#tuesdayposting

--> once again: workout routine! setting this at 1 day of cardio, 1 day of yoga/adjacent, and 1 day of weights per week. this feels sustainable. would like to make it through the yoga every day down dog challenge for January. did an OK job with keeping in shape...started fencing again, I have 31 entries in my phone note that keeps track of when I worked out, so not. great. I didn't put yoga and some misc cardio in there to be fair though.

--> reintegrate journaling into my day-to-day. basically did not journal

--> clean up some digital clutter; organize photos and files, empty..my tumblr likes ...... [80k posts] did organize some digital stuff, decided I don't give a fuck about clearing out my tumblr likes. up to 85k. love and light --> generally move away from perfectionist tendencies (in writing/journaling (feeling compelled to record Everything), painting, etc) did Okay in moving away from excessive record keeping --> submit to the gallery on main street for real this time submitted to the gallery, AND it got accepted! it is hanging there til mid Jan :] --> finish the travel journals did not finish the travel journals lol 

--> learn some quilting did learn some quilting! 

--> get back into neocities! maybe start crossposting these on there? I DID get into neocities! yippee! wahoo! 

--> read like...10 books this year actually, yes! even if we don't count the beefleaf zine or the OTGW art book, I did read multiple volumes of Remnants of Filth which is technically multiple books! 

--> pass my prelim exams ;_; LOL. did NOT pass my prelims. have not done them yet. there is Problems with my advisor but we're getting there. I DID, however, give a successful conference talk on my work, so there's that at least.

that's a 7/10 success rate, if we include the Kind Ofs. sure! 

some of the highlight from my doings:

notable meals: pozole feast, 10 course passover tasting menu, homemade korean food

books read: Earthlight, The Dispossessed, Annihilation, Haunting of Hill House, Leviathan Wakes, Beefleaf Zine, Evil as Humans, Blindsight, OTGW Art Book, Remnants of Filth (many volumes, unfinished still); read but did not finish On Repentance and Repair (ongoing) and The Creative Act (abandoned), Witch Hat Atelier (still updating)

movies: Minecraft Movie, What We Do in the Shadows, Beetlejuice, The Dead Don't Die, Frankenstein (2025), The Last Holiday, Ocean's 11, The Thing, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder

shows: Serial Experiments Lain, Interview with the Vampire, Over the Garden Wall, The Expanse, Apothecary Diaries (only non-rewatch on this list)

music: clipping., The Mountain Goats, Kokoro Sababa 5, Sammy Rae, It Started In The Woods Agalisiga, Tchaikovsky No. 4, The Dear Hunter Migrant Remastered, Tears for Fears Songs From The Big Chair

podcasts: Just King Things, Trueanon, Jim Gordon Must Die

and the 2026 resolutions:

really lock in on working out. this is the year of the pullup. I can feel it.

restart journaling, at least 2x a week-ish, but not in an obsessive record keeping way

start doing 1x/month photo organization from phone, deleting screenshots, etc

finish travel journals/scrapbooking organization, a little bookbinding :-)

do my prelims but for real

de-bald my cat :-( if I can. if it's possible.

go to Seattle to visit my friends while they're still out there

buy more music from bandcamp! I did bandcamp Friday twice last year and I want to do it again for more stuff. and pirate the rest as needed but try to support some smaller artists with the money I'm not giving spotify right now

keep tweaking neocities website; make sure that I have a non-online backup saved of all the images etc on my hard drive, and finish archiving all the old entries onto here

take intro korean!

Listening

I've been listening to the Touhou soundtrack again, mostly Akyu's Untouched Score (the music from the PC-98 games). I'm growing quite fond of the fun sounds the PC-98 is able to make.

Watching

Not much. This week's Garbage Time episode was pretty fun, though.

Playing

Mostly fallow. A little bit of Pokemon TCGP here and there, but I've primarily been doing level editing in my spare time (more on that in the making section).

Making

I am continuing to chip away at my TSAC region project. I started work on TSAC's leg/underhang/wall, though I haven't quite gotten used to The Exterior's style yet. It's a lot of experimentation... some of the tiles are very confusing to use. Though, I did make a functional region gate between the structure interior/exterior, so that's progress! Here's a preview of one room:

I also figured out how to use RegionKit to make custom backgrounds, so I've been playing around with that.

This is still very rough and requires some tweaking, but I like it so far.

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