Weeknotes 001

4 January 2025

Wanted to attempt doing my version of weeknotes, but so I'll see if this is really useful or not... This was originally posted on my mataroa blog which I use for my professional life, but I realized I'd rather post them here. It gives me more of a reason to use neocities!

Life

• Celebrated my birthday on December 27th. It was very lowkey, as usual with my family and my birthday being during the holidays.
• Got sick on December 30th with a sore throat. Slowly recovering as I write this, but it's really these unidentifiable things that get you!
• Doing a lot of New Year's cleaning and planning, still working out that yearly theme.
• Been successfully doing "one line a day" journaling for most days since December 30th. I'm trying a new system for my monthly pages in my Hobonichi Weeks.

Work

• Mostly brainstorming ways to make my work a little more efficient...
• Also trying to brainstorm more concrete goals, but I have a tendency to work way more than I need to, so I'll probably try to cut back on pushing so many hours into my weekend.

Reading, watching, & playing

• I've been reading through Amitie and the Mysterious Egg for Japanese learning and The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming An Individual in the Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford for "fun".
• I started watching BanG Dream! It's MYGO!!!!!" and am pleasantly surprised at the directing quality. The music and art style are about as mediocre as I remember, though.
• I was playing Ensemble Stars!! Music regularly until the recent event story. I won't get into the details, but I'm very disappointed at the company for this decision and I am unsure if I will continue dedicating time to it the same way I have the last 2-3 years.