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Filmed between April and June, the show's gruelling timetable demands contestants are driven from their Bristol hotel to the Bake Off tent in Somerset at 6am to film all day on Saturdays, not getting back until 8.30pm, and returning for the same schedule the next day (dressed in the same clothes for continuity).

Wow, that's grueling. I'd be really surly if I had somehow made it onto that show.

From an interview with Brendan (turn on readability as early as you can) from Season 3. He seems like he's leading a really good life right now.

Minor spoilers below







Katt was able to guess that he was gay, but I was completely surprised at the reveal in the last episode that he was a gay Buddhist. I have biases about the aged, even as I myself age!

Yesterday, February 7, artist Domenic Esposito dropped off a massive, unexpected addition to the entrance of Rhodes Pharma.

Wow:

The burnt spoons are crafted from heavy gauge steel with burnt metal patina, weighing 800 pounds and spanning 10.5 feet long, four feet wide, and four feet tall.

Also wow:

80% of heroin users were first prescription opioid users, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse

This is close to perfect art. It's striking, and it's striking at something that's really unjust.

Weird. I've really come to hate the glassiness of mobile phones. There's something about that makes me feel a touch unsettled about their sterility, like being in a hospital.

Accidentally, these hills have the sun behind them.

Very much into this Euclid book with minimal interactivity added.

I want to feel more like this.

I did some in-the-throes-of-the-flu-or-whatever-that-was reflecting. Maybe I'll think these are dumb later, but I had these insights:

- My default thinking cycle is really tiresome. Will this project get done this month? Should I start on this project? How can I move my career in a direction I like, etc. I was lying there with these weird aches, and the thinking was wearing me out, like CNN at the airport.

- Being able to sleep without pain is the greatest possible activity.

- I want to be fully rested more often and see how my work turns out when fully rested. I'm going to stop trying to get up really early. Instead, I'm going to try a "going to bed early" program. If I fail to get up early-ish as a result of that, I'm just going to start going to work later.

- I have a very good home life, and I should enjoy it more instead of considering it checkmark status and doing all this striving for other crap. I should just enjoy myself more in general.

My temp's still at 100.6°F. I feel really ripped off. How many oranges do I have to eat?

I started watching Kingdom on Netflix. It's good so far. It's a Korean period piece centered around a conspiracy involving the undead. There's more conspiracy than zombie right now.

The most striking thing is the power of representation. I've heard much about it, and it made sense. But it really rings through here. It's simply really nice to see Korean people — people that look like people you know or are related to — doing regular things (or at least things that are regular in a movie with zombies in it) and having regular feelings in a movie. (This differs greatly from, say, kung fu movies, which I enjoy, but have almost no character depth, and K-dramas, which people typically watch because they're exotic.)

You don't have to worry about one character portraying some kind of shitty stereotype. There's plenty of characters that occupy all sorts of human roles — ne'er do wells, conformists, the bold, the meek. You can just relax. It's a shockingly strong feeling.

Obviously, this is part of why Black people especially enjoyed Black Panther, and I hope I see more of it.

The inflammation really is a mystery, though. Mr. Skeltal, WTF? I suppose it's adjacent to the muscle aches common to colds.

In case that last post sounded really harrowing: coffee and ibuprofen are already helping.

Me at 7 AM: Well, I have a cough, and my head feels like powerful magnets are pulling it apart, but maybe it'll clear up when I get up and running.

Me at 2 PM: My head feels like weighs 50 lbs., and all of me is inflamed.

(The inflammation is discomfort from various joints and muscles; it is not anywhere near as bad as feeling like you are on fire. It's just bad enough that I can neither fall asleep nor get up.)

Well, at least I didn't try to go through a workday like this.