katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

aaaand now I need to make sure I actually practice.

Frustrating is that the manufacturer sells two VERY similar models, and they're both well-regarded, but the sound sample videos from the retailer are recorded in two totally different environments so I can't actually compare the sound, or find much online directly comparing them

...I ended up getting the one I liked the color of more.

...okay maybe some stuff from BOTW if it transcribes okay.

...just on principle, I'm not gonna play any Zelda music :p

So yeah I just bought a highly-regarded bright yellow plastic alto ocarina :D

Hm, does anyone have experience with ocarinas?

Oh, and portable is a big plus.

Hm. Still kind of want to learn some way to make music.

Does anyone have suggestions for an instrument that's affordable and relatively easy to pick up for someone who might be spotty at practicing?

whatever, I can get the headphones and put on loud noise music.

...well now I made myself sad. Good job, me.

I'm really mad at myself about that, honestly.

And my partner tried really, really hard to convince me to finish the process and I was too upset to listen.

I was like 90% of the way through the application process for apprenticeships with them (which took MONTHS) and I bailed at the very end when they required some surprise extra hoops to jump through that I didn't expect. I felt like I couldn't ask for that time off of work.

It was the wrong choice, and I knew at the time it was the wrong choice, but I was too frustrated and just walked away. I should have just quit that current job instead.

Trying to work on job stuff would be a lot easier if the idea of cold-calling the union didn't fill me with anxiety.

I cleaned the bathroom sink instead.

Oh, hey, Max Gladstone AMA on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/8gs22e/i_am_max_gladstone_i_write_books_about_lawyers/

Should work on job search but I really don't know how to actually do that outside of applying to shit on craigslist, which is like the worst way to actually get hired?

How does networking work :|

I slept in and then had an eight-ounce mocha, and now I want to swordfight an angel or something.