📰 weekly reporter 06.15-06.21

📰 weekly reporter

vol 23 week of 06/15-06/21

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

— reflecting

within the last day or so the main thought occupying my head has been about hard work and getting things done. last week I felt like I fell behind and this week I was given the terrible news that I didn't get into the jd program this year. but, I kind of anticipated it? I rushed my application, my lsat score wasn't really that great, and ugpa wasn't spectacular either. I'm stil; pretty disappointed and bummed out about it... but this is why I applied: I either got in and didn't have to worry about it, or I knew I needed to take the lsat again. I've had to work hard for everything I've done school-wise. dedicating many hours to studying, working to understand and learn the material... so why would I be able to coast into law school.. why would I even want to? is the questions I keep asking myself. hell..... look at this! I worked hard to make it and figure it out from scratch. there's an inkling of an idea, that I probably need to work through, regarding hard work and what it means to me.
haha! I just remembered the theme of doing that I've been revolving around this year. hard work and what it means to me, what it means for my hobbies, what it means to work hard.

— enjoying

on wednesday, I had a group project call for one of my classes where we talked about the assignment plan for like 10 mins. then we spent the next 35ish minutes talking about random stuff like law campus drama and how to hang up a tv. on friday, I went to a housewarming party that as it got later turned into a house party and it was so fun!! I dressed up super cute (and got some looks hehe), did a couple tequila shots, sang a bunch of karaoke, and had a good time!! yesterday, a friend of mine came over and we swam in the pool. we had also gone to the house party together and we are trying to like get to know each other? anyway, we had a cool convo about how hard and weird it is to make friends- "you have to be really intentional and upfront because its not like it was in school, you know?" kinda vibe.
all that to say... I love having a social life AHAHA. the trivia group has plans for tomorrow evening to go to laser tag too and I'm super looking forward to it. then this week is jammed packed with finals week stuff.. classes on tues and thurs, group project presentation on wednesday.... sigh.... one more week of busyness and then hopefully july will just be fun

— playing

my brother got me to download this game app he has with 10,000 levels of all those basic phone games.. aka: zee has no other games to talk about except love and deepspace segment. do I go back to hsr? to zzz? to wuwa? hell maybe even genshin??? other game considerations I've had recently.....
lads update: did the 3/4 freebie pulls plus the one or two I had saved and got a perm pool rafayel card T_T so now I gotta grind some more pulls to try and get the new limited myth. I really like the playstyle (of the fully ranked) companion in the trials but I am Not going to R3 him. I just cant justify that. ranking up myths is gonna be a rerun goal... i've seen some insane stuff where people are doing like 400 pulls and only hitting r1. which means its more loses than wins!!!! idk i just. thats too much for me.

— obsessing

so I finally got the 2 page weekly reporter template to work!!!! huge huge thank you to @isopods code explanation in helping me figure out how to make it work. I did have to take out the links in the "nav bar" that would auto jump to the different reporter sections. I figured since they already scrolled it would be fine and not missed too much. now that I've got the layout figured out, I need to figure out what to put on the second page LOL. I have some ideas.... but reporter was always intentionally a very simple prompting exercise to talk about my week. the second page really was just a "can I figure it out?" experiment with some loose ideas for a continuation of stuff to talk about every week.
relatedly, I've also loved looking at all the magazines and newspapers that come in. I process the mail for the office and there were a couple publication layouts that directly inspired the final weekly reporter template. so if yall see any interesting layouts.... I'd love to try and code them
as I've been playing around here with this.. I've been wanting to get back into making my neocities again. idk if the difference is that dreamwidth already has scaffolding so it's just easier to play in the pre-made stuff but I think that I'm ready to try playing around with the freedom that neocities has....

— recommending

this article kinda details the direction I feel like taking. this article inspired the idea for page 2 of weekly reporter.. these might be cute for little dividers for lads fanfics on gwarentz..... this workout was amazing and killed my legs and butt.

— treating

I had bought this necklace that got stuck in production but it finally came in and WOW. its bigger than i expected. I also ordered a bunch of stickers from there that I might use in my hobonichi...
mom made magic bars (hello dolly bars) and lasagna this week!!

— encountering

didn't really get ahead on my homework but I'm at least caught up instead of drowning in work. continuing on from reflecting, but I guess I don't feel like I'm working hard enough these days? one friend suggests I should take some time to relax. I guess there's some control issues I need to work through? maybe I do need to take july off and just hit it hard in august. I dunno. maybe I should just have more fun.

— restoring

tried to go to bed early this last week. didnt make it every night but did prioritize rest! our office was closed on thursday and all I did was sit on the couch and read fanfic while I waited for my laundry. felt a little guilty for not being productive and getting ahead... but it all worked out by this weekend right?

🆕 🆙 hello weekly reporter version 2!!!!!
💭 "what else should I add to weekly reporter... how can I make a dynamic layout for it....."

📊 stats report

—last week's goals
☑ fix 2 pager weekly reporter
☑ homework backlog
☑ take it easy

—3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ bring back bitesized
☐ finals week
☐ make sure I'm eating

should I start doing fitness tracking here too...? oh maybe pr highlights or something?

📥 editors recap

hello hello recap! I'm not sure what to say tonight. I feel like the first half of the reporter entries were really long but the second half kinda died down LOL. anyway. I guess we can focus on some upcoming stuff for reporter?
so the second page needs some media ideas. I pulled the basic layout from a business magazine we get at work and they utilize images.... I'd really like for it to be mostly text based but I have wanted to figure out images on dreamwidth for a bit.... anyway. I'm tentatively considering making it very media focused? I trimmed down the middle divider here on the first page to a highlights bit. I'm thinking of making a media recap similar to the stats report... I'd also like to do bitesized highlights and writing commentary things? I'm just not actually producing enough stuff during the week to highlight those things. sigh sigh sigh.
>how to live a fuller life? >how to make more time for things you like? help?????
there's so many cool things I'd like to do... maybe I'll make it for a monthly recap only? idk idk idk suggestions welcomed.
writing all this out made me want to do a deepdive stream of consciousness writing / planning session thing. oh my. feeling overwhelmed.
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made this as a quote section... also thinking about adding a topper to this- real narrow, just a weekly reporter page two type thing. should i source weekly quotes or what should i put here......?

I have some writing goals for my lads account that I'd like to talk about and its based on a recap I've had saved forever... oh. there's also another recap layout I have saved. I guess I could put them here or use these spaces as deep dives for whatever other topics I wanna cover?

bitesized features will hopefully be here... also should I differentiate this box here? on the layout that inspired it, it had a background color to break it up some. maybe I'll realign the text?
I miss the details element... so I wanted to give it some space here for when I get to writing stuff I wanna share.

i'd love to incoporate a craft corner concept??? detailing whatever projects I'm working on. but uh. there are no projects I'm working on...
unfortunately I love dreaming up ideas but never executing. so they get stuck either back-burnered or left as a nebulous imaginary idea. i'd like to change that....

media recap

📚 reading: FANFIC: LADS regency era au
📺 watching:
🎵 listening: love and deepspace ost / jrap / black pontiac
🎮 playing: love and deepspace merling oath event

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media thoughts...? links??????? should I also make this scrollable? unfortunately I did a whole lot of nothing this week except work on homework and try to rest. idk what the last book i read was. I think media recaps are so cool I'm just. not always consuming media T_T

© isopods

@isopods also has a really cute little html hack for polaroids that I wanna incoporate here... but once again: >girl who does not use images in her posts (bc shes silly) I'd really like to make this a little gallery section for stuff...

i am too ambitious.... WHAT THE HELL DO I PUT HERE AHAHHAHAHA
these are all flex boxes... considering making them fixed width + scroll instead... also trying to decide if i want to add more stylized elements in here. this page is overall more plain than page one.... but page one is LOCKED IN!!! when it comes to emojis and stuff. mostly because that page's concept was pretty developed when I created it. we will get there eventually.... this section was inspired by classifieds... so if you wanna share your stuff BAHAHA. maybe I should make this a recommendation section too..

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