Shit I Did Last Month #001
You know some people manage to write blog posts once a day? Sometimes more. Jesus Christ.
Anyway, this last month has been -- from my perspective -- an endless haze of mostly-okay-ness. Today is Krang Day, (mark it on your calendars) and it's the least remarkable so far, I think. I don't know, I couldn't tell you anything about the previous Krang Days other than the fact that they were Krang Days. Next year I'll buy a cake. Birthday's in a few days. I don't really feel anything about it. Anyway, on to slightly less depressing subjects! Here's some of the positive things that happened to me last month ("happened to me"? locus of control much?) in no particular order:
1. started a blog
You'd never guess just by reading this blog, but I did in fact start it. Primed entirely by Lilly "mothcub" Ashton via a YouTube video (I don't have personal relationships with cool people), I started this blog to do... something. Something about masturbation? I don't remember. Two actual posts and one mental breakdown later, it's looking fine so far. I don't really see the point, I'm not an interesting person, but then again I don't see the point in most things. Nobody really gives a shit so far, and that's fine by me. It's like the initial period of growing a new social media account; Being able to take shits in the void and be certain that almost no one will ever have to witness it is freeing, especially since I'm too stupid to just write in a personal journal. I know no one else is going to read it, but not even I want to read or write pages of "Today was fine." There's a reason I make two actual posts a month so far. My actual life is fucking boring.
2. learned bartitsu
Bartitsu is wacky in a really good way. The fencing club I've been in for over a year(!!) now started teaching classes on it, and it definitely caught my eye. It's essentially self-defense for Victorian dudes, inspired by many martial arts from taekwondo to Italian saber combat. It's got canes, joint locks, boxing, kicks, grappling, and even a standing arm bar introduced as a gentlemanly way to escort your drunk buddy out of the building. It's very cool, and got me pretty excited about self-defense, both historically and contemporarily.
3. made one of those stupid gaslight edits
Yeah, one of these. Haven't got anyone to watch it with me yet. It's kind of funny. Maybe. I guess.
4. actually read quite a lot about different things online
I recently rediscovered the work of Nicky Case, who I originally learned of quite a few years ago in the wake of Markiplier's Let's-Play of :the game:. She's made much more meaningful things since then, such as her work with Hack Club on aisafety.dance, a resource on the history, function, and ethical implications of so-called artificial intelligence. It's very good, go read it. I've also absorbed a lot of her work on mental health, most of which is really frighteningly relatable to me. Like everything else that could help me, I've completely forgotten most of it except as shallowly internalized key-points in the perpetual rock tumbler I've made of my mind-palace. Mental health is fucking obnoxious and I don't like thinking about it.
Anyway, she also got me interested in RSS feeds, which are really cool and useful. Go subscribe to some RSS feeds. Not mine, I don't have one.
5. moved... i guess???
Saved the biggest point for last because I'm... really not sure how I feel about this. Apartment's smaller but it doesn't feel like the actual space I have is all that smaller. I didn't spend much time outside of my room at the other home anyway. New school is a whole lot of deja-vu. I got burnt pretty bad expecting it to be vastly different; As it turns out, most of my problems with my old school can be neatly extrapolated to high school in general. So, I'm completely fucked for the next year and a half of my INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT education. I keep having to do double-takes after I think I recognize someone. Don't worry, I'm not completely repulsed by other people, I just feel like they have every right to be repulsed by me. I try to be friendly and funny and sociable nonetheless. This shit is haaaaaaard.
That's all the major stuff I can remember right now. This month, I'll write this shit down like a sensible person (no I wont)
On to the lightning round:
The only book I read this month was Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury. It's a good collection of short stories I looted out of my dad's basement. It got beat the fuck out of from sitting in my jacket pocket for a month, so I finally decided to mercy-kill it this evening The last five are some of the best, except for The Miracles of Jamie. No idea what that one was about. Sorry, Ray! Guess you just couldn't take the heat!
I listened to a track by a Las Vegas joint called Spring Breeding that I like a whole lot. I've yet to listen to the rest of their discography, but so far it seems like nothing they've got holds up to that one track. I mean, come on, two cowbells? That's, like, ten out of five stars already!
Bands/musicians/whatever you call 'em I got into this January, in whatever order I thought of them first:
1. A Tribe Called Quest
2. Photek
3. fIREHOSE
4. Ampere
5. Born Against
6. Herbie Hancock
7. Kenny Clarke
8. Antioch Arrow
Surprisingly less than I thought it would be, actually. Anyway, did you know Brainiac was on an AmRep comp once? Crazy.
what i want to do THIS month
Probably won't happen, but a guy can hope to do something cool once in his life, right? Maybe? Please?
1. learn to play euchre
I don't play enough card games, and it looks neat. I've always wanted to sit down and get really good at one game specifically, so maybe this one's it.
2. learn to write shorthand
Supposedly, it's very useful. I'd love to be able to write faster. Who knows, it could come in handy. Of the popular styles, I like the look of Gregg the most.
3. read three books
Not a whole lot, but it's three times what I managed in January. I have some massive stacks of books I've been meaning to read, but I'm thinking next up in the queue are Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Robots And Empire by Isaac Asimov.
4. finish a short story
I kind of already did do this one in a manic frenzy last week. I don't know how it happened, I just sat down at the computer and it did. The concept is neat, but it's a little dull and ends weakly, so I'm not going to share it just yet, Fuck You. I've already got some ideas for more that I might shit out sometime this month.
5. NEVER KILL MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, after this goes public I'll be celebrating Krang Day some more by listening to their "vast" "disc"ography yet again, while I pray for a busy schedule this month.
Nobody reads this shit lmao
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