seabound | 23 Sept 2026

I know I said that real cards would have to wait, but I had a rough week and going to ye olde game shoppe and learning the basics of MTG with a very patient and helpful fellow was just what I needed. So now I have a foundations Commander set thing from the sci-fi spaceship series. I'm still mostly playing Arena, though, because I can't get to the shop on their more casual TCG nights, and my husband has zero interest in playing. I’m excited to go (deeper lol who am I kidding—I am a millenial with bot finished and unfinished graduate degrees) into debt buying cards and unnecessary accessories for this game[...]

cheese action | 17 Sept 2026

Today I took a day off from my usual hustling and bustling to decompress from having my parents up here. I lounged about, read some comics and manga (Absolute Martian Manhunter vol. 1 and re-reading vol. 2 of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon). Continued with Strange Weather in Toyko (about halfway through) and finally started Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home, which I've been meaning to read forever. Yesterday I finished Jane Marie's Selling the Dream, which was a fun (though in a what-even-is-this-hellscape way), unabashedly biased history of MLMs and their place in our communities/lives. I enjoyed it, though it was a bit repetitive at points.

I took the day off from exercise as well, which was harder to do than I thought, but that's not that surprising given how problematic my Thing with exercise can be. But I have decided, I think, that I'd like to start rollerskating again, so when I have the funds I'm going to the shop to get new skates so I can wobble around my neighborhood instead of walking once in awhile[...]