twoweekersday

[thegreatratsby]

I did post last Thurs on neocities so this is combined!
3/27: got a rabbit foot fern at a museum event that I accidentally ended up at after dropping someone off at the airport. very excited to let it get all weird. waited to write this until I had a meeting with my advisor at 4pm Thursday: things sort of fixed but also not really!
4/1: lads it's been a rough one mentally. I did find a local fencing club! the on-campus club is mostly geared towards undergrads, which feels weird to me to be in now, and also meets at NINE PM ON WEEKDAYS. no thanks. the local one is all ages which feels like a better fit socially and at 6pm which is Definitely a better fit schedually lol. so I went yesterday and it was loads of fun and I will definitely be going back. more money sink hobby yayyyy

listening:
3/27:

• newest clipping. album. bangers all around. favorite track I think ... Madcap? Maybe Polaroids? it's all really good I need to give it another listen to really dial that down. Run It also really good.
• Tchaikovsky symphony no. 4, movement 1 is my favorite part I think but we're doing movement 1 and 4 for next orchestra concert :)
• Doechii Alligator Bites Never Heal, favorite track predictably "Denial Is a River"
• new friends at the table season!! I'm gonna do my darndest to keep up this time. I'm not done with episode 2 but should finish it by the time the new ep drops tomorrow (I think it's Fridays?). this is the worldbuilding so I'm really just kind of letting it ... wash over me ...
• the new Chappell song. idk maybe I'm just a hater but it didn't tickle my brain, might just need to let it marinate more
  4/1:
• for now I have moved away from spotify because my hacked app no longer works...tragedy....so I've been spending a lot of time on bandcamp. legitimately good radio and music discovery on there! I will probably end up back on spotify for a bit to export my good playlists etc but like. bandcamp kinda whips.
• Minds & Colors (mabanua): as in the first song's title, this feels like something you'll hear in a hip coffee shop. neutral groovy. favorite track: "On Everything", "Conflicting"
• finally listened to Tallahassee (The Mountain Goats) all the way through: good album! I think I like The Sunset Tree better as an overall album. favorite track: No Children is the obvious banger but First Few Desparate Hours, Idylls Of The King, and See America right get honorable mentions. maybe I do like this as much as Sunset Tree lol that's a lot of honorable mentions.
• Into the Hall of the Goblin King (Freshman Biology): whimsey! Some of the other stuff from this artist is discordant in a way that feels bad for me specifically unless I am in a specific brain state but this one is good. would love more classical music covers like this. 10/10.
• Hildegard of Bingen: O Fire Of The Holy Spirit, Comforter: cannot explain this one
  
  reading:
• fallow on 3/27
• There's Someone On The Ice (Sam Kriss): engaging read! Really loved the section that was a transcript of a governmental proceeding.
• Into the Demiground (Margaret Killjoy): I do periodically think about nuking my facebook, etc, but a good point is made that having a suspiciously wiped clean online record can look a little weird. better to have it as a decoy sometimes. also we live in a society.
• From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (Ursula le Guin): this article was cited by that Amber podcast I mentioned a few weeks ago as a criticism of Zelazny's prose style but bizarrely it does not seem to mention him specifically in any way at all. then again that guy didn't know who Ursula le Guin even was, so --
• We put dozens of trackers in plastic bags for recycling. Many were trashed. (Matt Guttman, et al.): well now I am absolved to put all my stupid plastic bags in the normal trash, I Guess.
• i'm the ghost of my mistakes (tentacledicks): (really good username that i only just now noticed): linked by the author in a shared discord server. I don't Go Here but I enjoyed it! mind the tags!
• and finally, burial at sea, a beefleaf essay zine by tumblr user mengyao/ao3 user bloodletter/dw user headstone. my copy came in the mail with a spine ding (it looks like someone stabbed through the package?? it's super weird) but thankfully it did not impact legibility. I spent some warm afternoon hours on a towel on the grass outside my apartment building reading it, really good, 10/10.
  
  watching:
  3/27:
• xisumavoid, hermitcraft !!!
• Quiltcon 2025 transparency: literally obsessed with these.
• tiffanyferg video on social media: i love you neocities i love you tumblr i love you dreamwidth
• caroline winkler decluttering boyfriend's closet: I like her chill measured approach to it all.
  4/1:
• extreme amounts of xisumavoid hermitcraft.
  
  playing:
  3/27:
• ohhh we minecrafting. added my favorite vanilla tweaks resource pack and my roommate found a mod to make all the hostile mobs not-hostile any more so we can actually get ender pearls, etc. it does not appear to be functioning in the nether? it's a work in progress.
• blades in the dark!!!! frothing at the mouth. I love my girl Scud and I equally love the other characters Alastor (heart of gold, trying to save his sister from evil jail) and Barnabus (lawyer who wants to become a supervillain, literally a cartoony batman villain in vibe but in an extremely good way)
• more boring dnd
  4/1:
• more mostly-vanilla minecraft, plus a new modded server with B and friends! I say mostly-vanilla for the first one bc we did add a mod to make the majority of hostile mobs not-hostile, lol. this does not work for slimes, magma cubes, or ghasts, for some reason. the other modded server is . lots of things happening in there huh. the first time I tried to go on by myself I got shot by ?? something?? so . hang on there's an screenshot of the minecraft server chat that makes this funnier. and then immediately logged off for the night :V
  
  
  making:
  3/27:
• kituba planning for my friend.....I need to order good arches watercolor paper for some tests that reminds me
• dino bowl made it through the bisque, slapped it with clear and put her back on the shelf
• threw a shaving bowl for boyf and two more sake cups to paint ferns on so my mom can have a set of 4. no pictures because taking photos of freshly done clay bowls is just flat circles lol but trust. they look good. I'm getting a lot more consistent.
  4/1:
• little milk pitcher for me, matcha bowl for roommate. this was my first time collaring clay and there are Definitely ripples in that thang but oh well. thinking about what kind of handle to put on it.
  
  
  eating:
  3/27:
• smitten kitchen soy glazed chicken. a classic.
• maple and miso sheet-pan salmon with green beans, NYT. really yummy! made some microwave brown rice+quinoa to go with, and also a salad that was just greens topped with slivered almonds, a marinated artichoke heart, and kalamata olives with some balsamic vinegar. my cat wanted to eat the artichoke heart so bad. weirdo.
• roommate made a Beautiful iced rose matcha latte for me. this was before I mixed it. so yummy too
  
  4/1:
• finishing leftovers, cleaning out some cubes of soups, chicken and rice, etc that I froze this winter. mostly fallow I think ...