day 6: halfway and halfway and not halfway...

it's day 6 and i am halfway through my project and halfway through my project and NOT halfway through my project. i'll get into the nitty gritty of what that means exactly down in my thoughts from day 6!

• for some reason nearly every single clock in every single place i've stayed has been wildly inaccurate. that lead to me thinking that i'd woken up at 4:15 AM and was pretty distressed that i couldn't fall back asleep....before i checked my phone and realized it was 6:30. a much more respectable hour!
• some of you may have been wondering about the resolution of my airbnb drama from yesterday - never fear! when it became pretty clear that my host wasn't going to have the place ready until well after 7 PM, my parents gave me a micro grant to book a nearby hotel. i even got to see my dad and my dog for a little bit since they were coincidentally in the area i was stranded! a nice night overall.
• only complaint was that there WAS NO FREE BREAKFAST probably due to the pandemic???? but they had a little area open where you could PAY EXTRA for very bad breakfast. i got a tea before i realized and had to "charge it to my room" to disguise the fact that i'd assumed it would be included. lol whoops!
• a gorgeous gorgeous day for walking, huh? a lot of people were kind of worried about me doing this in april but i have to say, i think doing it in the summer would have been a tiny piece of hell. it's not too hot, but as i walk - especially on a gorgeous day like today! i get sweaty fast! 
• only one interview today and it was great! i am obviously enjoying speaking with everyone and hearing about what they do to make long island a better place, but i also feel like i'm learning a lot about video and content creation! i won't say it's all going exactly perfectly - once in awhile i'll set up a wonky frame or forget to account for the fact that someone may gesture or lean - but for a first effort, i'm enjoying it immensely! i'm also meeting a lot of teams and coworkers and getting to explore some pretty cool new places!
• took an accidental detour on my way to my airbnb for the night and ended up (somehow????) on something a bit like a wooded trail! for a moment i REALLY felt like i was backpacking. i had some vague funny thoughts like "is this how people feel on the adirondack trail???" (which obviously: no) but it was nice to get off pavement and into nature, even for a mile or so!
• speaking of mileage - today was a light day, which was awesome! tomorrow is pretty light as well - i've got two interviews but luckily the in-between seems ok. we had to do some last minute location scrambling due to unexpected covid situations, but that's the reality of the times! i'm looking forward to a good rest tonight, and a full day tomorrow!
• last and perhaps most notably: there is a cat at the airbnb i'm staying in tonight! i really REALLY wanted it to come sit with me, so i sat on the floor and pretended not to be interested in it until it did! it's a super cute cat and very funny - i was worried that i might be too stinky to make friends, but then i looked over and it had SHOVED ITS ENTIRE FACT INTO MY SNEAKER. i was like, "wow your constitution must be STRONG, little cat!"

okay! time for stretching, snacks, and probably watching some run bts episodes. i listened to the new psy song that suga produced like 2,700 times this morning. what a bop.