a significant density, per capita, of random • Started a new panel for my Vappu outfit this year....

Started a new panel for my Vappu outfit this year. It’s just a cheap chef’s apron sort of thing off Aliexpress but since it’s quite synthetic material, thus water-resistant, one could theoretically put it on the ground for sitting on if needed. It was the warmest Vappu in something like a decade. I haven’t needed to wear the overalls with the sleeves around my waist for, well, years, and the sleeves are now stiff from all the patches on them that they just don’t flex enough to be tied anymore. I ended up just tucking them in place around the stuff on my belt. On the other hand, wearing it like this means I can actually bend over or sit down without worrying about ripping any of the stitching on the legs. Just the textile parts of the costume weigh close to 3 kg. It takes maybe 45 minutes the night before to test-fit and figure out how best to arrange all the accessories, and then another 10-15 to put everything on in the morning. At the park I saw a couple of people walk past with an “Ask me about Karaoke Appro” sign and I wanted to chase them down to ask about it but I couldn’t leave my position because I was waiting for Coworker. It probably isn’t something I’d participate in anyway, despite really wanting more karaoke in my life. It’s something about the kind of music I prefer to sing and in a bar crawl situation you’re gonna be singing in groups and I don’t sing karaoke in groups. I’m starting to feel… not necessarily too old, but too tired for all this (especially the student excesses but I was never into the student excesses anyway). Like, it takes an immense amount of effort to leave the apartment more than twice a week. That kind of tired. I didn’t even do my usual walkaround of the park to see what wacky picnic/party setups people had; I just said hi to the usual people and met up with Coworker and went off to get my usual tray of fried muikkus and go back downtown where we could sit around by the marina with more space to breathe. (Pro tip, muikkus are cheaper at Kauppatori despite targeting tourists there, than at the Vappu food truck row at Kaivopuisto.)