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[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

Gen Z boss and a mini

Also she has a very Black haircut sometimes.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 5th, 2026: It’s Butch’s birthday today, and also Rose’s cat Maui’s 7th birthday, if you don’t remember who Maui is, he was the cat I was holding in my first ever facedox of myself I posted in like 2024. I had coffee and cereal before starting to talk with my mom about ordering more tickets starting at 7:08am:
<Hey, today is the day you can get extra tickets for the graduation. Please try as soon as you can.
I tried calling her but she didn’t answer, she texted me continuing:
<In a meeting. What's up?
<Get as many tickets as you can.
>Will Jared, Thing Beta, and Thing Alpha be there?
>I can get 4 more.
<Yes. Get as many
<Godmother is coming so is Beer Aunt, Ford, Photograph aunt, Eileen.
<Let's discuss who should get the other tickets.
>There’s only a second round of ticketing so far.
<Ok
I signed up and chose my grandfather along with my 3 cousins on my dad’s side of the family but I only had my grandfather’s email and Thing Beta’s. I then texted her:
>Do you know Thing Alpha’s and Jared’s emails?
<No I only have Thinga Beta’s. Hold off, we need to discuss who should get the tickets.
I wasn’t going to hold off as I had to take the bus to work and there was a mad dash for tickets, probably. I got into work and for the most part Staples wasn’t there because she’s sick, the Ukrainian man was there and I worked more. Tia needed help with her account being unlocked because she input the wrong password too many times. I went to the meat store for lunch and bought 4 precooked hot dogs for $3.00 and had some free crackers with it.


I got back to my work and then left at 1:00pm. I took the bus to my classes and stayed in my religious studies classroom for a while. I got a notification for a 500 word handwritten essay rough draft due on Thursday, I was going to flip as the movie wouldn’t even be going on then. I skimmed through the reading and then wrote a lot more. Kaufman, Mahdi, Markus’ brother, and Magdalene were sitting in their desks today and after Horseradish got in, Magdalene asked the question:“Would it be a sin to lie to a guy and say that you have a boyfriend when you actually don’t.”
I asked her:
“I thought you had a boyfriend?”
She told me:
“No, we broke up.”
“Was it because he’s an Episcopalian?”
“No?”
“Ohh, he’s an ‘affirming’ Episcopalian?”
“No, he’s an atheist.”
“So that’s why you broke up with him?”
“No, that was only one reason.”
“I just listed three reasons.”
“Well it’s none of your business.”
I thought a tiny bit then said:
“Because I’m not getting paid?”
She went silent and Kaufman said that there should be a book of quotes that I say. In terms of actual advice, I told Magdalene to say she doesn’t date non-Catholics yet she revealed she just got catcalled on the way to class, my guess is said catcaller is Black. I read these titles for saved Twitch clips from LowTierGod with extremely disparaging titles, even reading a few off to my friends including the famous one:
<LowTierGod Brags About New Home Like A Twitch Ban Wont Send Him Back To Low Income Housing And Trovo
And others including:
<LowTierGod Rants About My Titles But Struggles To Read Them Because Even The Slow Classes Felt Fast
<LowTierGod Complains About His New Home Because They Built it Out Of Mega Blocks And FEMA Scrap
<LowTierGod Talks About Why He Doesn't Want To Get Married Like He Has A Choice [REUPLOAD]
<LowTIerGod Hates His Daughter So Much He Thinks The Word Child Is A Slur In His Chat
<LowTierGod Gets Mad At The Thought Of Being A Present Father Even In A Hypothetical
<LowTierGod The Chicken Leg Commander Wants To Bodyshame Another Black Woman
In class, Horseradish mentioned the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio and another very similar college in Illinois as examples of someplace where you’re taught the trades and the liberal arts. Bringing up a passage from the Iliad where armor is forged and how different it is interpreted when you have experience forging things. We talked about stuff that I had little understanding of. I then walked out, I talked to Magdalene a bit and she sounded more pissed than last time even with my joking. At the place, Gabriella told me that the 4 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment I found for her was what she would be moving into as she toured it earlier, she thanked me for helping find it. At 4:00pm: Lewis’ ex-girlfriend said Father Rocky has been in her house before, like the Rosary guy, in her actual home. A bit later at 4:04pm: The Honduran told me he’s from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. I snagged this weird Reese’s peanut butter chocolate bar and put it in my backpack. I felt less and less welcome, even after praying down in the chapel. I decided to leave but a bit later I went back down and asked Gabriella if someone needed to do the readings, she said she got that covered. I texted Sophia at 4:44pm over Snapchat:
>Do you think you can come to Tuesday mass at 5:15pm?
She replied with this and continued the conversation:
<Today,
<?
>Yeah you don’t know about the masses here?
<I’m literally at the ER right now with a friend cause she’s super sick
<But if we get done in time then absolutely I will
<I know I also have Bible study today but that may get canceled cause the leader has something going on
I swear the one time I do practically everything right I still manage to fucking repell people from church. I left and nobody said anything except a woman asking me:
“Oh hey Gemerson! Wait where are you going?”
I ignored them, you see the thing is that I grew up as the special ed kid in my school among many, in the middle in terms of dummyed levels, so popular girls (especially my sister’s friends 2 grades up) treated me like pets, as they currently are. I wrote more and finished up my homework at home while I watched YouTube videos. After a while, there was a spot of land undiscovered on SuperLocalMaps near the river that I decided to explore, I walked out to the park, down the trail, and into I eventually talked to James the Greater and then went to bed.

Song of the Day: Caledonia - Dougie MacLean (1977)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 6th, 2026: Hell today. I woke up as normal and dressed with my vinyl jacket and normal wear, getting into work I programmed a wee bit when Seth M came over to me at 9:15am. He talked about a meeting 1 on 1 for team communication at 10:00am and I begrudgingly agreed. I checked my calendar for an invite at 10:00am which was to be held in the Latinx lady’s office. I went in and as I was to sit down, Mrauku asked me to replace his ink toner, which I obliged. I then went back and started to have my phone record in my pocket if push ever turns to legal shove. She told me there was some issues with my work and one time asked her if she needed her paper refilled, which was like a few weeks ago and also the I’m watching you gesture. I would best describe it like the meme clip of Doakes from Dexter. I just sat stone faced and emotionless for most of the lecture, my anger for Nailisi growing more and more. I eventually got them off my tracks and the first thing I did when getting back to my desk is to open up Instagram and block every single one of my coworkers on Instagram. Except for Edgar, he doesn’t seem like much of a moralcaca. At 10:40am I texted Alise and started the conversation:
>I just got called in for a meeting to warn me because I joked with another coworker.
>I just gave them the “I’m watching you.” Gesture when I spotted them on their phone and they got so ass mad.
<Oop well that stuff happens ig
>It was a lecture about me and other coworkers (read: the no fun one) so I blocked a ton of them on Instagram.
<I mean you just have to be more careful about what you say/ do keep your personal life personal and your professional life professional
>I went absolutely scorched earth in blocking them. Even when most of them never followed me in the first place.
<That seems like a lot but understandable
>Yeah I’ll also start talking to them a lot less.
<Probably a good plan
>Also I decided to start looking for a new job.
<I think your upset and thinking irrationally and realistically you need to take a few breaths go for a walk and sleep on that decision
>I’m not gonna tell them right now.
<Understandable
>Like I’ll search but keep it quiet.
I continued to work until I went to buy cheese for lunch with crackers, eating the entire wedge of cheese and some crackers as I went back in at 12:30pm and waited a bit longer before heading to class. I took the bus there and got in while Naruhito was on his computer, the class started and Naruhito told us that he was lucky to not have to work during college as he was on disability, he could easily walk, I kept writing in my diary for the class. I messaged the woman from a few days ago:
<You mentioned having a friend who works at [big company] last week right?
>yeah
<Do you think I could get into contact with him?
Left on fucking read. I left for my next class and got bored about directed graphs and I did really well on the graph test. I then went to the meeting to work on the presentation in the library basement with the windows where you can see out to the trees and it looks like a greenhouse or the domes. Well the woman joined me and then we went over to the other man and good Logan were elsewhere so we went up to our reserved room. It turns out the girl never bothered to click the confirm listing button. I did my work and writing and even mentioned wanting to pick up HolyC as a hobby programming language, the girl mentioned that Torvalds taught her about Terry A. Davis in freshman year. She talked about later having her ex-boyfriend fail on an exam during senior year, she mentioned him cheating so I just assumed that he brought a cheat sheet for the test and still fucked up. She told me he actually cheated on her relationship wise. I left after completing that, I walked home, showered, and then wrote until going to bed at 11:36pm.

Song of the Day: Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing - Stevie Wonder (1972)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 7th, 2026: Another day of hardly any shit to do. I woke up at 6:30am and took the bus to work. I was dressed ok and I got to work programming. I got my coffee again and while I was writing in the code, Seth M came over to me to ask about the cleaned spreadsheets, I realized I had only done 2 of the 3 to fullness and he told me that he can have the Ukrainian man work on doing the 3rd one while I worked on programming, I fucked up, it’s the largest one of the 3 and had cases dating all the way back to 1991. I proceeded to code and then tried to figure out a trick for downloading the data so I could work on it at home and pretend like it was already done and I just found it. I had Tia come over to me to ask me to print her an ID for one of her freelance underlings, I had reminded her multiple times that I couldn’t access the Google Photos links but could access the Google Drive links for images, Tia mailed it to me directly. I did it quite quickly and then handed it to her for her to hand to the person themselves. I checked my phone and now there’s news about Canvas being hacked, the website my school uses got hacked, for the school stuff:


And now they’re demanding ransom money. I went over to the other pizza place to eat. I had a slice of cheese pizza and then went to work a bit more and then classes. On the way I found out RFK jr was going to reduce SSRIs and it caused a chimpout in the girl I was a grade below in high school:<If RFK Jr takes away my SSRIs I swear to fucking God I will rain hell
<1. No one is overprescribing antidepressants, more people are being diagnosed with depression due to those with depression having children and/or the horrific state of the world
<2. Yeah, coming off of SSRIs is really hard, that's why you shouldn't do it unless you seriously don't need them anymore!!!, in which case, you were probably on a low dose to begin with
<3. DEPRESSION IS NOT "PREVENTABLE" IT'S A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT ALTERS THE CHEMICALS IN YOUR BRAIN - maybe try to make life less fucked and allow for funding of mental health care and research instead of taking people off of their fucking meds
I laughed at that dummy. I got in and found out I had to print out 2 readings. I read them both and then started on what I think is the final class of my week. I understood it more but still hardly, Nash was doing the critical annotation today and I walked back. I then walked back home and had dinner consisting of store bought ramen with too much oil in it and an egg before departing back for my group meeting for the final recording. I got there at 6:30pm and waited outside with the guy to see that a group of 6 women, including Oriang, we joked around and I found out she’s not working at the kindergarten any more but I didn’t remember why. A10 was on his phone a bit and the girl in our group told us she basically cheated on her final exam like everybody else in the room. I worked (signing up for Family Search) but I spotted Lizzo sitting outside our reserved room through the glass, I called her and it took a while until she looked around and spotted me. When I left at 7:30pm for an event I talked with her, she told me she’s drawing for a class where you had to take some poetry and put it into another art form. I walked to the conservative meeting meeting and it was some pizza with almost nobody there except Supersenior, Moreno, Markus’ brother, and 2 others. We browsed google maps and talked about homes: Markus’ brother’s uncle lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina and lives in St. Joseph, Indiana. I sent a message that I might need to stay in the city to study for my final. I realized I needed to find a way to get to Colorado now by flight because Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd. I left at 9:00pm to head home, shower, and go to sleep.

Song of the Day: Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen (1982)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 8th, 2026: Final day of work for the week and presentations. I got up at 6:30am and had oatmeal plus coffee. I dressed in my polyester eton jacket, my Hemrajani brothers white button-up, black dress pants, my white gloves, my cyan tie, and normal shoes. I took the bus earlier than usual and got in like 20 minutes early to spend most of the early time quickly creating the new spreadsheet to fit the format that Seth M wanted. I then submitted it at roughly 9:30am and told him I had to do some cleanup, which I did. I had to unlock Lillehammer’s computer before leaving and went to the bus at 10:20am. I took it to classes and walked in the giant presentation room I was to be in. I got sat down and then the other 4 members of the group joined me later on, with the girl and good Logan being better dressed than me. We started the presentations at 11:00am. Group 1 was gone for the time so they did it counting up, we are group 9. The presentations were burning but Thomas was the grader for this class. We went up to present and I also spotted my roommate James presenting later. At 1:09pm I sent Seth M a text about it taking longer than usual. I left after the second to last presentation and almost missed the bus on the way back. I clocked back in and then went to get pizza at the usual pizza place. I went back to doing next to nothing until 4:28pm when I clocked out and took the bus home. I got back and said hi to James the greater. I waited for a short time until 5:30pm when I got walking all the way to the rich neighborhood for the senior night sendoff. I passed some Jewish kids and even a complex that is so large it’s questionable what the fuck goes on there, it’s like 1/4th of a large block in size. I got there at the same time as Mahdi, to the same place as the pool party. We got in and I spotted Kristine there along with Jade, the priest, oSeraphim, Cronstedt, Magdalus, the Honduran, I was the best dressed for the event and I had some pictures taken with my wine.


I discovered some location stuff like: oSeraphim being from Mequon, Jade being from Kaukauna, Wisconsin, Mahdi is from Fond Du Lac, Illinois, and Cronstedt is from Duluth, Minnesota. I ate stuff from the charcuterie board and later at like 7:00pm we gathered in the living room to get the stuff some kids at a parish made this is the one I picked up from a girl named Cora:



Some of the others there looked at the many bags they made for all those who RSVP’d and also had books wrapped and underneath the bags. This was another one where the kid tried to depict the harrowing of Hell:



Practically everybody wanted it but I didn’t get it. We then opened it up to include a flashlight, a wood cut out of Cavalry, the scene of the crucifixion, an Ignatius Bible which you can zip closed, and a flashlight I attached to my keychain. Father Aquinas had the people talk about community and serving a parish. We went downstairs after talking and watched an image slideshow of all of us. There was one image of me and Oriang staring at the camera, she’s not here so she never got to see it. I left at 8:00pm as they told us to do. I got home and took a shower after getting undressed. At 9:41pm, I found out that grandma Jane had a stillborn sibling and my dad Platt has his second middle name after his mom’s mom’s dad’s middle name. Lol. Well I went to sleep pretty late but at 10:59pm. Vannie sent me this image:


I think it might have been for English class but that’s the earliest image you’re getting of me. I also found out today that I got demoted from being an approver on the booru to a regular janitor.

Song of the Day: Deep Blue Sea - Grizzly Bear (2009)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 9th. 2026: A lazy Saturday today where I had 4 poptarts for breakfast and made coffee to go with. I thought that mother’s day was today but it’s actually not, it’s tomorrow. At 7:21pm fAsherah replied to the thing I sent her yesterday about budget and staffing cuts and started this conversation:
<YEAH IK IT SUCKS
<they cut our AP and its like ok whos gonna do all that work now
This one was related to Tiffany’s Instagram post:
<lol i dont have her on anything what was it !!
>It was something promiscuous or whatever, even though she has a boyfriend.
>So you’re getting cut right?
<No actually ! Theyre actually hiring a bunch more Additional paras, theyre only firing assistant principals and other staff positions its a little weird
<That sounds right for her lol
<She needs that male validation
<The way she would flirt with every Old Man she saw
>Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I worked on writing my discussion post and completed it 10 minutes before the due time of 10:00am. I gamed a bit more and finally got the D: drive working on my desktop so after playing some more Holdfast, I decided to do the laundry and while I was walking over I ate some Good & Plenty I bought, almost the entire box but got sick near the end. I went back after putting things in the washer. I had a pumpernickel sandwich with cheese, prosciutto, and vegemite on it. I did some genealogy work on FamilySearch and found out many interesting things:

1. Grandma Jane’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s dad was a guy name Uranus Voelke (1470 - 1530) born in Nothweiler, Nothweiler, Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and died in the same place. This guy’s not famous, I just find his name cool.
2. Jane’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad is Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, who was an illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England, So he’s my 16th great-grandfather.
3. Jane’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s mom’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s dad’s mom’s mom’s dad is Johannes Luther (June 17th, 1526 - October 27th, 1575) who is Martin Luther’s son
4. Now for a lineage not involving grandma Jane. My dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s mom’s mom’s dad is Jean de Dunois (November 23rd, 1402 - November 24th, 1468) whose dad’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad is none other than Saint Louis IX (April 25th, 1214 - August 25th, 1270)
5. Jane’s mom’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad is Sir William Philips (1517 - 1574) who has a weird gap where it just says parent (living) then Joan Dwnn (1442 - deceased) has her mom’s mom's dad as James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (1361 - September 7th, 1405) then his dad’s mom’s mom’s mom’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s dad’s mom’s mom’s mom’s mom’s dad is… The Prophet Muhammad…

I continued to game more until I was made aware of a bar crawl going on, the first stage was from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and you had to get a wristband at some bars, I took the bus over at 3:30pm and went to the first bar as walked past tons of graduates of the rich kids college all over the place. I went in and tried to get an order but it felt like the 3 bartenders were ignoring me, there was a group of women wearing our college’s t-shirts, I noticed this woman I had been to school with since like kindergarten and a woman with vibrant hot-pink hair, the hot-pink hair girl noticed me and was so excited to see me. I didn’t remember who she was at first but she was the chemical engineer I met while waiting for the bus, we talked a bit and then with the woman I went to school with, I asked if I could join their group mistakenly and the chemical engineer said yes. I didn’t join them but went to another bar where more people celebrating graduation were, I noticed the 3 bartenders were all wearing the same exact black form-fitting, outfit which was like shorts and a tank top, it just confused me, not really sexually arousing. I ordered a rum and coke but asked for what I could get with my wristband, she said a $3 cherry bomb, I changed my order to that but ended up getting both and was charged for them. I spotted the chemical engineer come in and she didn’t seem as friendly, I stood by myself until I drank all my drinks and then went to another bar and didn’t drink there but went home. For dinner was 3 fried eggs and mixed vegetables stirred in with the small amount of rice remaining. I started watching season 1 of Gen V and almost got filtered by it but the ending fight between Jordan Li and Golden Boy reeled me in. I went to take a shower later after more gaming and writing and then read my Bible, opening up to a random chapter, which was Numbers 19, at first I didn’t understand the meaning of randomly opening to it but near the end with the passage Numbers 19:20-22:
☛20 “But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is unclean.
☛21 And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
☛22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
I understood what that meant, I needed to go to confession tomorrow.

Song of the Day: Fly - Sugar Ray, Super Cat (1997)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 10th, 2026: Mass today, I woke up at 7:00am and got breakfast, which was oatmeal, I made myself coffee and then called my mom for mother’s day. The conversation started off well but then I had to tell her about me moving apartments and that my landlady initially went with not renewing the lease then asking to renew the lease after Waleran and I already found a new place, plus needing to be at graduation at 12:30pm for the graduates first. I then texted her later to apologize and she accepted it. I played more Fire Emblem Awakening, I made little progress except for some grinding. I got dressed for church, which was my Billy London blazer, my Paul Frederick white button-up, black dress pants, my belt, and regular shoes. I walked over to mass at 9:45am and got in to smell bacon cooking. Cronstedt was in charge of that and he asked me to hold open the crock pot so he could pour it in. Kristine and Magdalus were also there, as was Markus’ brother. Upstairs was Lewis’ ex-girlfriend, Nash, Luigi, and Oriang practicing choir, Oriang told them that I kicked her and her 5 friends out of the study room they were using for 6 hours. I went down for confession and the priest recognized that I was confessing to lust yet again and told me that I’m a tech guy so I should download this anti-porn app which doesn’t block porn websites on your phone, but it sends screenshots of your phone to a friend. No thank you, I’ll find another app. I volunteered to do the first reading:
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17
☛5 Philip went down to a city of Samarʹia, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
☛6 And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to what was said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs which he did.
☛7 For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice; and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.
☛8 So there was much joy in that city.
☛14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,
☛15 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
☛16 for it had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
☛17 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
While the Honduran was doing the second reading of 1 Peter, among others there were Markus, Amethyst, Lewis sitting next to me, Frogiaggine acolyting, the Honduran’s mom, the Honduran’s dad, and the Honduran’s sister Telemachus, Sixes and his friend, Swifte, Morgado, Angela’s friend’s friend, and others I forgot about. The homily was ok and after receiving the Body and Blood of Christ, the two mothers in the crowd went up to receive the priestly blessing for mother’s day. We went out to get breakfast, the egg bakes were good but the bacon mixed with normal ham was bad. I saw Markus flirting with this new woman here and I just got more disgusted with him. I went outside and ate at the tables there by myself before departing at 11:57am. I got home and played more Holdfast Nations at War. In terms of birthday’s, it’s Hannah and Sideburns’ cousin’s 21st birthdays and Titania’s 23rd birthday. I remembered there was a dance event every Sunday from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. I took the bus at 3:25pm and got there a bit early, it was the same person I did the altarboy training with in early 2025. We learned more bachata and the guy said that there was going to be a woman who was a trained dance instructor, we learned the penguin hold (cross hands then have one hand over the person.) At 5:00pm the woman came in, she was an older and much shorter woman wearing jeans and an azure blue sweatshirt, we did more partner dancing to practice and she told me to take shorter steps as she was like a foot shorter than me and described the process to move your feet correctly as: “Letting it be like you’re on an air mattress floating in the middle of the ocean.” She told me she’s actually Lutheran and I mentioned a Lutheran church near the trad one, she also told me that her nephew was Eastern Orthodox and told her about a Greek Orthodox church he went to in this city. I ended up leaving at 5:35pm to catch the bus back. I spotted the chemical engineer’s story post on Instagram about the bar crawl, I just replied:
>Bruh.
And she continued the conversation:
<did you call it early last night? i didn’t see you past the second round of bars
>Yes…
>I didn’t come with a group…
<aw well if you ever see me out again feel free to tag along! i didn’t know most of the people i was with the whole night hahaha
>Ohhh lol, I mean they were all women so.
>Also recently at work I got called in for a meeting because a coworker I thought I was chill with got upset at me jokingly doing the Doakes “I’m watching you” gesture at them while they were on their phone.
I took the bus back and then made dinner and gamed more, I also published my blog post then I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: El Beso Que No Le Di - Romeo Santos, liaro Rodríguez (2019)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 11th, 2026: Back to work today. I got up and bought cereal for breakfast from the convenience store, there was a real woman working at the only register open but I didn’t have the courage to call them sir while leaving the place. I had cereal and then I got dressed for work after posting an article about Gen Z women pretending to be psychic and loving astrology to Kiwifarms’ A&N board. I got out and took my usual bus which arrived later than usual at 8:11am. I got off and then into work just to clock in at 8:29am. I made coffee in the break room and spotted the bagels that were out. For the birthday posters Edgar made, there’s Mauer, Gasabo, and Keke. We started off with a speech from this guy in charge of our 401k. He answered some questions but I wasn’t eligible to sign up as you needed to work with the company for 1 year before you could get it. Nailisi and Kiana were back full time due to finishing finals but I didn’t care for Nailisi and I hate her, I was proud of Kiana. Here’s the CEO’s speech:
“Good morning, folks. I'll start off by saying that we're going to start getting our trainings. We have to do them yearly. It's part of our grants. We have to make sure that we have our typical trains, for operations. One of the ones that will probably be July, maybe June- July, because of [unintelligible] work that we're doing is extending our ability to coordinate these things as the active shooter. I'm a little bit concerned about that right now because our pathway exit that we had trained before is interrupted, so we'll take a look at that. I think this year's training we'll look at what happens if there is temporary construction in the way or whatnot, would be the alternative, that we get all a rally to. So it brought that to mind. So keep your eye out for that when that will occur, at this point with the work that we're doing admin wise, we're kind of swamp right now. Probably June and July, and then there'll be other HR trainings that we're going to be doing as well. As far as meetings with the community, things are pretty stable, most of everybody is in a holding pattern. A lot of the community are in rescue mode, what I mean by that as I go out there and look for funding, they're looking for institutes and organizations that are in heavy need and so sometimes success can get in the way of that, but it's our job to nonetheless show what we do, because a lot of it has to do with what resonates with the agencies out there that have funds, that has to align with their mission. So we just need to make sure that we're actually doing what we say we do, doing with fervor, and that'll actually get us a good seat in front of them. So other than that, I don't have very many updates. We're getting ready to go to DC in June. There's a whole series of trainings that we have to do before we go. So if you have any questions that are a little bit more personal, I'll talk to your supervisors first, and if you need, you'll be able to set up a meeting with your supervisor, yourself and me as well. So any general questions right now? All right, keep up the good work. Make sure you document everything you do.” - The CEO.
I ended up speaking later and it was some generic stuff about what I’d be doing. I went out to get another bagel to eat. I continued to pretend to work for a while and did a paper refill run because I could. I went to get pizza at the other pizza place and sat upstairs, which is the one good thing about that pizza place is that you get a feeling of privacy I don’t get at the other place. I enjoyed my pizza and Mountain Dew can in peace, I got back and proceeded to code a bit more until I clocked out at 12:59pm and walked over to take the bus to classes. When I got off the bus, I spotted Sabrina and her roommate moving something out to their car and I said hi to her, I offered to help them carry out the I stopped by a vending machine in the busy building to buy a Rockstar energy drink and then save it until I walked a bit and spotted a RedBull car, I went to get a can, they gave me the regular flavor so I walked to my creative writing class and tried to put the Rockstar energy in a cooler pocket I had in my backpack, it turns out there was a can of Sprite in there. The people present included Naruhito, Malthus, and Chloie. The teacher brought cookies and asked at 2:33pm if anybody was allergic to anything, Chloie said she is allergic to pineapple. We had people read and only 2 of them were shitlib slop. As we left for the final class, I noticed Chloie sitting on the ground sad, not looking at her phone. I felt triumphant at the person who tried screwing over.
Don’t try to play the victim over some dummyed shit.
I thought to myself in a state of victory. I walked to my next class and along the way spotted Pen Guy talking with Urbino and Mahdi, I did go to my next class which was slightly better but still boring and stuff about Dijkstra’s algorithm. I left and then went home, but I took an alternate path which led me past none other than Sabrina’s roommate moving into her new apartment, she told me that she was a Junior and I even got her Instagram, by talking to a random friendly woman in an alley. I bought instant mac and cheese and had that for dinner while I worked on the group project review due tomorrow. I heard that Father Aquinas needed help moving stuff into the new church and by 6:25pm Markus’ brother and I were down there and we moved 8 2” x 10” planks into the church where the altar should be, I just held doors open mostly. I suggested to Father Aquinas that sometime in the summer, I could come and powerwash all the concrete by bringing a powerwasher from home. Markus’ brother gave me a tour of the whole place and I was quite impressed by it. I got back home and took a shower before finally going to sleep at 10:30pm.

Song of the Day: Pump It Up (Extended Mix) - Endor (2019)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 12th, 2026: Tuesday, I woke up to the alarm going off at 6:30am I knew I had my final exam for the film today but it’s just a movie. I wished James the Greater a happy 22nd birthday I had cereal and coffee before heading to the bus stop for work. I got in and started programming, there were still some bagels leftover from yesterday so I had one and the went back to work programming. I made a little progress on the SQL migration I needed. At 9:25am, I overheard Tia describing her brother as being 5’11” and also her sister to Threes. I just wrote it down at the time. I did a prayer while nobody was watching. While nearly dozing off to sleep, Seth M came over and asked what I was working on, I told him the employers tab and he understood me. I went back to doing nothing for a while until I had to help more with tech stuff and got Gasabo’s multi-monitor display back up and running. I went to the meat store to get sliced ham and crackers, as the weather wasn’t as good as yesterday so I ate inside. I think I repelled Staples from her usual spot for lunch but I did nothing after getting back to work. I took the bus to class afterwards and got an energy drink. I sat in the classroom for a long time and even typed on my computer, more people came in like Mercurius, Magdalene, Nash, Kaufman, Elijah, Markus’ brother, and the usual people there. There was a discussion between Horseradish and Magdalene about the final essay, I commented a little bit and then Horseradish clarified the length as 600 words. I then stated:
“So basically two discussion posts.”
Magdalene got all upset and she said:
“Please don’t insult me!”
I was taken aback at how dummyed she was. That wasn’t an attack or an insult, or even remotely one. We then got to watching the short film Dekalog: One. I took notes on paper using my laptop as something to write on and I loved it, I loved the atmosphere but was indifferent on the architecture, but at least in Poland they made cheap apartments for the common folk instead of for old people and Black people. I talked with Nash about Bakhita not showing up despite him seeing her constantly at her work. I think she’s avoiding me (dummy) so I told him to ask her why. I walked to the Catholic center after that and worked on writing my draft for it. Luigi was there and so were Magdalene, Luigi, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend, Markus’ brother, and Elijah. Elijah was drafting his final essay on paper when there was discussion between Magdalene and Lewis’ ex-girlfriend about feminism for a bit and they described themselves as feminists because they believed it was about equality (lie, read what a 3rd world teenaged girl has to say) and having a choice (lie, read what Simone de Beauvoir has to say) and a bit later Madgalene complained about me being an ass to her because I made fun of her missing Sunday mass and missing Tuesday mass at least once and because she didn’t submit a discussion post once and I mocked her with the “2 discussion posts comment” I should have called her a dummyed liarslave. I went down to the chapel and met Madgalus’ fiancée as she recognized me making a video for her birthday. The other people there included: Amethyst, Sydney, Lewis, Angela’s friend and her friend, Sixes and his friend, Kalifornia, Oriang, Agaw, Nash, Telemachus, Sideburns, Morgado, Swifte, Markus, the Honduran, Jade. I volunteered to do the readings as I was very well dressed, which consisted of Acts 16:22-34:
☛22 The crowd joined in attacking them; and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.
☛23 And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
☛24 Having received this charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
☛25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
☛26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and every one’s fetters were unfastened.
☛27 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
☛28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
☛29 And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,
☛30 and brought them out and said, “Men, what must I do to be saved?”
☛31And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
☛32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.
☛33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family. 34Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.
And then Psalms 138:1-3, 7-8:
☛1 I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise;
☛2 I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.
☛3 On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.
☛7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me.
☛8 The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
The priest made a joke about me reading fast during the homily, I got the Eucharist near the start as I sat up front next to Elijah. Dinner was quite well and I sat with Amethyst to find out she’s from Mukwonago, Wisconsin and majors in accounting. The announcements said Lewis’ birthday was last Friday, I think his 19th birthday, but then I checked what I had written down and it said August 24th, 2007, actually it might that one guy who share’s Lewis’ first name. I left early and went to finish writing my draft almost and then polishing it into a working format. I basically completed it and then took a shower before heading to sleep.

Song of the Day: Superstar - The Carpenters (1971)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 13th, 2026: Only one class today. I woke up at 6:00am to put the polish on my final essay for religious studies. I had breakfast for cereal with coffee to go with. I uploaded my final and then took the bus to work. When I got in, I had to help this man with his computer being extremely slow. Kiana helped him a bit with trying to fix it but I couldn’t do anything by terminating programs with Task Manager. I talked to Seth M about it and he told me that he’d get a new computer by the end of the week. Seth M also assigned me this pretty hard to understand task even after multiple explanations. I worked on it and probably got it to his requirements. I got 4 sausages with those crackers from the meat store for lunch. When I was back in the other break room there was Tia and the younger Ukrainian woman working, Tia asked me about my graduation party and I decided to tell her where it was, the location, and the time. I then did some more work before taking the bus home at 1:00pm. I got in and instantly opened up my laptop to start watching episode 7 of The Boys’ final season. It was ok but had it’s flaws which probably means the last episode will be bad. I spent more time at home until I thought there would be a class at 4:00pm. I did get packed up and walked to my class. I got down in the large study hall to review for the final exam that was literally next week, I didn’t understand most of it and got some answers wrong and Dijkstra’s algorithm still confuses me. I went back home at 5:15pm to have mac and cheese in a cup for dinner. I then got packed for Eucharistic adoration and took the bus there. I got off and in to focus mostly on reading the Bible, I spotted Rose and her fiancé, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend, Kalifornia, Naomi, Gerrardo, Sixes and his friend, and who I thought was Peach. After skimming through my bible using a method where I open it roughly around the halfway mark, read the chapter I find, then open it halfway between that and the end of the book. I saw Peaches again sitting in her usual spot, but she was wearing a black veil instead of a blue one after we left and I tried calling out to her by whispering her name:
“Peach!”
I said, she didn’t answer.
“Peach!”
I tried again but she ignored me, or rather she was a different person, probably a different person. I walked all the way down to the new church we’re moving into as Father Aquinas needed some people for construction help. At 8:08pm on the walk there, I spotted this racoon on campus grounds:

I found them to be quite cute and they weren’t accustomed enough to come closer. I finally got to the church and spotted Markus’ brother sitting on the stone steps at 8:20pm, I took a picture of him from behind and texted it to him at 8:21pm. He got half-freaked out and half found it funny. Eventually Sideburns’ crush and this other guy came here as we were promised beer at the end. The priest came with his car and supplies, telling us that for the men’s task, we were to scrub the glue that held the trimming to the old church and we had 4 steps: spray the wall and floor with goo-gone, scrub it with the Mr Scrubber sponges, wipe it with a damp cloth soaked in hot water with a cap of Pine-Sol, and dry it off. I was in charge of the hot soapy water, but the water heater didn’t work. Sideburn’ crush was working upstairs with the priest on plywood in the chapel. The guy with us put on Morgan Wallen as we made slow progress, I had to wash my scrubber out many times due to the gunk. He told us a trick he found was to stick the dry rag on the wall and use it to find where the gunk is still present. Markus’ brother talked about the girl he’s seeing whom he wants to ask to be his girlfriend and that they should paint the walls in the chapel for more decoration. At 9:03pm Telemachus said in the center’s groupchat:
<We outside
<Can someone let us in?
And Markus’ brother did that, so now Telemachus and Urbino were doing work elsewhere. I said I was to leave at roughly 10:00pm but that was coincidentally when they were winding down despite only getting 2 and a half rooms done. I got a New Glarus Pale Ale and Sideburn’ crush didn’t know I was over 21. I walked home past Telemachus and Markus’ brother throwing out trash. I got in and took a shower while drinking my beer, r/showerbeers anybody? I finally went to sleep very late at like 11:37pm.

Song of the Day: Last Night - Morgan Wallen (2023)

 

[CX2]

trash panda lol

 

[⸻⸻⸻]

May 13th, 2026: Only one class today. I woke up at 6:00am to put the polish on my final essay for religious studies. I had breakfast for cereal with coffee to go with. I uploaded my final and then took the bus to work. When I got in, I had to help this man with his computer being extremely slow. Kiana helped him a bit with trying to fix it but I couldn’t do anything by terminating programs with Task Manager. I talked to Seth M about it and he told me that he’d get a new computer by the end of the week. Seth M also assigned me this pretty hard to understand task even after multiple explanations. I worked on it and probably got it to his requirements. I got 4 sausages with those crackers from the meat store for lunch. When I was back in the other break room there was Tia and the younger Ukrainian woman working, Tia asked me about my graduation party and I decided to tell her where it was, the location, and the time. I then did some more work before taking the bus home at 1:00pm. I got in and instantly opened up my laptop to start watching episode 7 of The Boys’ final season. It was ok but had it’s flaws which probably means the last episode will be bad. I spent more time at home until I thought there would be a class at 4:00pm. I did get packed up and walked to my class. I got down in the large study hall to review for the final exam that was literally next week, I didn’t understand most of it and got some answers wrong and Dijkstra’s algorithm still confuses me. I went back home at 5:15pm to have mac and cheese in a cup for dinner. I then got packed for Eucharistic adoration and took the bus there. I got off and in to focus mostly on reading the Bible, I spotted Rose and her fiancé, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend, Kalifornia, Naomi, Gerrardo, Sixes and his friend, and who I thought was Peach. After skimming through my bible using a method where I open it roughly around the halfway mark, read the chapter I find, then open it halfway between that and the end of the book. I saw Peaches again sitting in her usual spot, but she was wearing a black veil instead of a blue one after we left and I tried calling out to her by whispering her name:
“Peach!”
I said, she didn’t answer.
“Peach!”
I tried again but she ignored me, or rather she was a different person, probably a different person. I walked all the way down to the new church we’re moving into as Father Aquinas needed some people for construction help. At 8:08pm on the walk there, I spotted this racoon on campus grounds:
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I found them to be quite cute and they weren’t accustomed enough to come closer. I finally got to the church and spotted Markus’ brother sitting on the stone steps at 8:20pm, I took a picture of him from behind and texted it to him at 8:21pm. He got half-freaked out and half found it funny. Eventually Sideburns’ crush and this other guy came here as we were promised beer at the end. The priest came with his car and supplies, telling us that for the men’s task, we were to scrub the glue that held the trimming to the old church and we had 4 steps: spray the wall and floor with goo-gone, scrub it with the Mr Scrubber sponges, wipe it with a damp cloth soaked in hot water with a cap of Pine-Sol, and dry it off. I was in charge of the hot soapy water, but the water heater didn’t work. Sideburn’ crush was working upstairs with the priest on plywood in the chapel. The guy with us put on Morgan Wallen as we made slow progress, I had to wash my scrubber out many times due to the gunk. He told us a trick he found was to stick the dry rag on the wall and use it to find where the gunk is still present. Markus’ brother talked about the girl he’s seeing whom he wants to ask to be his girlfriend and that they should paint the walls in the chapel for more decoration. At 9:03pm Telemachus said in the center’s groupchat:
<We outside
<Can someone let us in?
And Markus’ brother did that, so now Telemachus and Urbino were doing work elsewhere. I said I was to leave at roughly 10:00pm but that was coincidentally when they were winding down despite only getting 2 and a half rooms done. I got a New Glarus Pale Ale and Sideburn’ crush didn’t know I was over 21. I walked home past Telemachus and Markus’ brother throwing out trash. I got in and took a shower while drinking my beer, r/showerbeers anybody? I finally went to sleep very late at like 11:37pm.

Song of the Day: Last Night - Morgan Wallen (2023)

>taking a shower while drinking beer

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

>taking a shower while drinking beer

Yeah, and you don’t?

 

[⸻⸻⸻]

Yeah, and you don’t?

nope

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

nope

Are you even 21?

 

[⸻⸻⸻]

Are you even 21?

17

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

17

Bruh…

 

[CX2]

17

do it anyways

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 14th, 2026: No more actual classes. I had 3 eggs for breakfast and went to work. In work I overheard talking between Edgar and Staples with Staples mentioning doing something with her sister. Also my coworkers talked about Gasabo’s birthday being tomorrow. I continued to program for a while as I suffered working near Nailisi. I did a bit of tech support before having the Indian lady come over at 9:28am to ask if I got her email from 9:25am about making an ID for a new intern by 9:40am. I completed it ahead of schedule and I’m pretty sure the heading to lunch at 12:00pm. For lunch I had 4 white sausages plus crackers that I didn’t eat. When I got back in, I offered the crackers I had to Staples but she refused yet thanked me for them. I left at 1:00pm to go home at the same time that James the Greater was there, I was on my phone for a while except for when I got up to study. Titania moved back into her former apartment I played some Fire Emblem Awakening a bit before deciding to head to the grocery store. I bought off brand Dr Pepper, ice cream, milk, paper towels, and some snacks before going to the bus, on the way there as I was putting my stuff down, this irresponsible Black woman riding her bike shouted:
“Excuse me!”
Too late and made me drop my stuff, including my soda 12-pack. I got on the bus shortly afterwards but was held up by an Indian woman who took her shopping cart all the way to the curb and got on the bus. A real woman sat near me so I had to move and noticed the soda box leaking. I got off and was delayed by holding open the door for the 2nd floor guy and he thanked me. I got in and then changed into more casual clothes. I went over to the Catholic center to study with the others but at 3:17pm I got a message from Thing Alpha:
<Hi gemersonnn im excited to see you graduate! I will probably be skipping mass because I dont really vibe with church but will be at the brunch and ceremony (if we have tickets) im excited to see [city] ive never walked around there
Wow, if you told me this earlier I wouldn’t have gave you a ticket. I got in and it was noticeably hot inside. Magdalus was cooking with Jade and I went to sit down. Nash then decided to start calling me by my second name:
“Hey Gemerson-Palmer, is it ok to call you Palmer?”
I got a little pissed:
“Absolutely not!”
I said to him, Oriang and this other woman couldn’t stop laughing, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend was there and Sixes’ friend was watching a football game. I was irritated. Nash went back and said:
“Hey Palmer.”
I couldn’t tolerate him:
“I fucking told you not to call me that.”
Nobody noticed but I left. I got dressed and had a cup of mac and cheese before taking the bus to a dinner night for those who volunteered for the Catholic center, I got there early and walked around a bit until heading in later. Angela’s friend’s friend came here and then more people, including Telemachus, Mahdi, Markus, Markus’ brother, Sixes, Sixes’ friend, Oriang, Morgado, Luigi, Casta and her husband, the Honduran, Alley, Nash, Lewis and his ex-girlfriend, and some others. We had dinner and found out Sixes’ friend’s birthday is May 23rd, Casta’s husband’s birthday was May 10th, he is 23 years old while Casta is 24. Casta’s husband told me about Catholicjobs.com, I looked on there and found one that fits me, pays like $35 an hour to be completely remote and only requires 0-2 years of experience. There were fire sparklers that we lit and Oriang, Morgado, and Lewis’ ex-girlfriend did a fake wizard duel for a photo op. I got some pictures taken by Casta and there is some mention of Casta having kids. The Honduran brought this gold-colored spray-painted laurel wreath that he wore and gave to us, I took some pictures with it on and gave it to others yet Casta refused due to how many heads it’s been on. I noticed Lewis often standing near his ex-girlfriend yet I didn’t say anything about it. I left at like 8:30pm and went home, I took a shower, and then went to sleep.

Song of the Day: El Tiburón - Proyecto Uno (2022)

 

[Apeson]

noob