08/2023: a snappy recap

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media consumption and (happier) life updates of this silly year so far.

books

a recent highlight is getting my paws on a kobo e-reader. BOO at Amazon, in general, and kindle, which does not support overdrive/libby in my country. I found that out the hard way after being a silly goose and not doing my due diligence before purchasing. You bet your ass I sped walk back to the tech store before closing ASAP after work. Regardless, the joy of glare-free and ultra-portability reading has me giddy to start reading. Slowly.

italicised books are still in progress.

• Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sarah Hendrickx
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skoot
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
• Breasts: a Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
• System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein

animanga

I won't lie. It's sparse here in terms of keeping up to date. Primarily all manga, entirely all on hold. Here's to the hopefuls, instead:

manga

• My Hero Academia by Horikoshi Kōhei
  • on hiatus: planning to binge the final arcs... (guy who clenches teeth at spoiler panels of shouto)
• Skip and Loafer by Takamatsu Misaki
• Chainsaw Man by Fujimoto Tastsuki
• Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo
• Gokurakugai by Yuto Sano
• Fullmetal Alchemist by Arakawa Himoru
  • I am very slowly but very surely collecting my most beloved. Rereading in the sense I am tenderly flipping through the pages and admiring its physical manifestations in my paws.

anime

• Mob Psycho 100 S3: episode 3 - incomplete
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

film & tv

I don't often watch movies nor television. My attention span dictates watching parties only. Which I want to change because I promise I actually like films.

film

• Glass Onion (2022)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
• Turning Red (2022)
• Baby Driver (2017) - dropped. the romance, and cast, was unbearable to my sensibilities.
• Princess Mononoke (1997) - incomplete
  • I'm serious, there's only 20 minutes left. What is wrong with me.
• M3GAN (2022)
• Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
• Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse (2023)

television

• Bojack Horseman (2014-2020) - as background noise...
• Sex Education - dropped

hopeful medias to consume

• Studio Ghibli films I haven't seen/haven't finished
• Pick back up manga...skip to loafer, chainsaw man, etc.
• Barbenheimer. i'll be honest though, just barbie is really tickling me. But I'm willing to stare into Cilian Murphy's eyes for 3 hours.

life updates, hopefuls

At the very least, I hope to find stability and calm. The daily sleeping into and waking up to gut-bottoming dread is cramping my style. I truly have no idea what the hell I'm doing, but at least I feel accomplished by (unintentionally, forcibly) waking up before 6am, moving my body, and eating more of the foods I can tolerate. I see my friends often now because I need them. And in a way, they need me too. Some people's twenties could topple civilisations...

• Joined a gym! a great sale was on, and I can be a gym buddy with one of my best friends :)
  • yoga class, spin class, step classes trialed out so far
    • my coordination is terrifyingly bad.
• The gym is basically you and some randoms doing parallel play together like this is great. idk why I was ever hesitant of THIS.
• Note to self: ask rock climbing friend about rock climbing
• New job is terrifying me! But I will do it whilst afraid! Missing the ease I had with my previous coworkers!
  • It genuinely makes me feel horrible, but I know I have to give it time and grit my teeth to see how I adapt to it, and how it adapts to me. Remember: you can always hit the fucking bricks!
• Started japanese language class! I'm having a great time!
• Wow...salads are so good. The world of dressings is bright and beautiful. So is banh mi. Drinking a lot of tea and matcha lattes lately because anxiety.
  • note to self: self-indulgent solo salads post

ok bye now!!!!!!!!