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Just in time for pride month, wow. [canned studio laughter] I'll admit, this one took longer to write because it's longer than my usual film reviews. In the past, even before this blog, I'd just do short reviews. I've had this sitting in my drafts because it became more than just reviews and sort of thoughts, sort of analyses. The initial draft was more joke-y and feral but I started fleshing the…
Forecast: hot, low to mid 90s (F) Mood: weary Now playing: hum of washer in final spin cycle 1:43 PM The inaugural field notes entry... (I miss Myspace status updates and blog widgets. Can you tell?) I used to do these notes in a pocket notepad when out and about, and more recently in my phone's notes app. Sometimes I'd share these notes with trusted eyes. Not always. It's just a way to get…
I write this, sorely, from my bed--not from injury or defeat, but from actual sore muscles. I’ve been going to the gym for about four months. Strength training. I’m not unfamiliar to exercise. In my twenties, I used to run on days off, and bike when I wanted to go farther and faster. Sometimes, I’d hike spontaneously in the woods outside of my city. I’d be on my feet a lot for fun when I wasn’t on…
I've been doing a lot of emailing at my job lately and it's been good practice for grad school. I need to sharpen my email communication because I need to remember how to greet a professor during office hours. The venn diagram of corporate emailspeak and academic emailspeak is a circle. It's been a while since undergrad, so I'm a bit rusty. Professors typically appreciate a proper first…
i've been kind of sick for the past few days and had to slow down, natch. it's nothing serious, and i feel i'm on the mend already. maybe it's because of summer around the corner, my age, the post-feverish nap i had, something, but i got this feeling of "yeah, life is alright" washing over me. i've had somewhat of a "meh" streak, and "staying positive" is too vague for my taste. this list has some…
hey, i haven't been on here much. i thought i posted more in april, but no. i checked my guestbook by chance and saw words by an anonymous person who thought it'd mean something to tell me i'm a mess. i'm leaving it up, even after filtering out what looked like unmoderated spam. so, this is gonna be a means to set some boundaries. folks across online spaces sometimes forget that going to someone's…
i woke up today to a fundamental shift in myself. full moon, endless on a loop, laundry day--a proper way to start a new month. full moons are a reflective time, sort of this check in of, "what have i done since the last one?" for certain, it's being flexible to change, diving headfirst into it. big changes, small changes, you name it. for one, i'm trying out font-secondary: sans-serif while…
i wrote this title out and saved as a draft during a fast time, and i'm glad i did. i most definitely would have forgotten. now i can write about it during a slow time. i don't remember the context around writing this out, but i remember feeling like i was catching up to... everything . maybe it was the time change last week. funny, because you'd think extra daylight would put time at my side.…
my little ol' post got traction! i've been meaning to do a blurb about this. end of february, i logged on to see if i had a draft idea saved since i couldn't find it elsewhere. literally just searching through a digital pile of sticky notes. then i see my analytics are popping off. eyebrow furrow, head tilt, click. well it turns out, i got featured in a neat list with other interesting posts and…
i've had a spotty draft sitting in here titled, "the most masculine thing a man can do is grow his hair out." it felt spotty, despite the edits and additions and revisions, and i could not finish it for some reason. but i didn't want to scrap it, no. there was something missing to it. it came to me one day in the shower, as many lightbulb moments tend to: this is the most masculine thing i can do.…