9.2.26

Things I have been thinking about recently:

My comic about a maid cafe that unionizes against their boss
my fellowship proposal thats a week away
the doctor thats gonna slice up my heart this month not answering my phone calls
how much I love practicing law v. how much I hate sitting in a classroom

8.27.26

A TSA story for ya'll. I was recently in the airport traveling with a cat. I had a collaspable litterbox and a ziploc bag of litter in my backpack. My bag gets flagged by TSA. TSA guy pulls out the bag of litter and asks me "Do you know what this is." I respond, "cat litter, for my cat" (gesture to cat). He says "it set off our sensors." I ask "why." He says "chemicals. our sensors detected chemicals." What chemicals? Baking soda? Its literally tidy cat. He says "step forward, we need to do a full body patdown." Enter TSA agent #2. She says "We have to perform a whole body patdown, including your breasts and groin. Do you want to go to a private room?" My flight leaves in literally 20 minutes. I say "no." She proceeds to grope me for literally five minutes. With her hand on my groin, she asks "what do you have down here?" I am literally like "Im wearing period underwear, you are literally feeling my underwear." She looks pissed off. Finally, she lets me go. TSA guy #1, with the emptied contents of my backpack on the table says "we didnt find anything we're free to go." I look at him for a second, unsure if I can actually go touch my stuff. Then he's like "what, do you want me to pack it up for you?" Tf. Its way too early for all of this. They throw my litter in the trash and we board the plane.

8.18.26

Getting through to the application stage means that you actually have to write the application...sigh

8.3.26

Plans for the rest of the summer: less youtube rotting, more bar patios

7.23.26

summer days

reading: "kitchen confidential", to each other
eating: melon, rice cakes, raisin bread with whipped cream cheese, pringles shared with a toddler examining our blanket
feeling: sleepy, nostalgic

7.21.26

The smog was really something else last week. I went outside to wipe off the patio table with a wet wipe and was horrified to discover it came up completely black with soot. It was hard to breathe outside for the first two days (someone said breathing the air was like inhaling 10 cigarettes -- sounds incorrect but still evocative) but its mostly lifted by now.

Now im back to inhaling second-hand cigarette smoke instead of wildfire smoke. Like God intended.

7.9.26

artfight is consuming my life, i forgot how fun it is. here are some of my fav attacks thus far:

7.3.26

god i love chicago so much like not to be cheesy but ill turn on pbs and watch the mid-day news where they just talk with different resteruant people and parade organizers and activists and it just makes me feel so proud cause like! i know some of these people! either by name or irl. i know these people and neighborhoods and i just am overwhelmed with love

7.3.26

the sun is trying to kill me

6.27.26

application writing is hard but im harder

6.20.26

'the hot girls are doing this'/'the cool girls are doing that' why is every activity online gendered? can you think of a mianstream influencer that took part in a co-ed activity recently? (besides going out to eat with their husband/wife)

i desperately need adults to make friends of multiple gender

6.18.26

Somehow managed to seriously screw up my foot by slamming it into the fridge door :'( I am very grateful for Chicago Paid Leave and other ordinances like it. Things are always very financially tight, but ordinances like these atleast guarentee I will have rent money for the month.

6.17.26

Coffeezilla has this way of talking that I want to emulate so desperately. I love his interview style and how he redirects conversations when they start to veer off

6.16.26

Schedule-sending emails three months in advance... I am Mr. Productivity

6.12.26

I dont need to get meaner but i do need to court conflict a bit more

6.12.26

Adulthood may also entail calling out guilt tripping instead of just letting it slide. I don't think so lowly of myself as to let others insinuate im a bad person

6.9.26

SONG OF THE CENTURY

6.9.26

worked a double, threw up, then woke up and made banana muffins and egg salad. this adult shit easy

6.4.26

The main takeaways I can remember from getting high are (1) weed does not make me hallucinate, though it will make my internal thoughts as loud as my outer thoughts, (2) getting high makes everything feel more complex (3) any knowledge or insight I can get from experiencing that complexity cannot be used in a non-high state.

6.4.26

Dunno whether or not i want to include my art on this site or create a sister site dedicated to it. miss having an online archive of work, but reluctant because (1) i dont want my site to get flagged as nsfw, (2) i dont want heavy themes to conflict with the relatively light nature of this site, and (3) not sure i want boobs on main

6.3.26

Flagged down by a homeless man today selling magazines. Asked me if I wanted to buy one, I said sorry man, I don't got any money on me. He looked at my baseball jersey and asked me if I was a cubs fan. I said no man, I'm a sox fan. He then told me "thats why you have no money."

5.31.26

sick :(

5.28.26

My mom wasn't feeling well enough for our make-up mother's day dinner, so we brought the good food home to her. One H-Mart shopping trip and a big pot later, we had a fantastic spicy rice cake, mushroom, and sliced beef stew. It was so warm and comforting, and I think the meal (and the squaking voices of her two daughters) made her feel less bad about not being able to go out. I don't think we've laughed that hard in a while...

5.27.26

Just had the best tacos of my life last night with Sam and Nicole. I was originally just going to make a ground beef taco, but Sam ended up bringing us this cajun tilapa instead. For toppings I made a super quick pico de gallo with fresh veggies I got this morning. I also got some bell peppers and special chili seasoning (i forgot the name sorry) to make like a fajita veggie mix on the side. Nicole also picked up this chipotle salsa and canned adobe peppers for some extra spice. Because of nicole's allergies I kept the avacado and sour cream in separate containers. Nicole took on the role of bartender, mixing our housewarming gin with this interesting little spicy lime juice (???) we got from Aldi. Honestly, it was not my favorite on its own, but somehow the alchohol managed to almost cut the weird aftertaste. I tink it also just made it sweeter in a way I really liked.

5.23.26

The move went well. Im still reeling a bit from the chaos of it all. Feeling generally positive. Want to update my blog + outfit diary soon. Gotta pick Marx back up again. etc

5.14.26

I have been considering getting into electronic music making for the last couple months but dont really know where to start. I have been dabbling with garage band but i fear my 2020 ipad is on its last leg. I mostly just want a program I can play with-- nothing to difficult right out the gate. Don't really know where to start. suggestions encouraged lol

5.14.26

Nia Archives Summer NOW

5.1.26

Having a hard time staying focusedon things that aren't immediately pressing.

5.1.26

Happy May Day everyone! If you are able, please contribute to my homies' union's strike fund!

4.29.26

$12 croissant should be illegal. my radical platform

4.28.26

Everyone is so weird and mean to trans women and that includes libs.

4.27.26

My plan for finals prep today: 40 min on, 20 min off (ie neocities editing). Repeat until 6pm.

4.24.26

Watching that new Sarah Z video..... ugh..... we've always been like this, huh.

I appreciate Sarah not ending the video by giving the grifters more spotlight. Instead, she ends it by discussing how important it is to not get too wrapped up in the sob stories and actually use our time and atteintion to try and fix the structural issues. This feels very affirming to me, as "pick a cause and stick with it" has kinda been my motto for the last five years. Can't fix everything, can def do the grunt work though. My favorite line in the video: "The alternative [is] less moving, it's more useful, and no one has to be extrodinary for it to work."

4.23.26

God I am so forgetful nowadays. The organization system I have going right now is just not effective. I need more than just a Tutacalender and sticky notes. I should prob use that beautiful agenda Tab got me from TJMaxx.

4.16.26

Really dragging myself across the floor to write this paper...

4.16.26

I love the sox. God they suck.

4.15.26

Did not realize how much I actually liked my hair until it was gone :(

4.12.26

Signed my first lease ever, can i get a lets go in the chat?

4.7.26

I need to start meal prepping. i need to stop spending $$$

4.7.26

corner bakery = my goat

4.1.26

making an outline for immigration is similar to cooking up some alphabet soup

3.26.26

the spring scaries are getting me

3.20.26

skinny culture is a distraction that is designed to pacify women and divide us upon arbitrary lines and distract us from politics and we're all constantly fallling for it like theres literally wars, genocides, the destruction of social services, the collaspe of judical integrity, known pedophile rings etc etc So why are we falling for the propaganda that THIS is the most important thing we should be worrying about BANGING MY HEAD INTO THE WALL

3.20.26

Im sick of all the diet and weight loss nonsense everywhere

EVERYONE GET MORE FAT AND BALD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

3.16.26

green.

3.13.26

evil summary judgment paper due booooooo

3.9.26

Lovely day with Tab.

3.8.26

trip to aic today-- saw mourning textiles and south korean arts exhibitions. got sushi & chicken afterwards at the little asian spot across the street from the muesem.

3.5.26

I actually need to learn to code fr. I've grown pretty complacent just copy and pasting old bits of code from my other pages and frankenstining something together

2.25.26

If I ever have time again ever I'd love to start some sort of irl neocities coding meet-up-- chill vibes at a cafe and co-working

2.21.26

Wrapping up my first jury trial ever. I feel like I learned more about the rules of evidence in four days than I have in 4 weeks of evidence class. Absolutely exhilarating stuff. I'm very proud of the work me and my team put into this case.

2.6.26

Law school is basically all about learning how to do something you've never done before in 48 hours

2.6.26

I have many updates for yall, the first of which is my slow transition to using a CAT s22 flip phone. Its really clunky and fun to hold but it still has a shitty android OS i have to replace with lineageOS. Im nervous and have been putting it off cause im kinda tech-paranoid but i think it'll be a good learning experience for me. Its always good to have new hobbies to occupy your mind when you are stressed i suppose. plus, this feels like a more creative/productive version of my usual "omg the govt is spying on me through my phone!!11!" fixations. Anyways im excited to show yall the photos this thing takes-- its crunchy in the best way. + the small screen got me listening to shit like Shady Pines Radio or whatever the hell they have in Portland. God I love Radio Garden.

1.23.26

Sick as a dawg

1.22.26

Throughly tired. I'm thinking about taking a class pass/fail. Want to make things easier on myself if possible.

1.9.26

Never Kill yourself

1.8.26