ultimatum
1. when i told my manager in my 1:1 that i felt like i had lost my credibility because of my bug, she tried to reassure me by saying again that this bug would have happened to anyone else who had handled this task and i was just the unlucky one to draw the short straw and that i hadn't lost my credibility but also that because of the impact of the bug my team had lost some of our shared credibility (felt worse! but i still appreciate the gesture). i'm thankful that i think we'll be able to reactivate the app we've been working on for beta testers after having had to shut it down completely and i'm thankful that hopefully today i will be able to move on to another task and not mess it up like i did this one.
2. the ultimatum: queer love. our winter/spring reality show binge was 90 day fiancé, a show i had seen a few episodes of before but the watching of which we made our primary hobby this winter/spring, consuming several long episodes (each one is an hour and a half, way too long for a tv show, and yet somehow at the end of one the cliffhanger would pull me back in) every night (we have watched up to the current season but haven't started that one yet). i want to write in more detail about it someday, but i am trying to cure myself of "saving" things to write about since often that means never getting to them, so tl;dr but i at its core what makes that show compelling is [mfa program voice] stakes. love island and its ilk (which i have loved a long time) exist in these hermetically sealed environments where the worst that can go wrong is someone you've known for two weeks cheats on you or likes somebody else. whereas every storyline in every episode of 90 day fiancé is overloaded with the problems of the real world and real life: lying, poor communication, class, race, religion, mental illness, parenting, tolstoy family problems, etc. etc. anyway i thought this show had ruined other reality shows for me (which was tragic) but then we decided to take a break and started watching the ultimatum: queer love and a few episodes in i am very here for it, the drama is exquisite.
3. my eternal project is making the music home recording setup in our attic better and easier to use, more conducive to flow and not getting bogged down in looking at the screen, and i'm thankful that deborah was playing with it yesterday during her lunch break and used a feature i added where you can just plug your phone into it and record the line out without having to deal with the recording software and etcetera to record herself singing an original she was working on and a lovely snippet of "motion sickness" by phoebe bridgers.
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