2026-01-03 08:00:00
“Unproductive” in this context refers to my many creative projects I wanted to tackle over the holidays. Instead of working on them, I spent a lot of time hanging out with people. As someone who is unpleasantly introverted, I usually do not like hanging out with people that often. I would rather be at home! But it was good, and I was happy, and there is time in January to do what I wanted to do.
Unsexy Emoji (0) to Sexy Emoji (100), where would you put the luggage emoji? My answer: 40.I’m thinking maybe I should lower/shift my ambitions for my planned blog posts. At some point it becomes more of a hindrance, expecting myself to do something high-effort in a certain way while I can feel my interests shifting. There are many paths to creative fulfillment!
Anyway, I return to work in a couple of days, which is dreadful, but that’s how it goes. I hope I can finish up my blog post drafts this month :-)
2025-12-27 08:00:00
I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them. I thought it might be fun to compile them all here so that they’re not lost to the sands of time.
In February (February! geez) I had the idea to write a recap framed by the fashion of xyz, which I excitedly posted about and then never touched again. I still like the idea and hope to return to it some day!
In August, I thought about doing a low-effort (writing-wise) weeknotes layout structured like a calendar. Retro.app is structured like this and I think it’s really effective for showing a weekly overview.
I did something similar in October 2024 for Weird Web October’s day #4 prompt “Lists.” (Wow, it took me a moment to find this page because it’s utterly unfindable, lol. Also my WWO archive somehow still uses my old site version 6 layout. Perhaps I’ll leave it like that as a little snapshot, haha.)
Back in February I started Yuhki Demers’ visdev cityscapes class and made barely any progress. Embarrassing! I want to finish it this year (preferably, in the next couple of months).
This is from 2024, but I actually wrote what would have been “Weeknotes 20” as a tiny zine, photographed it, put it into a blog post, and decided it wasn’t good enough to post.
Well, I’m dropping it here now. A fun detail I can pick out is that this must have been shortly after I acquired my f/1.4 camera lens, haha.
(here is what weeknotes 20 actually turned out to be)
I got back into Stardew Valley in the summer/fall, and was motivated enough to start writing a farm tour post. Then I went on vacation, and then Hades II came out, and I forgot about it. Perhaps I can still pull something together though, even if it’s more screenshots than writing as I initially planned.
Some screenshots, originally posted to Mastodon in September:
This is published, but pretty much a work-in-progress still. I hope to fill it out more this year.
Since my 2024 post about my Eleventy setup, I’ve redesigned my site and restructured my templates. I’ve started working on an updated post, but this languished and was forgotten. I want to finish it sometime in the next couple of months!
I briefly tried creating a font out of my own handwriting, which was fun! I want to spend more time on that next year, which will take some work since I think I’ll need to learn how to use more complex software to do the ligatures and things that I want.
I try not to complain too much on social media because I know that it’s mostly just unproductive. There are more worthwhile things to spend my energy doing. But of course, sometimes the compulsion to write something mean is too strong to resist—especially when I’ve repeatedly encountered something frustrating. Perhaps I’ll compile these every year and it will form some kind of interesting anthropological look for future readers (me) at the modern issues that plague us (me).
Anyway, here are my drafts, which is complaining and a bit of shitposting.
I wrote these in a big text file.
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2025-12-13 08:00:00
and other things I’m thinking about
It’s nice to return to this format after a while. I don’t feel the need to adhere to my previous structure. I sat down and wrote this in less than an hour, which is very freeing.
2025-11-02 08:00:00
2025-09-30 08:00:00
