I have the reading week off, but I also live at my parents house. Which means my parents like to eat up all of my free time, I also have these reports and a few exams coming up in the weeks ahead.

Is this what being an adult is like?

I have the week off so there isn’t really much that I am doing other than cleaning my living space, trying to find some food here and there.

Last Sunday, I had missed the weekly report, because I had to study for an Analytical chemistry exam. And I passed that exam, although I didn’t get an A (expected). I figure that’s okay it’s only worth 25% and I am getting A’s everywhere else.

I just need to focus and get my stuff together, and possibly catch up. Although I have weekly reports due, which would be hectic but they allowed use to use generative AI to write this reports. So I am in the clear for that, as long as I show up, follow the lab rules and conduct the experiment, recording my results and experimental errors, then report those, I should be moving along smoothly.

This is supposed to be a week of relaxation, but I have 3 labs to prepare for next week, an exam on soil science next Friday, I have my kitchen and laundry room to organize, I want to write about the movies that I saw this past Tuesday, and I am still migrating my life to my new iPhone15 from my Android Samsung Galaxy 23.

I love Android and PC, but talking with an AI chat-bot and getting all the facts, Apple seemed like a better product to transfer to. I already do most of my note-taking and schoolwork on my MacBook and iPad air (damn you Justin Sung, I can’t learn any other way now). I am going to get back into photography as well, I just have this Canon DSLR just sitting here.

This past Tuesday I saw three films, Disclose Day, Obsession, and Backrooms. Disclosure day was a bit like Arrival, starring Amy Adams (the movie Night Bitch was a nice break from a usual Hollywood production). Did you know that Amy Adams was in the show The Office? She was Jim Halpert’s girlfriend before he realized that he was in love with the office receptionist, Pam Beesly.

Amy Adam’s looks really good, almost too good.

Disclosure day was, an alien movie. It was so well shot, every scene was pristine. It was a good movie, not a great movie, but a great looking and well made movie. That was what I started my Tuesday movie marathon at Cineplex with, then I had a kids combo because I can’t eat all of a popcorn by myself, then I saw the movie Obsession.

It was about a guy, who had one wish, and he wished for a girl to love him more than anything else in the world. It was a horror movie, to me it was about what happens when you force someone to love you. I enjoyed it, although that type of horror (like the horror in the movie Heredity always freaks me out, or Midsommer).

After that movie, I went to a local Moxies restaurant, had a cheese burger, and then saw what would be the best movie that I would see that day (and probably the past few months). I saw the movie Backrooms. The movie was good not because of the acting, not because of the characters, but because of the story. This movie is based in several psychological and philosophical theories, such as Liminal Theory, Kenophobia and Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny; alternatively, the movie also touches on various philosophical principles such as “Simulacra” and Simulation, Hauntology (the idea that the present is haunted by ghosts of lost futures and past eras) and even taps into Cosmic Horror, the idea that humanity is rather insignificant in the vastness that is the universe.

One of the most profound elements that I found was how the movie uses the environment to instill horror. It plays on your memory, your expectations, which directly ties to Albert Camus and “Absurdism”, it’s an unsettling kind of horror that operates on the logic that we as humans can’t logically decode. It’s the feeling of indifference that the environment doesn’t hate you, it just doesn’t care if you exist.

I find the whole cosmic horror idea kinda of dull, it’s true that we may not matter to the big picture, but we should at least matter to our selves, and the things and people we care about should matter to us. That’s philosophy though, a poor excuse to be cruel and selfish.

Next Week.

Sunday I will be writing my weekly report, I am planning on seeing another movie this Saturday, it’s a Gothic horror movie that I thought was at last years Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s a completely new addition.

I also have some experimental observations that I want document, like what causes an overripe pineapple to turn pink? What are the different types of bacteria that can be growing on it. I also am getting into more food stuff, because I do my own grocery shopping and cooking (most of the time), and I am going to be turning 40.

I handed in a research proposal for the Birkdale Ravine, that upon approval, this will probably take up the majority of my time. That being said, there is a lot of talks about ticks, and I am going to have to get a partner to not only help me with the project, but assist me with making sure I am not bitten or latched on to.

Talk to you Sunday! I also want to write a thorough review on what I took certain elements of the movie “Backrooms” as, and talk about some of these theories. I highly suggest you watch this movie, it just made you feel so….

Weird.