Media Film/TV Not really any movies lately! My partner cajoled me into watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which I had initially dismissed while it was airing because I was burnt out on the world of ASOIAF and a show about a normal knight didn’t sound terribly interesting. As it turns out, everyone is right: it...

Sometimes I’m like I wanna write a blog post but idk what to write about; then I’m like, I should do a weeknotes post but idk aren’t they getting kind of boring and bland (for me to write) and I should try something different; today I guess I wanna write something and weeknotes are the tried and true structure. I...

We’re nearing the end of August 2026, and I figured it’s time I give up the pipe dream of writing a 2025 recap the way I envisioned a whole year ago. Some sections are what I did write over the past eight months; other sections I simply could not muster up the willpower to write about this late in the year, hence...

Some highlights from the last month (ish) About the city I biked along the seawall, which I hadn’t done in a while Watched A couple of World Cup games — Norway vs England, and Spain vs Argentina I finally watched X-Men '97 (season 1), which was good! I need to watch season 2 soon The Odyssey was good I should...

Touch Grass went to the local bird sanctuary on Canada Day where, fittingly, I saw a lot of Canada geese and ducks, which followed us around when they saw we were carrying birdseed. (you’re allowed to feed the birds at the sanctuary.) I haven’t gotten around to looking at the digital photos I took, but eventually…...

Can I keep doing this weekly?? let’s see This week I started and finished reading The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson. I enjoyed it! Wilson’s translation was easy to read and it was fun to finally see the bits and pieces that I’ve learned via cultural osmosis in the text. There’s a lengthy introduction that...

I took this week off from work and I had wanted to spend the time being wildly productive, but of course reality happened and it was [fart noises] pretty chill instead. I made zero progress on any side projects, but I did clean my apartment, touch grass, hang out, read books, play Destiny, and get cooked by the sun....

Happy weeknotes number 40! I thought about doing something special for this, but realized I have too many unfinished projects that I would rather work on instead. Perhaps when I hit 50. Once again, too much time has passed since the previous entry that I’ve forgotten what’s happened and what I wanted to include....

These days, I am preoccupied with: 1) painting every day for plein airpril; 2) uh, that’s kind of it, actually, I thought there would be more to this list. PleinAirpril This is my third year of participating in PleinAirpril! It’s an art challenge to paint every day of the month. Despite the name, I am not actually...

I visited the San Francisco Bay Area twice last year, and meant to write about my trips but never got around to it. I figure I’ll never write that post at this point, but I still would like to share the photos I took, so here they are. Caltrain train! train! train! Stanford University I took the Caltrain to Palo...

I was thinking the other week about how I should write weeknotes more often. Last year I wrote fewer, after getting tired of them and finding fulfillment elsewhere; now I’ve come back round to it. It may do me some good again to document such things. I suppose this cycle is natural. Projects I remain scatterbrained...

if the layout is messed up in your rss reader, apologies, I did some gruesome CSS stuff—I recommend reading it in your browser. What is this? you ask. Well, it’s a tale as old as time. I had a vision, and then it was Sunday night and I hadn’t achieved it. As I result, I present you this: something that might be...