Weeknotes #7

Life

My dad got back from his trip, so cluttering has slowed down since I can no longer use his room as extra space while I sort through stuff. He didn't bring back a lot of souvenirs other than some snacks from Narita airport, which is probably for the best since he knows my mom and I have to get rid of stuff. I'm pretty proud of the progress I made! Being able to move around in my room without stepping on stuff is good, actually.

I also need to remember to do my taxes. Usually I'm pretty hype about them because I get nice return, but last year's was kinda disappointing so I guess I've been putting it off lol.

School

Another kinda weird week. The same professor who had to cancel last week canceled again this week. Another professor had a...thing so had to cancel. The thing in question is pretty interesting but also specific enough that you'd probably be able to find the professor with a single Google search, so I won't go into detail.

Weird scheduling aside, preparation for midterms in here, and then Spring break next week! I'd really like to do something fun for spring break, but I don't have any ideas (or money.)

I also need to remember to make an appointment with my academic advisor. Getting close to graduation, and would really like to be done by next winter semester.

Website

My links look so bad when I post a link from here to Bluesky, I decided to add some OpenGraph info the the site head. I didn't really want to figure out how to do a dynamic image right now, so I just set it to the logo of the site.

Also my frontend tooling is kinda a mess so I'm re-doing some of that. It was actually less of a mess than I thought so I redid a lot for no real reason, but relearning what the fuck I was doing will help for the future, so I won't consider it a waste.

Next thing I want to do is add a lightbox gallery component. That will be useful for both the OC pages and dedicated gallery pages that I want to add eventually.

Reading/Watching/Gaming

Watched episode 32 of the Apothecary Diaries and episodes 9-11 of Lycoris Recoil with Lily as per tradition. I feel like next week Maomao might finally figure out Jinshi's whole deal, she probably could've figured it out by now, but whenever she gets into thinking about, she stops herself lol. And for LycoReco Majima is ending up to be a more interesting villain than I thought from when he was first introduced. I really liked the use of sound in episode 11.

After we finish LycoReco next week, we'll start something new. I'm thinking Brave Bang Bravern since I've seen it compared to Samurai Flamenco a lot (Samumenco my beloved.)

Still playing through scenario C of Linda Cube. While the time limit felt like a minor side concern in the previous scenarios, you can really feel its presence now with major characters leaving the planet and shops closing up. I also forgot to save and ended up losing progress on catching some hard to catch animals so I'm taking a break now ;-;

Around the Web

Uhhh guys I didn't do my homework for this section this week..... Have some Tumblr blogs I enjoy following I guess.

A Thylacine's Toybox: Plushie collector and creator who also does repairs and modifications that are neat to see.

Have You Been Here: A blog that posts user-submitted polls to different places around the world asking if you've been there or not.

Herps and Birds: A blog dedicated to the appreciation of non-mammal animals.

SEOBot: Not actually a bot. A curated collection of funny AI slop content from sketchy SEO-bait websites.