Apr 19: What did I do this week?
2026-04-19
Song of the week: Made In Heights - Death
Emoji of the moment: 🕶️
Abandoned Drawabox
Or maybe decided to be done early. I think I'm not going to get that much out of the rest of it, which is basically just a lot of practicing constructional drawing of different kinds of things, and I understand the idea of that and also I'm increasingly certain that I'm on more of a painting arc. But so now I will simply modify my goal of doing Drawabox exercises every day this year to instead be doing art every day this year, and I am keeping up with that so far. Thanks to drawing all those boxes, I'm quite sure I can do it.
Finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
I quite liked it! Recommended if you want to read a sci-fi story where an autistic* agender ex-soldier is on a quest to kill someone for mysterious reasons. The narrator narrates like the reader is from the book's universe and doesn't need terms explained to them, so it can be a little unclear what things are until you can figure it out from further context, which I think is fun.
In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I was—even, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I had worked as a cook, a janitor, a pilot. I had settled on a plan of action. I had joined a religious order, and made a great deal of money. In all that time I only killed a dozen people.
That's one of the smallest numbers of people you can kill!
* Not explicitly autistic; I just find the narrator's speech patterns and the way they insist on not having emotions while acting as though they do to be very relatable and easy to read that way.
Started The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Now this lady can write. Very hard to put down.
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Moved tiny monitor
I got a little 7" display with a built-in speaker back in September, figuring it would be good to have next to my bed to watch stuff while stuck there all day and that it would also be useful as a third monitor at my computer desk when I feel better. It was indeed great to have during my stuck-in-bed story arc, and I'm now considering that arc to be over, so into third monitor mode it has gone.
Discovered something deeply silly to spend €25 on
Stay tuned! For at least two weeks, probably more!
