weeknotes 32.14
okay hii, i feel like i'm honestly just clocking in at this point to post weeknotes. but i also feel like i'm just doing the bare minimum of remaining to be a human which is a separate and bigger issue that i still haven't been able to put into sentences that make sense to someone besides me. oh well!
heres the vibe for today
drinking: coffee, finally using v60 filters again. perfect. subpar beans though. my usual grocery store beans (top 4 choices) were not there.
snacking: japanese peanuts. like actually from japan and not the gas station/mexican ones. this is a terrible description. おのろけ豆 mix but everything except the wasabi ones because i'm a wasabi hater.
waiting: for nick to wake up so he can eat the leftover wasabi peanuts, and to eat a meal.
i have a lot of thoughts that would be a good blog post but i'm going to be realistic this week and just type it here. but its generally related to end of year or beginning of the year reflections.
- i see a lot of people have this resolution to go back to analog. like i'm going to also ignore that getting an ipod instead of using spotify is actually not "analog" because it's still digital. like how POV doesnt mean POV anymore. words matter and not to be "old man yells at cloud" i'm going to stop. but the return to physical media for a majority of people will end up being a consumerism trend. i say that while i own a $400 CD player, but i also have 20 years of collecting CDs and i do have a small bluray collection but my player is a ps3 that my uncle gave me because he was moving. and i only have skyrim on it so its not like i use it to play games. i'm trying to justify my own collecting but this is years of work and basically only on sale. one of the first gifts nick ever got me when we started dating were two copies of timely!! by anri actually.
- people are hard pivoting to going offline i wonder if people realize the issue is not the internet itself but the attention economy, influencers, and all the other buzzwords. also self discipline. like if you need to buy another device because the first one is a problem,,, its addiction. at least look inward before blaming the internet. some people will benefit from a separate device and some wont. am i making sense? i cant really be bothered to explain this one well. this is a lot. but its a discussion i love to have with people irl!! i beat out all my coworkers in screen time usage (golf rules) theres a video i like that i not related but i want to just link it because i think its good (: the internet used to be a place its a good starting place i guess.
- another thing i've seen are people going to journaling physically (this is analog). and as a life long journaler, i support. but dont buy an expensive notebook. its a habit to build up. i say this as a person who uses a pilot decimo or grance this can potentially lead to a lot of consumerism. so don't get into fountain pens, but thats what i tell everyone. i genuinely started with those $1 school notebooks (green or purple always) but do people really use their notes app for this stuff???? im also calling everything "journaling" for brevity.
- i saw some people make zines for their year in review which i think is great and so much fun!!! and not related to those people but it reminds me that if your "zine" has an ISBN,,, bitch thats a book. zines should be free or a max of $10. "I put a lot of money into it" okay then its a book?? no one asked you for a perfect bound 40 page glossy finish art "zine" thats a fucking book. a zine should be held together by like 2 staples. i once hand stitched a zine together because i didn't have a stapler, but that was personal gift so the effort was worth it. its not about the effort its about the access. like honestly making a 1/1 perzine to a friend is so fun i should do it again....
also substack is social media. i dont want to explain it right now.
i've also been thinking about this video since ICE shot a woman.
i'm sorry i have nothing exciting for weeknotes to share. my excuse and reason is work. cant talk about work because its boring. but i did tell my boss that i'm taking a week off as soon as the guy i'm covering comes back from MLOA. he pre-approved it. it'll be a very yolo trip somewhere. i've been unhealthily monitoring emails while i'm off and thankfully my boss is saying that i'm not on site today, thank god. but by the time i get home from work i just shower eat and sleep. maybe read for 5 minutes. and even during my break because i'm a loser who takes my break at my desk (because my journal is there and thats good journaling time) sometimes i keep working in my break hahahaha.
but i'm actually going to just turn my phone off and lay down in bed and read for the rest of the day. don't know what yet. might re-read stoner since nathan read it recently.
also i accidentally spent £155 on books this morning, oops. i might also accidentally spend $500 on a lomo mc-a... but thankfully i watched the grainydays video on it which discouraged me.
anyways i don't really have much to share,,, sorry...