Would love to split my time between physics research and hobby botany/native plant restoration efforts. Would happily do both for free if I could. Damn capitalism

There used to be a small icecream chain in SoCal called HugLife. Best icecream I'd ever had, vegan or otherwise. Incredible, creative flavors (matcha cookies & cream, earl grey, thai tea, etc.), creamy, incredible. Whenever I visited the OC to see friends and family, I would go at least 2 or 3 times, even getting noticed once hitting 2 locations in one day. I finally moved to the area, tried the icecream again, completely awful, but I figured it was a bad batch. Come back a couple weeks later, and they tell me it was this location's last day, icecream is once again bad. Figure they were downscaling, so I went to their last remaining location in Long Beach, and it was still bad. They just put up their closure notice. My fiancée and I think that they started losing money after expanding so quickly (they went from 1 to 3 locations in like 5 years) and had to change their recipe to cut costs, but changing the recipe made the icecream suck, so they went into a spiral of cutting quality to compensate for low traffic, then traffic reduces because of poor quality. My heart aches over the fact that the best icecream I have ever tasted went down the drain the moment I lived within driving distance.

I avoided shorts on YT religiously, but as people sent them to me and they became more tuned to my preferences, I began absent mindedly scrolling them. I fucking hated it, I would realize I had wasted so much time idly swiping. I started running revanced specifically to turn that shit off on my phone so that the temptation wouldn't exist. So happy with my decision. I don't think it rotted my brain, but it made my phone a landmine for shit content, scammy ads, and wasted time.

Very minor, but I very recently changed deoderant after not being able to find the one I usually use. I just got to a clinic for a medication infusion and it has completely worn off, being replaced by the smell of stress sweat from traffic, and now this poor nurse has to smell me while I get my medicine, so I am mortified.