• bald eagle
• crows
  • lots of them but shoutout to my crow brothers (the three my mom feeds every day), feather, len, and gar
    • we have a new crow brother! i believe mom called him al
    • ok she tried al but ultimately started calling him what i thought was augie, but it's apparently OG, short for "other guy"
• pigeons
  • actually i haven't seen any yet this year but i did see a really cute one in a dream so i'm counting it. it was small and round and looked like it would fit nicely in my cupped hands
    • apparently this is a good omen so i will ...

• 0125
  • current plants: peppers (nearly killed but may have caught them in time?), echeveria (desperately needs to be beheaded), snake plant bambino (doing fine)
  • seeds ordered for summer: st. john's wort, rue, blue vervain, purple toadflax
  • also planning: dill; possibly garlic chives, borage, forget-me-not, earl grey gladiolus, foxglove, fennel
  • packets of pollinator wildflower mix on hand (for seedbomb purposes): 1

movies

• 0209: lisa frankenstein
• 0419: abigail
• 0809: borderlands
• 1225: nosferatu
• tba: the crow

music

• 0112 kid cudi
• 0126: frank carter & the rattlesnakes
• 0202 kmfdm
• 0209: chelsea wolf
• 0216: laura jane grace, mother mother, idles
• 0223: amigo the devil, mgmt
• 0308: kim gordon, moor mother, judas priest, bleachers, sonata arctica
• 0322 cakes da killa
• 0412: james
• 0419 cadence weapon
• 0426: st. vincent, alien ant farm

• 0111 - new moon
• 0112 - mercury at greatest western elongation
• 0125 - wolf moon
  • oooooh she is BIG and ORANGE
• 0209 - new moon
• 0224 - snow moon
• 0310 - new moon
• 0320 - vernal equinox
• 0324 - mercury at greatest eastern elongation
• 0325 - worm moon, penumbral lunar eclipse
• 0408 - new moon, total solar eclipse!
• 0423 - pink moon
• 0506-07 - eta aquarids
• 0508 - new moon
• 0509 - mercury at greatest western elongation
• 0523 - flower moon

april

• nan's birthday
  • sooooo many relatives i haven't seen in 20+ years greeting me by name and i was just like "hey... you......"
  • they are all great tho i love them. the genes are just too strong tho and i can't tell anyone apart
  • baby j feeding me crackers
  • sneaking into the employees-only basement with my mom bc she snuck in there with my uncle the other day to look at the antique toaster
  • literally the coolest venue i've ever been in, what a spot
  • me and l frantically jamming buttons on the fancy keurig trying to get coffee made for some feral old ladies
  • my aunt to the two 95-year-old and 100-year-old guests: can i get you some sandwic...

nice things received

• new year's art/mail from b that made me tear up
• new year's fortune from my fav artist
• extremely beautiful back patch that arrived in the nicest envelope i've ever seen

mail to send

• thank you mail to e and a
• letters to s, b, b, f
• card to a
• mail to f and k

orders currently waiting on

• eggbug!! (eta: early june?)

• ✔ nan's birthday setup
  • backed out of doing this and just like. that john mulaney joke about cancelling plans being like heroin in terms of instant relief. yeah
• ✔ fill out presentation info spreadsheet
• ✔ finish presentation slides
  • ugly but DONE (except for how i'm gonna spend the next three days tweaking them)
• ✔ email c
• ✔ thank you notes
• ✔ nan's birthday party
  • this was. so much lmfao
• ✔ methods assignment
• ✔ messaging assignment
  • one class DONE, one to go!
• ✔ zoom meeting with c

• ✔ dentist appt
• ✔ dollar store run
• ✔ return overdue library book
• giant grocery run
• doctor appt
• get iron levels checked
• tattoo booking
• confirm housesitting gig for june
• confirm halifax travel dates with nan + my cousin
• figure out texas trip
• ✔ discuss summer travel with c
• organize laptop files
• back up laptop
• IT ticket for macbook issues
• schedule eye exam
• buy a new microwave
• clean!!!
• haircut
• follow up on conference volunteering
• laundry. oh my god so much laundry

april

• future primitive, sum 41
  • god i almost hate to say it but this whole album is my top of the year so far. fuckin banger with TWENTY songs and ZERO skips, and this is the standout track for me
  • that fuckin. the pennywise vibes, the lagwagon vibes, the offspring vibes, this song came out in 2024 and yet it somehow IS my favorite song from the tony hawk pro skater 2 soundtrack and i DO get sad and disappointed every time the level ends and i have to stop listening and also i have to stop being bucky lasek
  • the ENDING the there's nothing no sound hits so HARD i'm fuckin. look i'm gonna be real i'm gonna write this up when i start doing my aoty ranking and it's gonna get embarrassing real fast when i start actually digging into the nostalgia

january

• futurama
  • i have never really liked it but apparently the trick was to start from the very beginning. like who would have thought
• one piece
  • (the netflix one)
  • have never watched the anime or read the manga but like i'm still very impressed at how it's like. been condensed i guess? a lot of my friends familiar with the source material were annoyed and i'm kinda side-eyeing. but like i get it, i would be annoyed if netflix adapted inuyasha. i've annoyed myself just by having that thought
  • i like melodrama and aesthetic though so these pirates are really doing it for me. i like that you can't be a pirate unless...

currently

• the tombs of atuan, ursula k. le guin
• understanding a photograph, john berger

current library waitlist

• camp damascus, chuck tingle
  • i actually preordered the ebook bc preorders got a free bandana from my favorite artist. but i hate kobo so i'm just gonna read it from the library, lmao
• doppelganger, naomi klein
  • me immediately upon seeing her name: if your naomi be klein, you're doing fine. ok good it's the good naomi
    • then reading the summary and laughing til i cried. yeah i gotta read this
• wintering, katherine may

• dragon age ii
  • played so fai would have background noise while trying to get stuff done. made it through the first two acts and probably would have finished with another day which i'm kinda :/ about, i should have fully abandoned my family on christmas eve to have one more day to play dragon age
  • actually. probably would have finished if i hadn't messed up the romances and gone back to an old save just to make sure i could romance fenris. but you gotta do what you gotta do (which is fenris)
  • i missed my kirkwall friends so much. i missed varric so much. inquisition varric hits different. i gotta fix my ps3
• slay the spire
  • on like. year 3 now? of playing the daily challenge whenever i'm home and honestly...

• start date: december 25, 2022
• end date: september 21, 2025
• (previous one ended: december 24, 2022)

list-related

• save $20 for every task i complete
• have another 101 things list ready to go by the end of 1001 days

education & work

• ✔ pass stats
• ✔ graduate
• grad school
  • ✔ start
  • thesis proposal
  • fieldwork
  • write my thesis
  • graduate
• revamp resume
• acquire a small selection of "professiona...

THINGS TO CONTINUE

• enjoying a diverse and abundant selection of entertainment without reaching for consumptive goals (numbered goals like 'read x books in a year' are my enemy here)
  • keeping up my habit of writing out my thoughts on media
• curating an incredibly dramatic yet comfortable wardrobe
• redoing my bedroom and making it a pleasant place to live
• trying out new music frequently instead of falling back into my trap of only listening to the stuff i listened to when i was 20
• keeping habits like flossing and skin care going even when i miss a day or two
• being less ambitious with my gardening and sticking to what works

NEW THINGS