February 3rd, 2026: Another day of more work. I prayed at the start of the morning and made 3 softboiled eggs with a grapefruit and coffee. I took the bus to work afterwards. I clocked in and sat next to Edgar again, setting up my programming environment. I waited for 9:00am exactly and I went over to Portia and Joy’s office for the meeting. I sat down with Joy and she told me the plan was not to do a cultural booth, but we would be doing a maid cafés history booth and the volunteers (Joy was told she could only get 4 people there at a time including her) in maid outfits. I thought they would make me dress up in a maid outfit in a humiliation ritual but she told me that I’d be dressing like a butler at one of those café’s. I questioned her why we would be doing this when the maid and butler outfits were inherently French in nature, she told me it’s just about the cafés. I suggested to her that she has the signs with the history to be in both English and Japanese. Portia told me she might be getting people to help out for Saturday and Sunday but she hasn’t gotten back from them. I got to work piecing together my outfit, I added a Japanese flag tie to the list of stuff I wanted her to buy for me. I went back to my spot at 9:20pm and continued “working” on programming. The Ukrainian man came over to talk with Edgar to talk about cars. Edgar continued his diatribe about Chrysler cars, he talked about the reason why Chrysler cars sucked and he said:
“They don’t serve the people buying their product.”
I added:
“Shareholders.”
And he then continued with what I said:
“... is who they serve.”
The Ukrainian man started talking about the ZAZ Zaporozhets cars that his grandfather used to own that the Ukrainian man would take rides in, he said there wasn’t much competition between car manufacturers in Soviet Ukraine. I went to get lunch again from the Black guy and he gave me water with ice in it when I requested for no ice. The old guy with the white hair told me I should get the Sicilian square slice pizza and I did. I got back at 12:30pm and saw the Rastafarian plus Wun Wun. Fives asked me for help with a screen display issue and I solved that for a treat of those weird rice crispie like things. I left at 1:15pm to take the bus to campus and followed along with Kaufman’s notes when I got there for what to read. Which was Book XI chapters 1 through 21 of The City of God. I got in there after completing that and all the people came in. Elijah was a bit late and Horseradish taught us about the story of his girlfriend in college having him pass off his work as hers for a class and she got an A. It's been 13 years since he completed his PhD and now his oldest kid is a teenager. I had the fat Hispanic girl with a lot of piercings in her face sit next to me and I talked with her a bit. After class, I asked her if she was free later to come to mass but she said she had work at Pick N Save. Fuck. I walked around and then hung out with Pen Guy, Mahdi, Markus, Markus’ brother, Mercurius the Salvation Army girl, plus a new girl who was joking with Markus about getting her pregnant. I joked back that she needs to get married now, he said they just had a brother sister like relationship and I replied:
“I’ve read A Game of Thrones.”
I made a joke with the Salvation Army girl in a weird tone and Pen Guy said I was looking like I was standing over someone’s bed about to murder them. I corrected him because I only murder people sleeping in cots because they just feel the need to be different. Markus said he'd be going on a date soon with this woman who turned out to be none other than Table #2, he joked that we had such a small young adult scene. I went to the bank to deposit some money and I encountered Agaw, and she told me there was a ballroom dance class that Bernarda was also in. I went to deposit my check and then walked to church with Mercurius but he gave up because my stride was longer. I got there and saw Knitter, I met her boyfriend also. I went downstairs and sat in between Sideburns and Nicodemus, all the other people there included Lewis and his girlfriend (she was looking back at me a few times,) Casta, Bernarda, Alley, Angela’s friend and her friend, Drawmija, Nash, Telemachus, Markus, Markus’ brother, Upsilon, Kaufman, Lorax, Agaw, Magdalus, Cronstedt, Gabriella, Kristine, Sixes and his friend, Amethyst, Stearns, Kalifornia, Danni, Luigi, Jade, and others. The homily was ok and mentioned that it was the feast of Saint Blaise of Sebaste. I was feeling kind of sick so this was absolutely needed. I went to get the throat blessing early and the priest put the two candles crossed in front of my throat (the first time was with the priest who served in Germany) and chanted:
“Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
Tons of people got in line and I went upstairs to eat dinner. I stood near Amethyst where it was announced by Kristine that Amethyst’s birthday was soon, she turns 19 on Thursday. I talked with her for a bit and noticed she had a heart-shaped locket with a picture of her and her boyfriend. I got taco stuff and then went to sit with Telemachus and another guy who knew Joseph. Telemachus showed me a video of a ton of people in Italy doing the Roman salute. Telemachus talked about his French class he took which was the hardest. I left once I finished my meal and as I was doing that, Kaufman offered to take my stuff up for me and I thanked him. I encountered Lewis’ girlfriend and she said excuse me twice. When she came back I full named her including her two middle names, it felt fun. I left at the same time as Mercurius and went to the thrift store to see if I could find a butler’s jacket but got nothing. I went home, took a shower, published my blog, and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Roddy - Djo (2019)
