weekly roundup

[thegreatratsby]

listening

• FATT: introduction to realis and then episode 1 of the realis miniarc. I like it! this is a very Made By Austin Underscore Walker ttrpg for sure
• Lady of the Moon (Night Cap) - very lush
• Sun (Serik Fein) - sun drenched rocks
• The Only Exception (Paramore) - good to sing along to, might have boyf learn guitar for it
• and then the following for orchestra:
• Tchaikovsky No. 4
• Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
• Overture to Nabucco
  
  
  
  

  reading

• finished the dispossessed - literally obsessed. so fucking good. as a physics phd student I really enjoyed the pseudophysics, the callout to "Ainsetain" made me laugh. felt very big brained when I connected the structure of the book (alternating chapters of his timeline, with the last chapter leading back to the first) to the metaphysical ideas of cycles and non-linearity of time...
• started medieval haggadah book
• i won't be going gentle (cyanocorax): really cool fic. what if odysseus was a trucker.
  
  

  watching

• finished the Lain rewatch w the boyf. really good. got to mutually infodump on gnosticism. pepe sylvia string board moment.
• we also watched Space Patrol Luluco! really cute. the references to the other trigger shows made me laugh.
• also got him to watch the first ep of the tgcf donghua. I forgot how opaque it is for people who aren't already initimately familiar with the characters and story lol...so I do not think we will be watching more :(
  
  

  playing

• dnd!
  
  

  making

• painted koi on a plate!
  
• painted some ferns on some sake cups for my mom! this and prev are both majolica-style so I hope they come out of the kiln the way they went in and don't turn into a muddy mess...
  
• finished bug coasters! they are not big nor flat enough to really be coasters but I can hang them on a wall, put them in flower pots, prop them up on a bookshelf...many options.
  
  
  

  eating

• crispy pan fried shrimp with cabbage slaw (12ft.io will bypass the paywall). yummy! used freezer brown rice instead of farro or whatever. doesn't reheat the best, I have just been reheating the rice and not the shrimp but they are no longer crispy. toaster oven might do a better job.
• chicken rice with buttered onions: another broadly-W from deb smittenkitchen! I couldn't find bone-in skin-on thighs and I did brown them because I didn't see her note beforehand about skipping the browning step for skinless boneless so they ended up a smidge dried out...I have some leftover harissa sauce from my other chicken recipe in the freezer so I think I am going to defrost that to have with the thighs. the rice is really good tho.
  
  

  moving

• feb 17: row (70lb 3x7 with a wide grip, 1x7 with a narrow grip), lat pulldown (70lb 3x5), bent over cable row (15lb 2x8 each side), and then 20 min on the elliptical (3 min with resistance, 2 min without, repeat)
• last gym visit before that was feb 4 :( the mental illinois was Quite bad last week, had a really bad time getting myself out the door... 1 hr 15m, lat pulldown (70lb 3x5, 85lb 3 2), shoulder press (20lb 5x5), incline biceps (12.5lb 3x7), tricep pulldown on pulley (25lb 5 7 5), upper lats (28lb 3x5), arnold press (7.5lb each 5x8), cable bent over row (21lb 8 5), 10 bench pushups
  
  

  misc

• it's been a rouuuughhhhh two weeks. no other comment.