Feb 15: What did I do this week?
2026-02-15
Trimmed my hair
I've done it a few times now, and not only have I still not made a mess of it, but I think I'm even getting better at it. I continue to be happy about having this hairstyle that I like enough to maintain. I think it's going to be great together with cute dresses when it gets warmer, too.
Painted my nails
Very long overdue. They're not as long as I like to have them, but they still look pretty. Hopefully I can avoid breaking them for a while.
Took a vacation from social media and Discord
For the most part, anyway. I've been getting annoyed by people a lot lately, to an extent where I think I need to figure out why and do something about it. People in most of my spaces just complain about things so much. I don't know whether it's gotten worse or I've just gotten more sensitive to it.
At the moment, I have Tumblr and Bluesky set to not show me any reposts (making them very slow, but at least not annoying), and I'm paying attention to one Discord server, where people actually prefer to talk about things they like. I think my plan is to keep those where they're at and explore some Matrix communities for fellow turbo computer nerds, where I might at least be annoyed by different things.
Beat Haiku, the Robot
This game is very good! Really easy metroidvania to recommend to anyone. I think Circle of the Moon (with an always run patch) is next.
Drew some more boxes and said something helpful about doing so
Someone asked me to walk them through my mental process with regard to Drawabox because they were having trouble with not enjoying it enough to keep going, and they thought my response was helpful, so here it is for everyone else as well:
Well, I have a long-term mindset. I want to do a million exercises so that I'll get better at making the marks I intend to make, and following the Drawabox plan makes it easier to do that because having faith in this established thing means I'm not bothered by not seeing immediate results. I thought the simplest way to keep myself from eventually slacking off and just never getting around to picking it back up would be to schedule doing Drawabox exercises every day, with the goal of not missing a day this year. In this way, I hope to be pretty good at drawing lines sometime in 2027.
If I weren't enjoying it, I would remind myself that even if I only did one box each day I'd still be done in less than a year, and that the time will pass anyway, and that if I can brush my teeth every day then I can draw some boxes every day, and that Sisyphus is triumphant when he chooses to joyfully accept his fate. I don't need to enjoy it now; I'll enjoy the results of it later. But I do enjoy it, because it's cool and fun to draw some lines and suddenly have them turn into a three-dimensional object, in perspective and everything. It's joyful to freehand what appears to me to be a perfectly straight line, and to later check with a ruler and see that four individual lines I drew all converge. I believe in the process, but I also love the process.
Watched some interesting videos
How Many People Do You ACTUALLY Have to Talk to to beat Disco Elysium?
How Japanese Choose Their Pronoun
A while ago, a random Japanese pronouns picker from a Tumblr post chose this for me, which I thought was very correct: "Warawa (archaic, feminine, regal and royalty vibes)"
Read a good article
I wish I didn't agree with this, because it makes me sad.
