September 8th, 2025: Happy 22nd, birthday to me, I woke up at 7:30am and saw my first birthday wish was from Xebec at 12:05am
<Happy birthday!
>Thank you so much Xebec, 1st one!
<Of course 


I also got a text from a few other people.
Then Rama at 7:40am:
<Happy birthday Gemerson!
>Thank you so much Rama!
My sister at 9:28am:
<HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDDDDDDD
>THANK YOU GARNET!!!!
Vannie at 10:16am:
<Happy birthday gemerson palmer
>That’s not my full first name
<wait what’s your full first name?
>[full first name]
<I hope you talk to [mom] today too its a special day for her as well
My mom at 11:06am:
<Happy birthday sweetie!!
<
>Thank you mom!!!!!!!!!
Adams at 11:57am:
<Birth
>Day
My paternal aunt at 12:33pm:
<Happy Birthday Gemerson!!! Have a great one!
<[Video of a cat singing me happy birthday]
>THANK YOU!!!!!
<
>MONTY!!!!!
Thing Alpha at 12:59pm
<GEMERSON!!! 22!!! Omg youre so old!
>Older than you though!
Thing Beta at 2:41pm:
<happy birthday gemerson!!! 22 ayeeeee
>Thank you very much!
Skeleton at 4:44pm:
<Congrats on making it to the big 18!
>I’m 22…
<Hey, me 2
>Yay
I got out of bed and finished off the last of the corn puff cereal, I made myself some coffee and got the last of the french vanilla powder. I posted a Biblejak, got packed up, brushed my teeth and applied deodorant, and then walked to the busy building to hang out there. I decided to get some coffee there and waited. I remembered I had some homework due at midnight, to read Hesiod’s
Theogony and watch an accompanying lecture. I walked around the library to get in, why? A couple of months back I mentioned that I proposed an agreement with Asherah’s boss that I was not going to go within 50 feet of her workspace, her boss never replied but I kept up my end of the bargain, so while I was taking this extended detour around to keep my part of the agreement. At 10:26am on my detour I walked in front of this bus stop and Asherah herself was there, looking down at her phone. I instantly panicked and walked forwards, hoping that she didn’t notice me, and if she did, she didn’t care at the least. My heart was pounding through my chest as I made my way to the library. I got inside and made my way up to the second floor to overlook. I wondered if she was going to see her grandmother, our Freshman year she mentioned one time she was taking the popular bus route down to see her grandma that lives in the city. I read the lines and took notes before watching the lecture about the succession myth of
Theogony. The thing that they went over was how Gaia the first God gave birth to Ouranos and ate their children before their youngest son Kronos plotted with his mother to overthrow Ouranos and then Kronos and his sister Rhea did the same thing but then Zeus and Rhea teamed up to overthrow Kronos and then Zeus beats the cycle by swallowing his son Metus. I set the video to 1.5x speed and got through that before I headed over to my art history lecture. I completed the accompanying test in 4 minutes getting a 9/10. I packed up and then started walking out, I encountered Markus studying for Latin class on verb conjugation. I walked around until I went to my art history class. The teacher told us this one important line:
“By the time this class is done, you’ll know what Cyprus is, where it’s located, and how to spell it. C-Y-P-R-U-S!”
He talked about the ziggurats in the Mesopotamia region and the Sumerian civilization from c. 5500 BC - c. 1800 BC with the Akkadian civilization from c. 2334 BC - c. 2154 BC which came after it. I got done with my class at 12:20pm and walked over to my discussion class. The woman in charge said she studied Japanese art for her degree but she hates the politics of Japan…My guess she’s an Unseen Japan fangirl. She asked us what our favorite artist was for our introductions and I said Hirohiko Araki (real name: Toshiyuki Araki), there was multiple mentions of Claude Monet. I saw this one girl who kept staring at me. Once we got done with the introduction we finally left, I held the door open for a lot of people. Until I went back to the busy building and waited around there. At 3:16pm I saw Lara but didn’t get to talk to her, I did send her a message asking about her parent’s religious affiliation because of a joke I wanted to tell relating to her actual name. I got a Snapchat message from Dollar Store Asuka at 3:52pm and this disastrous conversation that ensued.
<happy bday
>Come to the [busy building]!
<what for?
I just wanted to play a prank and tell her there was no surprise.
>Suprise!
<!!
<idk man i just got a shot in my leg
<i was gonna go home from the gawdamn student health and welnnesss center
<wellness
I read over it a bit fast and I thought she said she got shot in the leg by a crazed nutjob wielding a gun. Such a poor “Fuck you!” excuse that I got so mad
>
<
>Get AIDS
She got so mad at me that she said AIDS was the only thing she wouldn’t joke about. At the moment of transcribing, they’re gone but she thought it was a joke instead of me just being angry in the moment. She ended it with
<LOL
I replied with 2 apologies but deleted them, she never read them. I went back home and just stayed in bed feeling super sad that my day had just been going shit. I gamed more and then went out to the living room and browsed my phone James came in and didn’t notice me somehow and got shocked by not noticing me. I went back inside and continued doing nothing until 6:48pm when James came into my room to tell me:
“By the way I made some tacos, you can have some if you want, and I just had a concussion so if I’m acting super weird just let me know.”
So I went out and got my food, he told me that he was trying to see where something on the top shelf was and jumped up into a low hanging support thing and hit his head. He ended up fascinated with the green translucent leftover container lighting up the fridge. James told me he’s gonna see the chiropractor tomorrow. I went inside and then got a call from my father at 7:26pm wishing me a happy birthday. I wasn’t super happy during it and he could tell, the phone call ended at 7:29pm and I continued to game until 8:17pm when I got a facetime request from this girl I went to school with but she didn’t join. I then got a text from her which sparked this conversation:
<Sorry, my phone decided to FaceTime you instead of texting lol but happy birthday!
>What, I would have loved to FaceTime!
>And thank you so much!
<Lol just wasn’t what I meant to hit
hope your day is going well!
>It’s not sadly, saw someone I was afraid of seeing and got into a fight with a friend.
<Oh no I’m sorry to hear that
>Thanks, college is probably treating you better than me.
<I’m sorry that’s it’s difficult. Is this your last year?
>Yes, is it the same for you, I have lost my stable social life after moving off campus.
<I’ve definitely had some friendship fallout
<But one more year and then you can move on
>I just have had way too many friendship falling outs, they never talk to me over social media and they’re more receptive in person, but I hardly see them in person anymore.
<That’s hard
She just sounded inconsiderate at this point.
>Once I graduate college, my opportunities to socialize with others are going to be very low. Like I want to get my friends back, find a wife and all that stuff but I just feel like I’m not in control of what goes on in my life and it’s just the same cycle as senior year of high school.
<Yeah I get that these big transitions are really hard. You will find the people you are meant to find though
>I just don’t think it’s going to recover at all. I didn’t manage to build any friendships of my workspaces outside of them.
<I’m sorry
>Thank you, I wish there was something you could do but the only people who could do something won’t.
<That sucks
>Yeah, I am super fortunate to talk to you again and I wish we could talk more.
<Yeah I agree
>We could text more often.
>What do you want to do after college.
<I’m working on applying for grad school to be a speech pathologist but the whole process is so uncertain so we’ll see where I end up
>I just want to go straight into the workforce and I got a job already lined up.
<Nice! What job?
>IT support, I start September 22nd.
<That’s awesome!
I took a shower and then finally went to sleep feeling slightly better.
Song of the Day: Happy Birthday To You - Marilyn Monroe (1962)