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Connor came to visit this week!!! Hello Connor if you’re reading this lol. It was fun to hang out!!! It’s been a couple of years(????) which is crazy. Delton came down to visit too and we made plans to visit them in Maine which will be fun! Also Big Walk came out and I’ve gotten together a big group to play tonight which I’m very excited about. Been looking forward to this game since announce!!!!…
The past few weeks have been an un-Boston-like level of dry and pleasant out, weather-wise, so of course this week is when the humidity comes back. The big event of the week was Creative Juices, my work’s annual-ish art show where staff, current and former interns, current and former freelancers, friends of the studio, etc, all submit artworks to be shown with a theme. This year’s was “A matter of…
Play the game here! view original --> Every year or two my work puts on an art show of staff and freelancer/intern/”friend of the studio” work, ideally with the intention that everyone makes a new work based on a theme that’s revealed a few months beforehand. I’ve been working here for the last three of these but never made anything for it, but after talking to coworker Michelle we decided to make…
hiiiiiiiiiiiii Okay so Monday I went to go see the band First Day Back , really good, super fun!!!! Loved the opener too, gapyear . It was at a really tiny venue and the energy was pretty unmatched. Probably one of the most active crowds I’ve seen in a bit, like 1/3 of the crowd had a pit going and there were constant stage divers (off of like, a 1-foot stage lol, the staff were helping people…
Late post but it’s still Monday!! Okay honestly nottttttt an eventful week. That’s okay though!!! Air quality was super bad because of wildfires in Canada, very hazy and smoky for a lot of the week, or honestly it was kinda more scary that the worst air quality was on the day that it didn’t even look that bad outside? I went to go see The Invite with coworker Brina, I hadn’t really been sold on it…
Wow, another week has happened, incredible. It’s the start of the new anime season and for the first time in a while I’m actually watching stuff!!!! Sayonara Lara, The Ghost in the Shell, catching up on Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk from last season, probably gonna watch that new kyoani show. I kinda fell off watching anime over the last few years, or I’d watch the first episode of…
As always in this area, summer came very suddenly this week in the form of a 90+ degree heat wave for most of the week. I biked into the office every day anyway, the commute is short enough where upper 90s isn’t unbearable, and at least I’m not paying for the AC in there as opposed to my apartment. Some coworkers and I went to a bar to watch one of the world cup games, very bizarre vibe there,…
Oh hello, in contrast to last week I did very little this week lol Deltarune chapter 5 came out but I still haven’t played, but I did finish Forza Horizon 6 (well, got the “legend” status which I’m going to treat as finishing the game). Pretty fun game, all of my thoughts here still apply. I wish the game had more Sauce but hey what can you do. Played in the final round of the pinball league, I…
I went to Copenhagen with Mariah and Nick!!!! Yippee!! I’m pretty sure this entire trip came from two of my friends going there last year, and one of them posted a photo of a hot dog to her instagram story and what started as a sort-of joke about wanting to eat the Copenhagen glizzy turned into an actual trip. Also, part of this I’m sure, was because going to Europe rather than Japan was very…
Wow another busy week!!!!! Went to see a movie on monday, had manga club tuesday, went to my brother’s wedding wednesday through friday, then went birding saturday and sunday. How fun!!!! Went to go see The Furious in theaters, banger movie honestly, just guys going sicko mode and beating each other up for 2 hours straight. Fight choreography was by Kensuke Sonomura, the same guy that did the…
Busy week!!! I wrote all of this monday and just forgot to post lol oops Monday was the Apple keynote where they announced iOS/macOS 27, the first 15 minutes of the keynote was amazing, just them listing all the new speed improvements and minimal new features, made me so hopeful for the future of the OSes, but then the next 40 minutes was them just talking about new siri AI features, lmao nvm.…
Okay yay I’m finally not sick anymore!!!!! On Monday I went to go see Obsession with a bunch of pinball people, great movie! Very spooky, pretty well done, after a point it does kinda feel like a “youtube university” project as Will Wilkinson says, where you can tell he’s mostly directed short films and now needs to fill a 100 minute runtime, but the pacing and tension was great throughout so it’s…
Boring post this week, I was supposed to do a bunch of stuff this weekend but I got sick on friday so I had to cancel almost everything 😔 Things I was supposed to do: See Backrooms twice, see James Blake in concert, go birding, go to a local vintage market. Tragic! Monday was a holiday where I just Chilled, actually that’s a good descriptor of the entire week lol. I played pinball twice this week…
Yayyyyy day off today!! Rainy memorial day weekend isn’t ideal but I’m also pretty okay with a weekend where I kinda do nothing. Or more accurately, play a lot of Forza Horizon 6 and work on the website I was commissioned to make. Tuesday/Wednesday this week was a pretty intense heatwave, hitting 95f both days which was kinda brutal. I pulled out all of my summer clothing, which is always an…
I honestly forgot I was supposed to be writing my Copenhagen blog lmao. I’ve been busy!!!! Thankfully this and next week are far less busy so I can spend time working on a commissioned website for some friends since that needs to be done by the end of the month. Tuesday I saw PinkPantheress with a bunch of people, suuuuper fun show! Terrible opener! Like actually bafflingly bad. Seemingly entirely…
Yippee I got my photos back!!!! They estimated a week for turnaround and it was like 4 days, I dropped off my film at Hunts before even leaving the country and I still haven’t gotten it back lmao……… UPDATE: I got them back on saturday lol, okay time to write my vacation post!!!!!!! Played all of Time Flies for work game club, really nice game!!!! We had a lot of discussion about the classic “time…
Okay I started going through my photos!! Once I get my film photos back I will write :3c After Mariah and Nick left I brought my film to a different photo shop and their rates are the same as the other one but with a better scanner and half the time for turnaround so I think I’ll go there more often (only downside is it’s slightly more annoying to get to). Back to work, something very funny about…
Two days late but whatever I feel like that’s within acceptable range. I’m back from copenhagen!!!! I will make a longer post later but I shot two film rolls there so I want to wait until I have those back so I can have all of my photos. Bag check guy at CPH clowning on me for asking to hand-check the rolls so they don’t go through the scanner, “You do know that an airplane has more radiation than…
Waow last pre-vacation weeknote!!! It’s patriot’s day as I’m writing this so yay no work :^) After a week of really nice weather we had a week of Actual Spring, which is to say rainy and cloudy and mid-50s. At the very least it looks like mariah being a 晴れ女 will cause the rain to stop for the beginning of next week when she’s here! In order to catch up to mariah on On the Calculation of Volume I…
hiiiii okay so main things from this week: The Drama (good), RISD Unbound (cute art), ren faire (fun) view original --> I got a film camera!! Yay! I’d been wanting the Kodak Snapic A1 and I decided to finally pick it up for my upcoming vacation. Seems like the ideal for something tiny and simple, but higher quality than a lot of the other reusable disposable-types. Something like the Lomo MC-A…
Monday, truly one of those days that reminds me why I love being in a city. Beautiful day, a little windy but partially cloudy and 65 by the time I left work. Biked to harvard square to meet up with ethan to get dinner before the Tigers Jaw show, ran into one of my coworkers while locking up my bike, then after eating I ran into a former coworker who I hadn’t seen in years, then at the show I ran…
Another late post, I was seeing Tigers Jaw so I was out all day, I’ll write about that in the next post!! Not as many video games this week, though also kinda still yeah. Did another playtest of my friend’s game . Lots of changes have been made, really cool seeing it come together! Went to another pinball tournament on thursday, this time bringing a coworker since she had expressed interest…
Okay so I did play a bunch of Marathon again this week but I also did other things too!!!!! Talked about Metropolis (1949) at manga club which was interesting???? Very goofy and weird, not really at all like the Rintaro anime adaptation. On thursday I went to go see Project Hail Mary in 70mm which was super fun!!!! Really good movie, highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Seeing it in 70mm was…
Big week for me, I got my new phone………. crazy!!!! I’m still getting used to the size, it’s just barely large enough where I can’t really one-hand stuff as easily. Like with my mini I never had to re-adjust my hand to reach anything, but I constantly have to do that with the 17 which makes it feel so much more precarious (like checking directions while i’m biking). I actually bought a case…
I’m sorry to say but it was yet another big Gaming week this week. I generally have media consumption/hobby “seasons” and I guess right now I’m in a video game one because I’ve been doing it a lot recently!!!! Marathon came out on thursday and I was peer-pressured into buying it but honestly???? Fun game. I feel like I Get It a lot more now, and the visual aesthetic/music/game-feel really keeps me…
Big snowstorm again!!!!! This time it was blizzard conditions though I think the actual snow totals were less? Much heavier and wetter snow since it was a lot warmer, but that also means it’s already melting since it’s been above freezing for at least a little bit every day this past week (and much sunnier). This was a big Gaming week, I started playing Overwatch again for the first time in 9…
Wrote most of this over the weekend but finishing it up during this big blizzard, my windows are completely covered by snow!! I can’t even see outside!! Got my replacement earbuds, the Nicehck EB2S (green, 3.5mm, with inline mic)! Very affordable on aliexpress, a little over 30 dollars with shipping, and wow they sound so nice. Very clear and crisp, surprisingly open and wide soundstage, and very…
Okay I’m late posting this AGAIN because I had to read all of volume 3 of Gundam: The Origin for my manga book club. Really good manga btw!!!!! I got 2 volumes in and I was like “oh okay I get it now”. It’s been a lot warmer this past week (like actually above freezing) and it’s been soooooo nice. Spring will be so soon, I won’t have to wear my bomber literally every day! yippee! Last week was…
Actually writing this on a Sunday for once wowowowww, it’s soooo cold today and it snowed even more yesterday, but it’s supposed to finally go above freezing next week and i’m soooo excited. I watched more Buffy with Olivia today for the first time since november!! We’re a third of the way through the final season…. so close….. After we finish I’m going to make her watch The Tatami Galaxy i think,…
Okay so sunday night into monday we had one of the biggest snowstorms we’ve had in like a decade. We got like 17 inches I think??? Crazy. There’s a really wonderful day or two after it happens where there’s this great collective energy in the city with everyone shoveling it and clearing roads and everything kinda shuts down a little bit, but sadly it hasn’t gotten above freezing in the week since…
Okay so this past week was pretty uneventful, which is fine!!!!! We had manga club on tuesday, talked about Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto (the goat) which I really enjoyed. I need to read more of his stuff I think, I’ve had the first two volumes of Sunny for years and just never read it for some reason. It’s so funny to me how I can kinda blast through a volume of a comic/manga in like two…
yippee pretty busy week this week!!!! i went out for dinner with some friends on tuesday to a place in chinatown that i had been to before and is really yommy and was put on the michelin list recently. probably deserved, it’s really good, thankfully it’s also very affordable and Normal, whenever i think of michelin restaurants i think of like….. places that have long waitlists and are expensive…
omg how embarassing it’s the second week in a row where I forgot to write this by monday, I only remembered when mariah messaged me at like 10:30 last night and I was too sleepy to put any effort into it. Did I do anything particularly interesting? Who’s to say! While I haven’t been reading a ton recently, I did have a wild parasocial relationship moment with one of my favorite musicians, since…
omg how embarassing I totally forgot to write this until today LOL well whatever it’s not that interesting anyway. Work has been pretty slow this past week, as to be expected with everyone on vacation still, but also because both of my projects are in a bit of a client feedback/wrapping up phase. I went to Porter Robinson’s new years eve eve DJ set which is the 10th time I’ve seen him live!!!!…
2025 was pretty good overall!!! I had a great trip to Japan to start the year and it was fun visiting mariah over the summer. I didn’t achieve either goal I set out for myself, but whatever!! Next year I hope to lean a little more creative and less consumptive and spend less time scrolling twitter, but I’m also not going to be too hard on myself about it because whateverrrrrrrrr Hobbies and things…
view original --> Whoaaaaa it’s christmas time! I had two pretty leisurely days at work this week before having two days off to see the family. Tuesday I baked two batches of cookies for my dad’s gift, the eggnog snickerdoodles I made last week and the broma baking chocolate chip cookies using tcho chocolate. Soooooo good, super rich, highly recommend. I gotta bake with browned butter more often…
Last week before The Holidays start, though they kinda already did since I had my work holiday party on thursday and my friend party on saturday~! But first, on tuesday, we had the manga club meeting and read a not-manga, For Your Murder . Pretty compelling plot, got me thinking about what I like in this type of story, and I think I mostly just enjoy a good detective procedural more than anything,…
I’ve been playing Halo 3 (MCC) a good amount the last few months, and a couple weeks ago sean and I played Call of Duty Black Ops (2? I forget) and I joked that it would awaken something in me, bringing out my old COD-playing self. So obviously I bought Battlefield 6 which immediately scratches that itch, but thankfully I don’t feel as I once did playing COD4 in high school (lmao). It’s fun…
Okay last week’s post was sooooooo lazy but I’ll just say it’s because this week was so busy!! Monday Sean and I got our christmas tree for the year! I’m generally a winter holiday Hater but I do love having a real tree inside, every day I’ve gotten home and it smells soooooo good inside. Some friends and I had a discord manga book club going for most of the year, but we all fell off over the…
With the import tariffs I’ve almost completely stopped my art book purchasing, but there was a CD I wanted so I thought I’d make the most of it and import some other art books I’d been looking at!! The fees weren’t that bad, 19 dollars on a 58 dollar order, which basically cancels out any savings I’d have gotten by the yen being weak. Not happy about it but it could have been worse!! Art by, in…
A consistently-updated list of things that I want to buy, gift ideas, etc! Bold things are at the top of my list Gift Cards Bandcamp This is 100% my favorite place to get music these days, DRM-free downloads and streams, merch, supports artists, etc! Here’s some specific albums I want: Bandcamp wishlist AMC Theaters Things/Clothing Loose leaf teas Broken Cup Teahouse <- my favorite!!! really good…
Okay not a lot to talk about this week, it’s starting to actually get cold which I love for my Fits since I can finally wear all of my fun sweaters (BUT it’s so hot in my office that I really can’t which is so sad u_u like it should not be 75 indoors in the winter!!! That’s too hot!!!) After getting my 3sixteen RS-100xk they’ve kinda ruined how all of my other pants fit to me, I think I have to…
Okay I was out Having Fun monday night, unexpectedly, so I’m writing this tuesday morning in bed before work yay Saw Frost Children and peterparker69 this week!!!! Both so good live, honestly so impressed that Frost Children played for a full 90 minutes with how high energy they were the entire time. Peterparker69 (only Jeter was there) was great, really fun hearing their tracks adapted to a live…
view original --> I finished playing the Skate 4 (“skate.”)… campaign? Missions I guess? Not even sure how much you can say one can “finish” an early access video game, but there’s certainly very little to do in the game now at this point. Really feels emblematic of the current states of Big video games, a pretty popular game series finally gets the sequel that everyone wanted, but it’s a…
I went to go see the Chainsaw Man movie in theaters on monday, suuuuuuper good, I never watched the tv anime but I read the manga, and this movie changed everything I wasn’t into about the anime aesthetically. Tatsuki Fujimoto said he was inspired by the Before trilogy of films for this arc so I guess I should finally get around to watching those! I watched the third one in theaters when it came…
Inspired by mariah and many others and also my desire to actually Post (i take a lot of photos that i just don’t do anything with because i find posting on bluesky/mastodon/etc annoying for some reason??? maybe it’s adding the alt-text that no one i know will ever use but i feel obligated to write lol) i’m gonna start Posting!!!! we’ll see how weekly i can make this, maybe it’ll motivate me to…
I was going to write a like, “spring + summer 2025 in review” kind of post but I kept putting it off and then I went on another vacation so I guess that’ll be written later lmao. I went back to California!!!! This started from two things: First, I’ve been watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Olivia for the last ten months and whenever the Apple TV puts on the screensaver it’s of a different…
I went to Japan again!!!!! I turned 30 in February and what better way to celebrate than going back (this time to Hokkaido!) This trip was pretty different structurally than the last one so the format of this post will be a bit different. Rather than go day by day I’m just gonna list my highlights interspersed with photos I took! Yay! Also feel free to check out my friend Sean’s blog of the same…
seeing porter robinson on the smile tour view original --> The true curse of end-of-year lists is that as people are posting theirs, it gives me way more things to watch/listen to/read/etc, so then I feel like I need to delay my own to be more all-encompassing of stuff that came out in the year, BUT then it just means I never post it. SO!!!!! I am simply posting it and not thinking about that!!!…
In class blog fashion, I’ve been a bit neglectful in posting!! So here’s a nice hard reset where I recap everything that’s happened since my last post! Not going to be as detailed as my previous posts, but that’s fiiiiiine i’ll make up for it later April Saw Oneohtrix Point Never (again!), absolutely incredible show experience, unbelievable visuals, and it was a career-spanning setlist so I got to…