#im also hooing to switch to an ipod

[hillbillyoracle]

I've been enjoying the 20+ year old portable DVD player I found at my parents' place. But it was really struggling and flat out wouldn't let me finish some movies. So we sprung for this combination DVD/BluRay player and I've already watched 3 movies in it.

It got me thinking about why I have been gravitating toward unitaskers (DVD player) over multitaskers (laptop, phone). I think it's because for every use you add to an object, you add friction to using any individual use case.

If I want to watch a DVD on this player, I just put it in and press play.

If I want to do it on my laptop, I need to connect an external drive, not get distracted by anything else on my laptop, put in the DVD, select the media player, press play, and resist the temptation to do anything else on the laptop for the run time of the film.

And I know there are people who would scoff at that being that difficult and I mean I get it, but willpower is limited and environmental design uses up none of it.

So all hail the unitaskers.

[oscquinn-archive]

Aight bet!!!

I present to you, a timeline of mags falling in love with her friend from elementary school.

The first time she really talked to me was in 4th grade when I was sitting alone at recess bc I only had one friend and she was sick so I was being an Angsty 10yr old w/ my stories about a girl named anya whose parents had abandoned her lmao and she was just really nice to me!! She very kindly made me get up and come play with her and a few of her friends, and I actually had a lot of fun!

Fast forward like half a year, we do All County Chorus together. I switch spots with her in the height line to I can stand next to my (at the time) best/only "friend." Im gonna be honest, I really regret that because the girl I thought was my Best Friend is someone I dont even speak to anymore, and who would be apalled if she knew I was bi. I really wish I had spent more time developing a friendship with Kayla in the early years of knowing her, cause maybe then we'd be closer now than we are.

Now, fast forward again to spring of 6th grade when I am the kid transferring into chorus halfway through the year. Kayla was super nice to me, taking the time to explain how things worked in that class when the teacher and older kids wouldn't. That concert I stood next to her :')

When we started 7th grade, we were super excited to find out we had all of our classes together, with the exception of Band, which I was taking and she was not. We became suoer close, all we ever did was talk about Hamilton and Percy Jackson, and we helped each other with our homework! She was so sweet, and I remember that j loved to boop her nose bc it was squishy and cute. Idk how to explain it, but she was like, my biggest supporter even tho I didnt consider her my Best Friend. We wrote a lot of PJO fanfic together :D

Now to eighth grade, which is (sadly) towards the end of my friendship with her :( We only had one class together (chorus, where she would cover for me while I read newsies and DEH fanfics) but I would meet up with her and a few other friends every morning in the library to "work on schoolwork" aka: me and like four friends writing a bigass self insert pjo/hoo fanfic, and in the afternoons in the gym as we waited to be picked up. She refused to swear, but talked about getting us matching bracelets that said "baddest bitches" except she would say "baddest female dogs"which was unfairly adorable. This was around the time I was having my sexuality awakening, and this is when I developed the crush. The sweetest thing she ever did for me was when we were doing middle school All County Chorus and the fic that I had loaded on my iPod disappeared, and she just took it from me, connected me to her hotspot, and let me download a couple fics to read :D

Sadly, at the end of eighth grade I had to transfer to a different high school. Ive seen her exactly three times since then:

In october 2018 when I went to the hoco game of the school we were supposed to go to (turns out she had also transferred to a different school)

In February 2019 when she came to see me in a local production of Newsies

In March 2019 when I went to her Quinceñara

And honestly I just miss her a lot. She's really cute and funny and an overall great person to be around

I MISS THIS GIRL I USED TO HAVE THE HUGEST CRUGH ON HHHHSHHDHSJSHHSJS WHO WANTS TO HEAR ME RANT ABT HER