October 7, 2021 Emergency Life Update: i'm still not ready to graduate -_-*

*intentional bad grammar

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I was recently informed that I still have to pass 2 courses to graduate. One of those courses, strangely, hasn't been offered for years, so, in a best-case scenario, I'll graduate...by 2022. -_-

As for my planned video last Sunday, October 3, 2021, I encountered unexpected crashes, even when playing vanilla Minecraft with no other programs open and after a clean reinstallation. It's not clear what the cause(s) of the crashes is/are, but I don't think I broke my PC--I can still play Genshin Impact just fine even with Google Chrome open.

Combined with my weekly schedule being almost entirely composed of store work (we're slowly but surely recovering sales after bringing back 2 of our most popular products which were wiped out before by the pandemic), English tutoring, and sleeping, I have little time for myself; in other words, I'm just going through every day while inhaling copium.

(My parents hate the copium meme because of the opium part of the name potentially getting me in trouble with the law. I think they shouldn't be worried because copium, as well as hopium, are well-known memes in US politics, as well as competitive gaming and Genshin Impact.)

Additionally, I have a hard time sleeping because my younger brother has Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), sometimes in the early morning when I'm still asleep. He has to make responses similar to the "Sir, yes, sir!" heard in Full Metal Jacket, then, after class, he banters with his fellow recruits with laughter like one would hear in a high school/college party, along with an occasional and random "Sir, yes, sir!" making me think his "casual" chat is being moderated by a drill sergeant.

He has to do this ROTC stuff in the same bedroom I sleep in due to technical limitations. I can't sleep elsewhere because either it's uncomfortable, it's dirty, or it's the parents' room--I toss and turn when I sleep which makes the bedsheet extra messy. Also, because of the tiny size of our house, I can hear my brother in all his booming loudness.

It's a necessary sacrifice I must make so my brother can serve his country, however, so I tolerate it. I just hope this ROTC thing won't last for more than 1 semester.

Anyway, classes start on October 11, so it's back to me being offline for 3 months to focus on my studies.