One of my switch joycons drifts uncontrollably and has become entirely unmanageable (used to be able to trick it into stopping drifting if I flicked it down, but no more!), so I sent it in for repair this morning. ... This Very First World Problem means no Stardew for up to three weeks (up to 2 for repair + 1-ish for shipping).

Luckily, I still have other gameboys and Pokemon games, so all is well. Replaying the Alola one because I actually really loved its structure.

Aww... :c I'm glad you have other options, but that stinks. You don't have a PC version of the game, do you?

I do not! It's okay, I'll survive. There's at least one Pokemon I own but got mega lost in where I was supposed to go next for the story, and I could definitely stand to go back and play that one for real this time.

oh man, I know that party. I've been to that party several times.

Coworker just wandered out of his office and down the hall singing the Micky Mouse song under his breath. "M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E, Micky Mouse... Micky Mouse..." and I'm pretty sure I had an out of body experience and I've lost my eyebrows in my hair hearing that again in such an odd context as my office hallway.

...holy shit. That's. Wow.

drive by nostalgia-ing

Did a thing in my office today.... Had a few students add stars already!

Awwww... What a great idea! Maybe I'll teach myself to do that and set myself up a jar.

Been doing origami on and off since 2007 and honestly, it's so calming.
Here's some Puff Star instructions

And the Star Jar tag I made:

♡ ty bb!

Got my joycon back today - or rather, was gratified to see that the receipt inside said "Service Rendered: Part Replacement." I like to think they tested it and went, "Shit, man, this sure does 'drift abominably' like the repair request says!"

It was in the "in service" status less than 28 hours.

Yaaaay!!

Way back on March 13th, 2020, 1 week before lockdowns, I introduced the star jar and some origami to my office for stressed students. Those students are graduating next week. One of those whom I taught to make the little puff stars kept going with origami after she went into clinical rotations this last year.

The university banned individual programs hosting their own hooding ceremonies in December of 2019, but it didn't matter much for the Class of 2020 since we couldn't hold graduation last year anyway, but this year will be starting our new graduation tradition of bestowing long white coats

(students wear short white coats, graduates get long ones), and we'll be stuffing their coat pockets with handwritten notes. I wrote a note to that one student on shiny origami paper and folded it for her. Maybe she'll open it and find the words of encouragement inside, maybe not. Doesn't matter.

She'll know what it means - just like I told her in March: Sometimes things go wrong in life and you just need a little control over something. This you have control over, and you can make it beautiful in the midst of your hard moments.

;0; That is so sweet, Kit!