{"id":597,"date":"2024-10-06T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longstoriesshort.blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-10-06T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:21:09","slug":"we-have-to-make-this-moment-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longstoriesshort.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/we-have-to-make-this-moment-last\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have to Make This Moment Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A\/N: I’ve decided to write these on Saturdays and publish them on Sundays. I can write these pretty quickly, but posting them is a whole other thing. You know how it is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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my professor’s Benjamin Franklin action figure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“It’s Ben Franklin with the key and the kite. You see it right?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!! I love October. I love spooky season. I love fall vibes. I love Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather is scaring me. Hopefully, it gets cold. It\u2019s a strange, horrible thing to say, but I\u2019d rather have an ice age than a \u2026 hot age? Hold on, I need to look this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay, so. I have no idea how ice ages work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently, the times when the earth is covered by large ice sheets are called glacial periods and the times when the earth isn\u2019t covered by large ice sheets are called interglacial periods\u2014both are part of an ice age<\/a>. We are currently in an interglacial period, or epoch, called the Holocene<\/a> (a beautiful name for a baby), which began about 11,700 years ago, at the end of the last glacial period, the Pleistocene (twins?!). Both the Holocene and Pleistocene are part of the Quaternary Period, which is the third and current period of the Cenozoic Era, AKA our era!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people (do not ask me who) claimed that we left the Holocene and are now in the Anthropocene<\/a>\u2014a geological epoch in which human activity has a significant impact on the climate and environment. However, the International Union of Geological Sciences have voted against using this term as an official unit of geological time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guys, okay, wait. This is actually fascinating to me, and somewhat comforting?? We\u2019re going down this rabbit hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oop. Never mind, it stopped being comforting. Wow, what a quick turnaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m getting conflicting information about when the next glacial period will begin, but Wikipedia says at least 50,000 years. Scientists are saying that the global warming caused by human-emitted greenhouse gasses is so damn strong that the next glacial period is probably delayed, and that a Grand Solar Minimum<\/a> (I don\u2019t know) won\u2019t even have a cooling effect on the earth because of how damn strong it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\u2019m hearing is, we\u2019re not getting that ice age\u2014that is, glacial period\u2014anytime soon. Though, Miss Holocene is quite unstable currently, so we may get freezing temperatures at some random point(s). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, geological scientists are believing that we\u2019re currently amidst the sixth mass extinction<\/a>. It\u2019s titled the Holocene extinction, or the Anthropocene extinction. I think you can take a guess as to what\u2019s the main driving factor of it. El oh el.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeesh, that is a depressing way to end my ice age report. It\u2019s like walking through the evolution exhibit at the Field Museum where it ends with telling you how many species went extinct that day. I apologize for being a bit of a downer, but this has been on my mind a whole lot recently, and this blog is meant to be a space for the stuff that\u2019s been on my mind a whole lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how I see it: We have to make this moment last, that\u2019s plenty. See, now, y\u2019all get me. You get how the Hamilton<\/em> I was quoting last week was actually so on base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen, I don\u2019t want global warming just as much as the next guy. I\u2019m so incredibly fearful of it, and it makes me so incredibly depressed. What saddens me, and enrages me, and stresses me the most is that I can\u2019t really do anything about it. I can make efforts to go green. I can recycle, thrift, and wear environmentally safe sunscreen when I swim in the ocean, but I\u2019m currently left asking the question of what else can I do? Because this doesn’t seem to be enough. And the answer to that is seeming like\u2026 Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not a political leader, or a big celebrity, or a billionaire, nor do I want to be, so how can I make this huge change that I so desperately want to make? I don\u2019t know. Is it even possible? It doesn\u2019t seem like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now what? If we truly are in the end times as I believe we are and there\u2019s nothing I can do about it, what\u2019s the next move? I\u2019m beginning to think that it\u2019s becoming selfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brain won\u2019t shut up. I need to learn how to make it shut up. We\u2019re learning about Daoism in my religion class, and it\u2019s got some pretty interesting ideas as to how to make it do so. It involves not doing anything. Rather, it involves responding, or acting without any intentional controlling behaviors. Truthfully, I\u2019m a bit confused about it all, but I\u2019m pretty sure accepting change, both positive and negative, is a big part of it. My professor said that the characters who are praised within Zhuangzi<\/em> (religious text) are the ones who don\u2019t really sweat stuff, and they don\u2019t sweat stuff by going, \u201cWell, this is happening now.\u201d This is the religion where yin and yang derive from, along with, \u201cGo with the flow,\u201d by the way, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it\u2019s time that I just go, \u201cWell, the world is ending. Anyways\u2026\u201d What do those ellipses lead to? I\u2019m not too sure, but maybe they\u2019re leading to simply making my personal life better. That\u2019s where selfishness comes into play. Maybe I oughta focus on making today a good day for me, instead of wondering if everybody be alive and well in 20 years. This seems like an extremely dangerous way to live, but what if it\u2019s the only way I can live happily?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shit. I wonder if dinosaurs ever felt existential dread. Maybe they did when the asteroid first hit, but then they probably moved on to focusing on survival. I wonder if it\u2019s time I try doing the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways. That\u2019s enough of that. Bitches will do an impromptu research report on ice ages before doing homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten my nerves down enough to actually, occasionally enjoy scary movies, so I\u2019m hoping to watch a couple this month. I have A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> (1984) and The Thing <\/em>(1984) on my list (apparently 1984 is calling me), also the X<\/em> trilogy if I can find it for free somewhere. I\u2019m not too sure if these are considered scary movies, but I may also watch The Lighthouse<\/em> (2019), The Shining<\/em> (1980), and Sixth Sense<\/em> (1999). By the way, if any of you say, \u201cYou haven\u2019t seen [movie]?!\u201d I\u2019m sending you evil thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll probably also rewatch my favorites, Scream <\/em>(1996) and It: Chapter Two<\/em> (2019). If you guys haven\u2019t seen the original Scream<\/em>, you just gotta. That movie changed me for good. So did It: Chapter Two<\/em>, but you don\u2019t have to watch that one. I can\u2019t even get into why I\u2019m attached to that movie, I just am. Stockholm syndrome or something. Scream<\/em> on the other hand is so funny and bloody\u2014it\u2019s perfect. Also, slightly horny. As any good slasher movie should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Halloween movie recommended for y\u2019all (though it’s not actually a Halloween move… question mark?): Lisa Frankenstein<\/em> (2024). To me, it\u2019s Scream<\/em> levels of iconic, if not, just a pinch below. Funny, bloody, horny, and goth! You love to see it. Also, so romantic for those with eyes to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to make the most out of this month. I\u2019m telling you, we have to make this moment last, dude. You know, the next lyric is, \u201cScratch that. This is not the moment, it\u2019s the movement,\u201d which changes that line, but, you know, I don\u2019t feel like getting into that right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holy shit, wait a minute. Am I Alexander Hamilton? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Alexander Hamilton, that is. Why do you write like you’re running out of time?… Why do you always say what you believe?… If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?… Young, scrappy and hungry… <\/em>Oh dear. Well, if I’m LMM’s Hamilton, I’m indirectly Lewis Hamilton, so that’s nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sort of heavily messed up my experiment. Besides going on Pinterest during my suite week, I\u2019ve been watching YouTube during all of this week. Ratas! Mainly because I finished season five of House<\/em>, needed a palette cleanser before the next one, and had no other show lined up. Oopsies. Going into this next month, I\u2019m going to try to carry on with my experiment. I\u2019m considering moving my Monster High stuff to my photos or to another widget app, so I can delete Pinterest off my phone. I clearly have a ton of stuff to watch for my next palette cleanser, so I don\u2019t think I need to worry too much about staying off the Tube. I keep forgetting to update my Instagram with my high school photos, but I\u2019ll post those soon, so I can forget about it completely. Well\u2026 partially\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m one of the social media managers for my job. I\u2019m specifically the admin for the Instagram and Facebook accounts, though that just means I\u2019m in charge of posting on those apps\u2014the other manager and I make the posts together. So much for trying to stay off Instagram! No, but going on it for work is different. It may even help me release my social media creativities; it may appease my Instagram story yearning, who knows? If I end up becoming TikTok famous, don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got my hair done today! New color, new me. Honestly, it was a bit stressful. Chaotic, even. Basically, I wanted to get bright red for Halloween, but then my hairdresser said no can do, color theory will make the red muddier than what I want. She suggested doing white instead. I came around to the new idea quite quickly as I figured it would be very Frankie Stein-esque. Plus, there\u2019s two girls in one of my classes who already have red hair, and I can\u2019t be the third. Again, that individuality complex I\u2019m refusing to address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hair appointment started with her bleaching my hair. I sat under that damn heater for agessss. She put it on the highest setting, too. My scalp was burning. Then, she said that we couldn\u2019t do white. If I cooked for any longer, my hair would break off! So, we had to switch to red. I was a bit peeved. As you may have guessed based on my ice age report, I am not so good with change, especially when it happens so abruptly, but the color turned out wonderful, so all is well. Perhaps this will serve as exposure therapy to get over the complex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I chose that tealish color I had before because of Godzilla: Minus One<\/em> (2023); I am obsessed with that movie and Godzilla. I love you, Godzilla. Now, the red is giving The Batman<\/em> (2022) (another Halloween classic, technically). What a fantastic coincidence! From one essential Luna movie to the next. It also gives a bit of Shin Godzilla<\/em> (2016), so from one Godzilla to the next, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love my linguistics class. Not only is the content so interesting (which I might get more into some other day), but my classmates are quite cool as well. Here\u2019s an example as to why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before class one day, a person I sit near said this, when he opened up his laptop, \u201cOh, my Pinterest is up. That\u2019s embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, someone else said this, \u201cDude, in my other class I had a fucking notes app poem opened.\u201d We laughed. She continued, \u201cAnd we were doing partner work, switching laptops, so my partner saw it.\u201d We laughed more. \u201cHe read the title, and said, \u2018I don\u2019t get it.\u2019\u201d We were all doubling over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So sorry to her, but that is so hilarious. Here’s your reminder to close your tabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alright. F1 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my YouTube relapse this week, I\u2019ve been watching a lot of F1 related content. I love it too much. For real. What a horrible thing for me to like, too. After my whole fucking spiel about being terrified of global warming, I still have the audacity to be obsessed with fucking Sport that Kills the Planet MajorlyTM. Dear lord. I am a mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still think that Max Verstappen will win the WDC, but it is so<\/em> possible that Lando Norris may win. Frankly, I don\u2019t want him to. I don\u2019t want Verstappen to win either due to Abu Dhabi 2021. I shan\u2019t get into Abu Dhabi 2021 right now, but just know that I hold grudges. An elephant never fucking forgets, bitch. You mess with the wolf, you mess with the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had to choose between Verstappen or Norris, I\u2019m flipping a coin. It\u2019s a lose-lose for me. Actually, I might root for Verstappen by a hair literally only because Norris is just pissing me off, man. And I do not<\/em> want to see what his fans will be like if he wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 season is going to be so insane. At least four rookies, ages 18 to 22; it\u2019s possibly the last season for a couple older drivers; a bunch of drivers and staff are switching teams; and it’s the last season before the greener regulations get put into place. Drama is bound to commence. If there was ever a time to get into F1, now might be it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a deranged post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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