my mood issues too: fatigue from minor illness? I don't have official allergies.

Right now I feel pretty okay but wish I felt like making progress on games or creativity. I also just enjoy the quiet and peace to listen to documentaries or nothing at all and wrap up in blankets since I don't get actual human touch.

Written on mobile so not proofread. I can read what I'm writing, but these are letters for ants.