📰 weekly reporter

vol 24 week of 06/22-06/28

reflecting — enjoying — playing — obsessing — recommending — treating — encountering — restoring — stats report — editors recap — summer discussion — on writing — media recap —

— reflecting

this week's considerations were mostly about how to deal with school anxiety and working hard again. I think I touched on this last week, but I just... haven't been working hard enough. I've been struggling with committing to things for a couple years now, and I feel like it's finally coming back to bite me in the ass. how am I spending my time? what am I working on? what am I doing? what can I talk about meaningfully every week? am I even trying to write well?
I'm working on developing some friendships and I feel like.... I have all these conflicting ideas of who I am and how I want to present myself. I try to keep the extreme nerdiness under wraps for irls, I have this blog, I want to present myself one way for work, one way for school, one way for friends, and I haven't quite figured out the balancing act of managing all these facets of my identity. I used to feel bad that I was putting on acts for different aspects of life, but they ask for different parts of me- it isn't inauthentic to present certain traits and not talk about others.
thinking again about what to put in the second page of reporter. I have a couple ideas for now.. but I almost wonder if I should leave it on the backburner until a little later when there are actual pieces to fill up the page. I'd also like to design some other templates to put in there depending on what I do during the week.

— enjoying

after my thursday class, we were all saying to each other: "enjoy your summer!" the weather was nice and we had gotten out early since our final was a big group negotiation, that was resolved relatively quickly and peacefully. I finished the last of my homework today, and then I have a final presentation tomorrow and I'm free until August. I do need to register for Fall classes, and start studying for the lsat again... but I'm excited it actually feels like summer. this week is a short week- we are closed on friday and we are only working a half day on thursday. I got all my work done on friday, so I feel like it really is a lovely start to my summer.

— playing

during facetime with my best friend, they said "there's a new character in hsr I think you'd like," and I looked at her pretty sheepishly asking who it was and when she said "phainon" I just laughed so so hard... maybe phainon will be the reason I return to hsr... I think I already missed the ratio rerun so there goes my aventio build kit but its fineeeeeeee....
finally got lemurian sea god!! his kit is making me want to actually learn the best way to play the battles and how to read protocores for building. I really need to be better about running orbits, and doing abyssal commissions and hunter contest. I also need to use galaxy explorer to fill out some of the freebie cards I have missing in my deck...
the next banner is a multi and its wedding themed! its also coinciding with 4.0 update! everything is very very pretty and there's a ton of new rewards and features I'm looking forward too.

— obsessing

hoping to make this summer productive in terms of creative projects... so I've been thinking about a mid year recap/monthly recap post... more outlines for goals. thinking about my hobonichi, craft projects, the website.. blah blah blah ideas ideas ideas.
there's a couple of kickstarters I'm thinking about backing, so much lads merch I want to buy...

— recommending

this account is really cute and has been inspiring me as far as like hobonichi journaling. read and enjoyed this article and I'm considering adding the books to my reading list

— treating

mom made filipino food and cookies this week! very tasty leftovers.
the trivia group went out to main event on monday, and we did bowling and laser tag. I got one strike!!! and ended up in like 3rd or 4th place. I also set off a chain of everyone taking pictures like super close to their face so the scoreboard was full of us all zoomed in it was hilarious. we did two rounds of laser tag and tbh I SUCKED!!!! but it was super fun- we were a huge group so you'd turn a corner and someone was there so I pretty much just camped the whole time.

— encountering

felt very very anxious all week last week. really barely did anything but work and go to school... I did manage to clean my room and get all my homework done today though! there's still a pile of laundry to wash....
in other news, my car broke down on thursday too T_T its in the shop and hopefully it doesnt cost an arm and a leg......

— restoring

yesterday was the first time I went to the gym all week... so I was super off. tired, anxious, pre-workout caffeine deprived.. no wonder I felt so weird all week. but my workouts today and yesterday were great!! i hit a pr on squats today yay!

💢 tried to make draggable boxes the other night and it was Not Working.

📊 stats report

—last week's goals
☇ bring back bitesized: 2/7 days
☑ finals week
☑ make sure I'm eating

—3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ mid year recap
☐ register for fall
☐ schedule doc appt

📥 editors recap

there is honestly not much to report on this week. finals took up most of my mental bandwidth and I felt myself longing for the weekend with the classic: "just get through this week"
still haven't settled in on any specific ideas for 2nd page, but I'm considering a weekly comic maybe? eventually, when I have more projects going (~~hopefully~~ this summer will finally be the summer of projects!) I can have a greenhouse missive/project update log, it would be nice to have a weekly writing stats update as well... maybe I'll try to make it a point to take pictures/source memes for the lower section. in my mind, i'd like a quote of the week at the top, the middle section dedicated to project updates and the media recap, and then the lower section for photos of some kind. here on page one, the obvious reporter section, a middle highlights section for other posts, or a random thought/frustration of the week, then the stats report, and editors note. I'm also considering cutting the section entirely UNLESS I specifically have stuff to report on? considerations considerations.
wanting to make a prettier intro, and I'd like to use the polaroid look? or maybe a business card look? I've been itching to do more coding projects, but I don't know what direction I want to take the intro. as highlighted above, I've been trying to make an intro page code for my gwarentz accounts... but draggable javascript is not beginner friendly. I also felt like the code was just shitty looking so I gave up all frustrated on friday night.
was thinking about making some of this text a dedicated section on page two, specifically regarding template updates but its fine in the editors letter. I dont know how many times I'll actually talk about this... but it is making me consider a bunch of plug and play layouts for different topics as they make appearances perhaps! I was thinking about updating the banner bar at the top to reflect the contents of the newspaper, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to shorten down the reporter section.... would the title look silly with a smaller reporter underneath? that as my main concern.
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As June runs into warm July, I think of little else but you. - Wendy Cope, Summer Villanelle

Summer 2025 Discussion

1. What’s outside the window?
my window looks out at an outbuilding we have for storage. theres a fence that pokes right into the middle of my window, around the air conditioning unit. there's a big leafy tree to the right, and our tiny set of blackberry bushes to the right, and across the yard. I see the back gate, and the burn pit where we roast marshmallows in the late summer. my dad's old grill stands guard in front of the box, and to the grill's left, a tool cabinet slowly being overtaken by some viney weed. this is the wild corner of the yard, where the girls (yuki and lola, our shih tsus) like to play and lay when they get too tired. dusk is settling over the yard now, so there's no little birds or squirrels to be seen like earlier in the day.
2. Canoeing
I went canoeing with an old friend a couple years ago... or maybe they were kayaks and I've actually yet to canoe. I'd like to try whatever form of boating again, as I'm stronger than I was. 3. Newsletter
I tell myself that I'll start up a newsletter when I get a little more tech independent, based on this guide. I'd like to make a business card with this website when I get it up and running too. although, isnt the weekly reporter a bit of a newsletter too? 4. Family dinner
on friday, my brother came over to tell us about his recent promotion, and swim in the pool. I showed up late to this impromptu party, but it was only because I had work. we had pizza, breadsticks, pasta, and wings. my brother is so funny, and my dad had just come home from a business trip, where he got to fly back in first class and got bombed on vodka and lack of lime. it was a warm friday night dinner, with the dogs going crazy and the tv playing whatever was on. 5. Summer thunderstorm
out of nowhere, we had a summer thunderstorm yesterday. I felt terrible when I saw the rain, because dad had hung some laundry out to dry and then it was drenched. the girls wanted to go play in the rain (because they seem to love getting wet) and lola tried to take a swim, so I had to drag her out of the water as the thunder rumbled nearby.

prompts courtesy of nosebleed club

i like the summertime because i feel like i am returning to a version of myself that only exists from may–august but she is always the same person each time and i like being her and seeing the world through her eyes again

- courtesy of butterflypeaflowertea

on writing
been thinking about some of the things I'd still like to write that I got tired of copying and pasting into reporter every week with no progress:
🖉 24 week clay retrospective
🖉 goals doc......
🖉 coolness theory 3 parter
🖉 oc intros
🖉 greenhouse missive/intro
and I'm thinking about an old notion page I had dedicated to writing.. and some of the goals I tracked within in. I'd like for dreamwidth to be more than just weekly reporter, but I get so hung up on making these good, instead of just making them be... so I want to try and change that this summer. so many backlogged projects. i miss writing more.

media recap

📚 reading:
📺 watching:
🎵 listening:
🎮 playing: love and deepspace merling oath event

I really want to watch kpop demon hunters and the new season of the bear... I want to start reading noragami or fma... need to catch up on stars of chaos, and coins of destiny, plus do an inventory of what manga and danmei i have on the shelf... I think I've overdue for my yearly rewatch of weathering with you too.... I also have been meaning to check out apothecary diaries.. sigh. I probably need to do a dedicated list to everything in the backlog. not to mention the games.......

congrats to pom purin for winning no. 1!!!!!!

what was the Sigh of your week ? (low point)
what was the Swoon of your week ? (high point)
fun little prompt from sighswoon on twitter
sigh: finals week anxiety swoon: treated myself to a piece of cheesecake on monday

been considering using my other twitter account to do some daily posting... thinking about youtube.... thinking about streaming... all things I can add to reporter..... pondering.....

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