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17.07.25

Sometimes you just need to borrow your partner’s headphones about it.

Been reading Bloom’s Against Empathy lately, more on a whim than anything. Some interesting ideas tucked away between those digital pages. In other news I finally got around to watching Villeneuve’s Dune - the first one, late, I know. The aesthetic cohesion is really quite something and much of the design language used aligns so well with my own preferences. Jacqueline West really got me with the Atreides outfits; I fear I’ll be searching for a kosovorotka like Paul’s for the rest of my life.

quiet morning moment here 🐋

09.01.24

The problem with lying on the couches in the atrium of the aerospace building is not that I might be seen and judged my other students passing by (today still lives in that strange liminal space between terms, the few occupants wandering the halls fellow grad students more likely to sympathize with my languishing than criticize me for it). Rather it is that I am anemic. The moment I swing my legs back onto the ground and stand I see, in my swirling vision, the same stars I aspire to one day reach. And then I have to sit down again so I don't fall over.

The term has yet to begin in proper though the threat draws nearer by the day. Still, I find myself strangely exhausted. The dreary weather does little to help. Seem only to have found enough strength today to work through the morning, writing a bit aimless with no tangible project in which to ground it. Staring down the barrel of the year ahead impresses upon me the need to do Something of Value with the endless time I feel I have now, but even the tasks I conjure up for myself feel less than meaningful. I make myself another cup of tea and stare at the glow of monitor. Things will pick up soon enough.

26.07.23

Tumblr's new desktop update is horrendous. I wish it a very Die.

In other news, life transitions. Everything is a mess, has been for a month now, but something I've been looking forward to has finally happened today. Inevitability can be a beautiful thing when the outcome is one so sweet. Work remains as it always does; hoping to carve out a bit more time for myself to return to it. Worried, but hopeful. Soon I will have my peace back again - all's left to do is to hold on through the end of the storm.

21.10.21.

Long week, spent running around and busy as ever. Have been spending a lot of time in the lab, which unfortunately leads to limited photos due to potentially proprietary information lurking around in the background.

A few snapshots of my review for last week's exam, the first in person exam in over 2 years. We'll find out how I did in a few hours. Found creating my own flowcharts to be quite helpful, as systems engineering tends to be a high level type of process. It's a bit like solving a puzzle where all the pieces are different and you've don't have the photo reference; incredible fun.

08.05.2021.

09.11.21.

A few weeks ago I bought French toast flavored coffee, despite never having had flavored coffee before. Label promised a smooth light roast with subtle notes of maple and cinnamon. The store also happened to be running a sale on flavored coffees so I thought "why not," picked it up, placed it in the basket - I never use carts at the market, there's something tedious about them - and carried on. Have since been slowly working my way through the bag.

Some days I can't notice any sort of flavor to it at all, despite only ever taking my coffee black (or with a dash of milk or cream). Rushing around day in and day out tends to dampen the little grace notes of the life until they fade into easily ignored microtonalities. But it rained this morning and with the rain came a silencing of all the noise and chaos of the world. Sat on the floor and sipped away and heard the grace notes in the coffee. The label didn't lie - subtle notes of maple and cinnamon indeed.