*record scratch* *freeze frame*

Instructions unclear, couple months have passed??

Unordered list of things as they come to mind:

• Got my official promotion letter just this week (and lots of congrats messages from colleagues, which is nice) and a pay raise before that as part of a company-wide review, so I guess that's pretty much my work goal boxes ticked for the year?
• Alas, now that we're attendng things in the flesh again, work also means I have to go on my first official trip later this year, but admittedly there was never any helping that. (I don't like travelling for the most part, if that's not obvious.)
• Trip last month concluded without incident, and definitely much less mishaps than if we'd scheduled it even one week later, so I guess we lucked out in that regard.
• Neighbourhood cat has been amenable to headpats of late, at least when I do manage to spot it en route.
• Frankly this past however-long has been just Bad for the attention span in general, but the brain gremlins got back onto the giffing train lately. Always nice to have a reason to zen mode focus on details with zero stakes at play.
• Almost caught up with 开始推理吧 after casually binging it over the past week (having got stuck in the early cases re: above on attention span) and I like it even more than I thought I would! Which was already a fair bit, given both the ZS content and similarity to 明侦, so that was a nice surprise. And yes, I am now tempted to gif more of it.
• I've also been watching a fair bit of 世界ネコ歩き in a mix of CN subbed and without – bonus points for being both 癒やし系 and good practice.
• Pretty much everything else watched lately has been as a side effect of someone else in the house watching it, of which only 3年A組 stands out for the acting and strategic trope usage.
• Other media consumption: both Hungry Hearts Diner games, a Thief of Time reread, and so much ZS content. I need to update my song playlist with all the new stuff, on that note.