about a week before october hit, i saw a post from loren about getting ready for weird web october. this was the third one to be organized (shouts out to jay) but my first time participating. i wish i had written down at the start why i wanted to try it out - i guess i was just in the right headspace at the time it came across my radar - but i'm very glad that i did it because it gave me a morning routine where i got to use and share my brain in a developery way that i hadn't since the late glitch days.
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technology etches mistakes in stone but it can't undo it, make it make sense! it's going to get resolved because i did the work and kept my cool, blah blah blah until the next time but for now welcome to the retro.
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last night on the way to lisa's to hand out candy, i stepped on a huge crack in a broken curb and it jammed my leg up. if i haven't been lifting weights and walking regularly, i feel like that misstep would have really fucked me up. fortunately after a few miles walking on the treadmill, my hip seems less mad at me. anyway, you asked! welcome to the retro...
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welcome to the penultimate episode of this season of my 'what i made in my ceramics class' series. this would be my fourth wheel-throwing class, the third retake with this instructor/day/time. it was during this class that the studio experienced a kiln malfunction which impacted some of my work but i learned a lot from the experience.
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this year i'm hosting friendsgiving and for the first time in years i managed to order a tofurkey roast in time. i spent $39 for it to be shipped in a cold pack quickly. the night it is supposed to be delivered i get a call from a man in a high rise a mile away from me. he says my boxes was delivered to him and that he'd leave it at the front desk for me to get...
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this was one of the, maybe, 4 weeks in the year that i felt really good physically and mentally together. i was hoping that using my little energy to go out to inspiring spaces would help me get up to a few more good weeks. we'll see, i'm hopeful after this last one!
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this week was one of those "do the bare minimum" kinds, where i'm feeling super disconnected because of a post-menstrual depressive episode. thanks to the work i've been doing at setting routines and saying "yes" to things, i had lots of things to do to try to reconnect with myself besides rotting on the couch.
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i sit here with my entire core sore after i went to aerial yoga on friday. upstairs that night was a weird ass scientology leader conference. that's life in the city, you can be doing crunches while hanging upside down in a silk hammock and just a stairwell away some old people are plotting some kind of sinister shit. anyway, welcome to my weekly retro!
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i'm drinking a baja blast as i write this, unsponsored and unbothered after 2 nights in a row of sleeping through without waking up to heartburn and a sneeze and cough attack. pumagreg is cone-free, i am symbolically cone-free, and writing this retro has helped me remember what a crazy week i managed to function through.
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as i write this, i'm watching pumagreg cleaning himself for the first time in a week, having just removed his cone. what a feeling that must be for him, regaining the ability to act on his animal brained instinct of cleaning his ass. i wish some of the men in my gym had that instinct for wiping the equipment they use down when they're done.
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