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A month later and I’m still sick. I’m now in the cough variant asthma phase where I have a dry cough that powers itself endlessly. After a round of prednisone didn’t help, I got the antibiotic amonxicillin last Friday. I finished the regiment today and I haven’t improved much. These are new antibiotics to what I’ve taken the last times I’ve been sick, since my lung doctor doesn’t want to use the same 1s too much in case they no longer become effective. I’ll have to meet my lung doctor again in person to see what next to do. I hope I don’t have to deal with another month of this, though that has happened in the past.

At the moment, my writing is on pause and I haven’t met with my mentor in over a month. It was ill-timing, since a transcribing company I applied for requested an interview but I’m too sick to meet them even virtually. Also I can’t do the tests to apply for another transcribing company with part of me fighting a cold. My DMV test has been put off until April. I also heard rumors that my mentor might be leaving for another job elsewhere, which was fortunately cleared up when I emailed her and she said she needed to adjust our schedule for a month of training for her other part-time job. Her supervisor called to clarify she’ll need a month off to do that, but I can work with that. At least I won’t have to start all over again so soon after meet her. I can use March to focus on recovering while getting back to my writing routine.

Due to all the snow this week and being sick, I decided to watch the film The Colors Within on HBO Max. I was interested in seeing Goat but I didn’t want to overexert myself. It was a good, low-key film about being true to yourself and others. Totsuko is a girl attending an all-girls Catholic girl who can see people as colors. I do like her since she was shy and dorky. She’s entranced by popular girl Kimi’s colors but is shocked when she dropped out apparently after arguing with a nun. I did wonder if Totsuko trying to track her down was a bit stalkery but her actions were likely meant to be a concerned student checking on a fellow classmate. By chance a boy named Rui is present and some white lies and expression of interests leads to the trio forming a band. I did think Totsuko had a crush on Kimi, getting flustered when near her and enjoying laying on her lap on the boat ride to Rui’s home.

Kimi is reserved but not unkind, dealing with feelings of guilt and being unanchored. I also like Totsuko’s bond with Sister Hiyoko, who acts as a mentor and even helps her out with band practice. She’s also voiced by Yoshino’s actress from Digimon Savers, who went on to do live action work and I have to say her voice acting skills have improved, especially with such a reserved character. They all struggle with personal problems but slowly open up to each other. Rui doesn’t get quite as much focus but he lies to his mom about going to cram school feeling the weight of inheriting the doctor family business. Kimi doesn’t wish to disappoint her grandmother by revealing she dropped out of school. Even Totsuko deals with not wanting to weird others out by revealing she sees people as colors, even though her roommates seem like swell sorts.

The 3 being honest with each other when snowed in after band practice was good and it leads to them being honest with their parental figures. This film has a kinder view of humanity, since Rui’s mother and Kimi’s grandmother accept their admission and go to their concert. Even the nuns who scolded Totsuko for letting Kimi sneak back to school unsupervised danced to the trio’s music. All the songs were good and they were able to really express themselves. We even learn Sister Hiyoko was also part of a band herself. Totsuko while dancing in the school garden realizes her color is red, realizing a part of who she was. With Rui going to college, the band breaks up and there’s comment on the impermanence of times and bonds, and valuing it while you can. I’m glad the girls decided to openly bid farewell to him after hesitating. The post credit scene either shows footage of their time together or their reunion, so they still retain their bond. If you like this kind of relaxed, slice-of-life film, see it if it’s of interest to you.

That’s all for now. Free Palestine. May Trump and his ilk fail utterly. Until the end of March where I’ll hopefully get better, see you!