📰 weekly reporter 05.25-05.31

📰 weekly reporter

vol 21 week of 05/25-05/31

⮡   reflecting — enjoying — playing — obsessing — recommending — treating — encountering — restoring — stats report — editors recap

— reflecting

been thinking a lot about writing yay... I want to write well... which means, according to this tweet, is how I'm getting stuck and I think its the truth!!! I think there's also an aspect of self-censoring that I've been struggling with. Admittedly, I've yet to read the full article, but I'm sure it's very good. Anyway.. my thoughts about my writing.
when I first started doing weekly reporter, it was mostly as a challenge to make my life more interesting. I had seen two influencers on instagram doing it, and I figured why couldn't I? the first ones are messy and detailed about the state of my thoughts for that week.. slowly, I found I wanted to refine it more, I wanted it to have a certain polished quality that I found other bloggers(dreamwidthers?) writing with. it's not a bad thing to want well done pieces... but sometimes you have to let go of the idea... hm. sometimes you have to remember what the point is and how much work you are willing to put into it. weekly reporter, and my blog and writing style currently, is focused on stream of consciousness.. and just getting back into writing. however, this desire to refine and create polished works is creeping more and more into what I want to be doing. I find myself wanting to actually push my writing skills into something more than just diary like blogging. there's ideas sitting unwritten in obsidian and I feel the itch to work on them for 1000 words of summer... there's more thoughts about this I'd like to explore.... but I'm kind of tapped out on it for now. adding this too: talking about doing the work.... which is a symptom of the bigger problem I have of.... not being focus... wanting to do too much... not having clear goals.... sigh. more reflections to thinking about I suppose.... more things to write about and try to figure out..... 🔝

— enjoying

I've started up the daily habit of 3 pages of hand written journalling a la the artist way and I've found that there's this desire to chatter all the time. I've been journaling in the evening and find that I wake up wanting to voice log or journal the next morning... I guess I've just really been enjoying writing again..
I've started up my summer classes and they are also very enjoyable so far! I really like the professors for the in person class.. I'm excited for the month of june! 🔝

— playing

the current banner is a xavier focused one and he's sick.... I've yet to pull for it.. as my "lucky time" isn't for a couple days... so I've been saving and catching up on the floral banner cards. I've read Zayne's, Xavier's and finished Rafayel's today.. sigh. I love this game so much. I need to catch up on main story since there was also a pretty big update but I don't mind taking my time on it. now that I think about it... maybe that's why I haven't done any fanfic writing... I just wanna enjoy the game, but I also haven't finished main story... anyway. there's also a limited event going on and its mini game is a match three.. its so addicting.. they had the same mini game for zayne's event a couple months ago and everyone cheered when we saw it was back!!! 🔝

— obsessing

this pen case that I missed out on buying.. but honestly all of the superior labors products... I've also been wanting to start collecting more patches? the superior labor has a cool ass tiger patch that's unfortunately sold out... I also want to buy this canvas bag even though I have no use for it -.- all I do is obsess about money to spend... and if I'm not thinking about buying things.. I'm bemoaning my expense tracker showing me that I have a spending problem.........
also been obsessing over the ninja creami swirl.... just another thing I want to buy......... 🔝

— recommending

randomly read this article about tetris but liked the way it was written and thought I'd share it here.
also started doing this little thing of marking big wins on my work to do list.. been trying to incorporate it into my personal ones too!! its fun to see the little w's during the week.
started using the love and deepspace quality time timer feature again too.. I love the little co-working with whoever decided to show up in destiny cafe hehe 🔝

— treating

haven't been treating myself as much..... but I did get bubble tea the other day. I had to kill time before trivia (we placed second due to MOUNTAIN DEW CALORIES!!!!) but I'd also consider trivia a treat!! I really like the trivia group & its fun to just have a group to get together with every so often.
also started making milk tea protein shakes again.. I feel like I've finally gotten the right balance for them but I've also noticed I've been a little sensitive to caffeine lately.... anyway. milk tea recipe is as follows: 1 cup of preferred milk alternative (been using almond milk, but I usually like vanilla fairlife), a little under 1 cup of water, 1 scoop of classic milk tea protein powder from boba tea protein, 1 scoop of vital proteins collagen, and some swerve brown sugar replacement. shake well and add ice!!!! its the provided recipe from boba tea protein, but I used to blend it up instead of just shaking it and it would get too foamy... 🔝

— encountering

staying up super super late... I drag my feet on getting started on fun stuff when I get home which means that I'm up late having fun.... I'd like to go to bed earlier....
also I submitted my jd application!!! fingers crossed for a fast response... did I mention I was accepted into the mba program too? I can't believe that six months ago I felt so stuck and unsure of my future... and now I'm back in graduate school... and in an awesome job... insane...
after I finished the jd app yesterday, I did find that I wish I would of bitten the bullet and applied for jet last november. while I'm ultimately happy how things ended up... I still wonder what that would have been like. I just didn't think I was ready to move to a place that was so different... and where I didn't even speak the language. missed opportunity for now... but I guess I could try applying...... after grad school???? it just feels really late to try that... sigh. 🔝

— restoring

everyone cheer I've been eating more!!! I dropped off of packing snacks for a while due to laziness but I've done better this week! I usually like a 10 o'clock snack of yogurt and granola, and then around 2 or 3 I like to eat hardboiled eggs.. I feel the best when I'm eating about every two hours... just small things though.
I dunno that this actually counts as restoring but I've been enjoying taking the stairs at work T-T on vacation I would get winded climbing the stairs of the cruise ship. so I vowed not to be winded and I've been taking the stairs up to the fourth floor in the morning and in the evening. I'm only winded by flight 3 and a half but my recovery is about a minute to a minute and a half... weird things to be proud of but here we are.
this also reminds me of my hunt for non-watch fitness trackers..... 🔝

weekly highlights 🆕 layout for weekly reporter!!! 🆙 daily word counts 💭 new oc...? 📚 reading: coins of destiny 📺 watching: fallout (finished!) 🎵 listening: jpop 420 🎮 playing: lads and sun haven!

📊 stats report

— 3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ 1000 words of summer
☐ homework
☐ go to bed before 11pm
— upcoming
🖉 24 week clay retrospective
🖉 goals doc......
🖉 coolness theory 3 parter
🖉 oc intros
🖉 greenhouse missive/intro

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📥 editors recap

happy june first! happy pride month! happy 1000 words of summer day 2!
welcome to the new weekly reporter layout!! I've actually had this ready to use since march... but then none of the reporters were that interesting... and I stopped doing them for a while... so I figured that tonight was as good as any to get it started!!!
I've made the promise to myself to really commit to writing again... as detailed over there on the stats... but I'd really like to keep adding to this as I do more stuff.. it would be cute to have some little classifieds at the end.. Idk. I'd like to add more... recap-y stuff to the side bar but I'm not what to add yet? I think I need to do more creative work to really add to it.
let me know if there is any weirdness with the formatting... I kinda just cobbled it together in obsidian and all my post testing seemed to work? I think it would probably look cooler in a website format on my neocities but IDC!!!! the blog is here on dreamwidth!!! the website is unfinished anyway!!! I wish I had a cooler thing to say in this space but its basically a free write. I've pretty much explored and mentioned all my current thoughts for now...