july

7 - 20: went on vacation but we're so back

listening

• slayyyter dance
• duran duran best hits (union of the snake)
• emei night at the opera full album, titular track the best one imo, the rest don't stick in my brain

reading

• currently reading braiding sweetgrass, neuromancer, and the og iwtv novel! triple stack rn of serious book, classic scifi, and little treat
• confessions of a former bastard cop: thanks officer a cab. well written.
• are you enjoying our linguine (francesco pacifico) courtesy of girlfriendofthegalaxy, i have tried very very hard to avoid being That tourist but there is a level of inavoidability just by Being A Tourist
• The Tearoom as a record of risky business (robert yang): so many types of game out there. thanks tez from the tertiary location
• uhhh fatphobia/glp1 content warning for these, the drug that made me want less (caroline calloway) and followup how glp1s feed our sick culture (jessica grose) (archive link). it's bad. there's fatphobia in the nyt article as well be warned
• wikipedia article on the sokal affair
• true crime is rotting our brains: i was a mfm girlie from like....2016-2019ish? maybe? fell off the true crime podcast wave many many years ago and some of the thoughts about it as a genre coming up recently definitely ring true. also read the same author's thing about how she got stabbed.

watching

• last two the vampire lestat episodes and behind the scenes stuff as well. not gonna lie gang, i don't think it's good! i enjoyed the season in a junk food kind of way but i do not anticipate paying for amc+ when the next season comes out like i did for this one. the music was fun and good but besides that it was not nearly as strong or compelling as iwtv was.
• many misc youtube. why the ocean sucks smartypants dropout

playing

• fallow

making

• more closed form jars...idk i'm not feeling these specific ones so no pics :\
• i've had an old dress forever and ever that i haven't been able to wear because the elastic sewn into the back was all stretched out so i finally finished picking out all the old busted elastic and sewed some scrap fabric on in channels to thread new elastic through. i need more elastic BUT it's wearable again! yay!
• rem pillow sewing project! i will never ever play deadlock but those characters were made in a lab to appeal to me specifically. just a normal star but i'm doing it with cute night sky themed fabrics to channel the pillow that that lil goblin guy carries

  

• finishing up a market bag crochet project for friend, pics next week
• working on typesetting blindsight for printing out....baby's first bookbinding project :eyes:

eating

• kani salad
• pickled some radish greens
• made maangchi's japchae, yum
• GREAT sourdough loaf success. however it's a little flat on top because i don't have a dutch oven so i put a baking tray over the top of the loaf as directed for the first bit of baking and it. well. did continue to rise. and just pressed up against the baking tray lol. but it's delicious so i'm happy

misc

• took a 10 day vacation in seattle that overlapped with the first two tuesdays of july! but we're back and better than ever, i had a wonderful time :3

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