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Cover: Qingyun
There’s been quite a lot going on these past few months, so I kept putting off writing the monthly journal brain dump. Taking advantage of the 3 days off for National Day, I guess I’ll write it down.
July
After final exams, school gave us a few days off, and then it was back to school for the first phase of summer makeup classes...
During that time we moved to the old campus teaching building where past senior classes were, right next to the lake, which they called “good feng shui.” No idea whether the feng shui is good, but there were definitely a lot of mosquitoes.
The classroom conditions were way worse than at the new campus before: projector + whiteboard, resolution only 1024*768, and up close it was full of giant pixels.
The toilet was one long communal trough, and quite a few stall locks were broken; to lock a stall you had to stick a pen refill in.
The first phase of makeup classes was originally supposed to run until August 1, but in the last few days there was a COVID outbreak nearby, so it ended a few days early.
August
We had ten-plus days off, then came the second phase of makeup classes. The school forced all students to board, saying it was a pandemic prevention requirement from above, even though nearby schools didn’t force boarding.
Since wearing OK lenses every night isn’t very convenient, I tried to apply not to board, but it wasn’t approved... So I’d just bring some purified water and tough it out.
Since boarding would be too boring, I bought a FiiO M6 so I could listen to music, read novels, chat on QQ, etc. at night.
The dorm was also long overdue for repairs. In just the 12 days I boarded, there were this many annoying problems:
- Faucet wouldn’t close tight * 2
- Main valve burst * 1
- Water cut off while doing laundry * 1
- Hot water cut off * 1
Luckily the dorm auntie was pretty nice and helped solve everything.
When the main valve burst, water surged up to the ceiling and came down like rain, soaking all my clothes. It almost made me give up...
Well, I made it through 12 days anyway...
September
After makeup classes, we didn’t get many days off before school started again. Then right away we had the Jin Taiyang joint exam. It felt super watered down—you could even buy leaked original papers online; 80 yuan could get you comprehensive science + English... In the end I did pretty average.
The epicenter of the September 16 Luzhou earthquake was fairly close to us, and the shaking felt even stronger than the 2008 Wenchuan one... It was at 4 a.m., pouring rain, and I was half-asleep when my mom shook me awake and pulled me into the bathroom. Pretty scary—so much so that I didn’t dare sleep the next night.
I found time to write a script for writing tags and cover art to voice works on DLsite. When I ran it on the mechanical drive where I store ASMR, it got stuck, and that’s when I found out the drive had bad sectors. I swapped in a Seagate surveillance drive (balance–).
Soldered my first working headphone cable
The “even though I used the cheapest connectors, it still cost more than the wire itself” series, under 50 yuan total.
So Busy
There’s really been a lot going on lately, one exam after another.
Everyone’s working hard. Most day students applied for evening self-study until 10:50, but I can’t handle it, so I didn’t apply. No idea how much longer I can keep scraping by like this...
There’s another joint exam in mid-October, and the comprehensive science part covers everything, but I haven’t finished reviewing...
That’s about it. For now I’ll just rest properly for 3 days and worry about the future later.