week 06.5

wau damn it's been 3 weeks and ive really not had too much to say so i am marking this as 06.5 because it's an offseason post and i'll keep marking offseason posts as .5s. since break started i don't think i've been very productive and that's down to a few reasons that eventually circle back to me not finding enough motivation... but i think it's gotten better recently (after all there's been 3 weeks and i can't stay dormant forever)

i may reconsider the format of this blog during offseason due to the lack of content in certain sections but that will start next time at the earliest

1-college apps

so actually not incredibly fruitful on this front but i have learned more and more about options for safeties and i kind of have a basic idea of what options i have for rea now so that's nice

in the following week i should be basically finalising my college list so yay

2-competitive stem olympiads

moving through atkins slowly and will take scho probably tomorrow? im on ch8 rn so not looking too good rip

3-f1

right so i dont even remember what race my last post was during but like the media has been truly disgusting after the austria incident and i really really respect max and lando for keeping it very cool and respectful

also yay george win

in terms of absolute speed i think ferrari has a big huge gigantic issue right now they look absolutely useless :skull: definitely where mercedes was earlier in the year so :/

in terms of quali today it was quite interesting and i really really hope that its like semi wet tomorrow cause that would be simply epic with strategy kind of like canada

this time merc has 2 cars in front lol hopefully they can do something about verstappen ??

also like haas are the goats for some reason hopefully williams can score some points too oops

4-other sports

i think im going to portland grand prix

ermmm so i kind of got into football since the euros and the copa america are happening and along with football manager i think im slowly learning more and more how to actually watch matches now

a funny side effect of this is that i am getting a lot of french posts/reels on instagram now related to soccer/other things and its really funny in additional to being a platform to practice french on :skull:

i think defensive football is becoming more and more of a thing now? and it's kind of cool for me cause ig i did start watching in this era so,,,, yeah also there's just so much hate in the football community (at least online) in general and i really dislike it. it's like verstappen hamilton but like 30 times worse :( and it's universal hate like everyone (ok basically everyone) has haters online and hate changes one match after another depending on performances which is not nice to see... ig this also reflects how people are like eager to jump on performances and honestly any kind of (positive/negative) excitement and hence hate defensive football bc there's nothing they can like cling onto unless they actually focus and properly admire the technique and strategy in it

copa america pen shootout format (no et) is very intriguing and i think this has directly resulted in me watching like 60% more pen shootouts over the past two weeks lol

i really like watching pen shootouts for some reason it's kind of fun even though much of the time i still have no clue who the players are in copa america...

anyways rip ronaldo pepe kroos neuer :pray: all goats

france england final would be cool

5-gaming

um well so ive started to get into football manager but im spending way too much time on it so i'll def be scaling back the time commitment but it is really the most fun and comprehensive game that i've ever set eyes upon it's wonderful honestly

anyways brief updates on my career i got hired as the head coach of a vanarama national league team (so the 5th tier of english football) that was struggling in the fringes of demotion and in the first year pulled off an 11 win streak to end up 7th but lost the playoffs in the round of 6

second year i basically renewed the squad and was hoping to do well but then we actually ended up doing pretty poorly initially, stuck around 8th place but as the season went on we gained steam and cemented 3rd but a huge throw in the last 2 games meant we fell to 4th on goal difference :( we went to wembley twice for the fa trophy and the vanarama playoff finals and won the former for the second trophy in club history, but the latter was marred by a very untimely injury for our lead striker rip so we stay in vnl

third year just begun in-game and i was also hired as the ivory coast coach which is cute and i have to fight to keep good players in the squad cause so many of them hold french dual nationality :skull: but yeah we are on course to qualify for the AFCON and the world cup so yay; in terms of club results we started with 5 wins on the bounce but recently lost terribly and fell to 2nd but im confident we can climb back and if not at least finish 2nd :)

i trolled in the most recently asphalt 9 grand prix cause i forgot they counted practice times in seeding so i accidentally forgot to sandbag when practicing and got sorted into tier 2 :skull: its over for rewards now cause i also forgot to run round 2 ... oh well lesson learned

havent rly played brawl these few weeks lol

played the discord fall guys rip off yesterday for like 2 hours it was kind of crazy :skull:

6-school stuffs/clubs

got ib scores back today ig LOL um i mean i did not expect a fricking 5 on history but all else is as predicted, see section 10 on week 02 i think

at least now i know i can apply to cambridge LOL hmmmmmm

7-scibowl

not much but scibowl central seems cool, also we're going to launch smh soon at least to staff

8-scioly

n/a

9-tay / other music

very intriguing cause https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vo2IgYeduehofKUxOneCL?si=1f10f7f368a44567 is kind of a goated playlist for studying

10-misc

i went to the glass museum on tuesday! it was really cool

alright cya soon in hopefully less than 3 weeks this time? lol

thanks kian for pushing me to write this post i was kind of losing steam i need to go read atkins now