📰 weekly reporter 10.25-11.01
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zoomieyo📰 weekly reporter
— reflecting
so to try and make reporter more interesting, on wednesday, I was daydreaming up a draft for the greenhouse dispatch and started texting myself reminders for what I had read/looked at this week.
I'll talk about this a bit more in on writing, but I was thinking about nanowrimo, with it being november and all. It tickled my brain just right to get me thinking about how long I've been friends with j. we were on facetime anyway, and we tried to do the math and it's roughly ~15 or 16 years? we knew each other but weren't close and then we didn't even really get close until a little bit after we reconnected. it was fun to go back down memory lane though.
I want to do a monthly recap of some style but girl who already struggles to do weekly reporter and make it interesting....... help me brainstorm how to recap the month in a cool and interesting way that isn't already covered in reporter?
— enjoying
went to the hudson westbrook concert on halloween! it was a lot of fun!! we got lawn "seating" and why did everyone stay standing, please sit down for those of us lounging in the grass. I got invited to this concert and said yes despite not knowing any of this guy's music, so of course we had to check it out before the concert and I really liked him!! I guess? hes an up and coming country music guy. but I had fun and bought a shirt and a couple stickers. I'm not usually a merch person, but if they have stickers, I try to buy them for commemoration. buuuut. the last 3 concerts I've seen now I've bought shirts for. we will see if parkx has a cute enough shirt, I haven't really liked their designs from the other shows I went to.
— playing
I signed back into HSR yesterday right before the new update to claim the new dan heng yay. I also managed to somehow get abysm sovereign sylus in like 60-70 pulls. I feel bad that I don't like him more because he always comes home fast in pulls. I have not pulled for the new idol event but woooowaooo I love it. I need to play more of the story but the last few days have been too busy. I also finally read xaviers new myth where stars scatter and that shit had me ugly crying. it was so heartbreaking. I do think it suffers from some pacing issues.
— obsessing
hudson westbrook's discography.. not enough to make a hall of fame for him though. my favorites off texas forever are: texas forever, damn good taste in whiskey, dressed down, and hill I'll die on. other shout outs are weatherman, painted you pretty, and sober.
— recommending
hell yeah or no by derek sivers. I started reading this the other day when I couldn't focus and social media didn't have a grip on my attention span surprisingly. it's very good, and very easy to read. Its pretty similar to the way he writes on his website.
— treating
I took an exam on monday and got a 97 so I treated myself to a canes dinner afterward. also of course, halloween candy!!! we went and got a bunch of discounted candy today at the grocery store. at work we had our big quarterly meeting, and we had a bunch of yummy pastries too. I just realized I forgot to start the dishwasher at work before I left on friday. aw man.
— encountering
I hit a pr on squats today! I did 3 sets of 3 reps of 135 pounds!!! dad says I can do more, but that I'm too scared to do it. but squatting that much reignited my constant internal battle of: "do I train for powerlifting or do I train for bodybuilding," huuu... I love weightlifting and working out. I love how much it has changed my body and my strength. gyahhh!! I just wanna gush about working out I love it so much!!! it's such a wonderful positive thing in my life.
— restoring
while I did not do my laundry... I did get it sorted for easier doing later on this week. I also did a little tidy on one corner of my room, so I don't feel so overwhelmed. I think I probably need to do a serious room clean some point soon and actually make some space in here. I need to rearrange I think.
media recap
📚 reading: hell yeah or no by derek sivers, she's a beast newsletter, started and did not finish simon sarris's newest newsletter📺 watching: been watching bits and pieces of halo, as my parents are watching it in the living room. I didn't think that master chief had a personality but he does in the show. to be fair, I didn't really play halo except for when the boys wanted me to, and I think we still played in the sandbox mode.
🎵 listening: hudson westbrooks texas forever album and his self titled ep, listened to bbno$'s self titled album yesterday, and I'm still hooked on SPIRIT! and pain/ache/loving by hunny. double dare is having a birthday soon... so that will probably be on next week's reporter along with a concert recap.
🎮 playing: been more locked in on LADS, need to do my dailies for HSR... I saw a fancam?edit?idk what to call it short video? of some octopus lady from zzz... so maybe I go back to that too.
📥 editors recap
^^^ I actually hit word count so I didn't have to cheese it. anyway. reporter is simultaneously detailed and not detailed enough prompt wise. blah blah history of reporter coming from insta blah blah, I just find myself wanting to overlap things more, or go onto random tangents within subsections.. and I suppose I have the right to do that since it's my blog and I'll do what I want. IDK. I don't even know where I was going with this complaint so let's drop it. I tried to say let's let it go but I thought that would look weird (and indeed it did!)
so much to talk about but I don't have good links between them like... here we go:
as I finished up media recap, I was thinking about that octopus chara from zzz and I remember thinking, "man, she might be cool to cosplay... ugh... I'd love to cosplay more in general actually" and that's the end of that thought, but now, since it's loosely linked to Doing Things in The Future we move onto thinking about goals and wanting to share about some writing I did yesterday, buuuuut I stop myself, since that actually fits LOVELY AND PERFECTLY into on writing on the second page. which means I should just jump over there and write it... but there's a certain pleasure in following the code I have written and scrolling down to the next section. regardless, I look away as I think all these things, and I see the 3 ring binders on my bookshelf, so I think, gyah, another project I want to work on! oh and there was that cool travelers into rings project that someone on instagram was posting about, and for some reason I thought that we started moving into hobonichi journals in novemeber??? but no, we moved into our new 2026 journals in decemeber. backtracking past that interruption of journal moving, I was looking at the love and trip travelers, which is in stock on their website and not on my preferred stationery shop (yoseka... my beloved) so.. the temptation presents itself. and of course, we all know I'm a shopholic making irresponsible financial decisions (not to the point of serious detriment, just a bit too much of a shopaholic) so then we Must bring up the hobonichi cart that is still waiting for me. sigh. let's take a breath shall we?
🖉 on writing
happy nano to those who still celebrate. I'm not planning on attempting 50k words, but I would like to write every day a little bit. I journaled about this a bit last night, and without nano, I wouldn't be who I am today. I discovered nano around 13/14? years old, and I already felt the calling to be a writer at that point, so I really thought that it was just the coolest thing ever. I'd tell myself I was going to do it every year and somehow it always snuck up on me. I think my best nano was documented on listography, and I had fun keep the word logging up. Now that I pretty regularly write, I'm sure I could do it? I've done a lot of practice with 1000 words of summer, the mini 1000's and here every week with reporter. the word count on obsidian shows that I'm already up to nearly 2,200 words, but a lot of that is the actual coding body. I keep meaning to see how much the code/structure body is on that word count. so I went and did it, and it's actually only 569 words. which is amazing to me. I was thinking that I could write the daily required 1,500 in about an hour maybe 2. but I guess I'm a little faster than that HAHAA! which feels pretty good. I also caught a typo in my code that I can fix now, so I won't have to fix it later, yay.
💭 current musings: research, business analytics, statistics
this tweet (bayesian calculations) and this tweet (coding & language aptitude) and my thursday night class have all got me wanting to get into more tech/science/research stuff. .... *small voice* girl in stem so. I need to talk to my advisor and see how hard it would be to switch to the BA mba instead of just a general one... maybe use coursera to start learning about research and stats more... sigh. do I go ahead and just fully commit to nerding out? law and business analytics? zee, can you not be such a badass helloo?
I think I also saw some astrology stuff that suggested that some planets could also be influencing my interest in science and tech. I want to learn more coding languages too. last thurs, we were using python in google colab and man. this shit is so cool. is it too late for me to get into tech. (its never too late to learn new skills.)
📊 stats report
— last weeks goals
▣ put together a pinboard
☒ journal about frustrations
☒ start vitamin regimen
— 3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ lads idol boys polca
☐ do laundry -_-
☐ go for a run
I feel like here could really benefit from like stats stuff. maybe i should do workout highlights. or health highlights. what do I even wanna track here week to week....
I opened a bunch of pin mail the other day. I'm in two monthly pin clubs and they post the designs so I know what I'm getting, and I generally like the art so it's whatever if I opened them. but MANNNN. I forgot how much I loved pin collecting. I have some old boards I wanna hang up in my room and I wanna reboard a bunch of pins I have. I might get back into pin collecting and I might sell some of the pins that I'm not as invested in anymore. I need more people to make lads pins of charas that arent sylus and caleb....
been thinking a lot about pottery again. there's a workshop I'm considering taking where you make your own pottery tool? I feel like while it's actually a woodworking class, it would be so so fun. I'm considering getting back into classes, or at least doing open studio so I can throw. I want to take a hand building class, and I'd love to take intermediate wheel, but it's on thursday :/ I was on pinterest looking at home studios and I just... I miss pottery so much bahhhh.
huu huu how can I be cooler.... what projects do I want to work on... how should I design supplementary designs to reporter for monthly and greenhouse dispatches..... huu huu... what do I want to grow?? what do I want to manifest...
I don't have anything interesting to write for cultivation this time...
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Date: 2025-11-04 02:26 am (UTC)Oh YEAH the idol banner was brought to my attention and as a Caleb simp, internal screaming was had. The little teaser they released for his was so erotic (yell if only I had the spoons and money to actually unlock his stuff)....... Are you just going to try and pull for Xav?
(also, are Sylus/Caleb that popular in terms of pins?? It's so hard to get info about popularity sometimes. Since the other friends I know that play LADS do not like Caleb('s dynamic) it gives me the impression he's not well liked by certain people but ah.)
You've reminded me about Halo! I'm very mixed on the show so far, though I've only watched the first season. They were bouncing between so many little stories and characters that it was a little hard for me to keep track /where/ in a way Chief's not that important (yet?). I've heard the second season is a lot better so here's hoping.
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Date: 2025-11-12 03:58 am (UTC)I see more Sylus and Caleb pins than I see any others. there is so many dragon sylus pins too. (i saw a pinmaker responding to complaints in the vein of: "another sylus dragon pin?" and them explaining they had the design in the works for a while)
I think in general Sylus and Caleb are more popular than the og3 in the West? From what I've seen online (ao3 most popular tags list comes to mind, and just the number of pins I've personally seen) I do think Caleb definitely has the biggest division of fans- from what I understand the dynamic was watered down(?) in the eng translation, so some people like it and some don't. I personally think it is an interesting angle and like their dynamic... but I'm also someone who likes all the LI's anyway for one reason or another.
I think Sylus and Caleb definitely benefit from recency bias in terms of design quality too. og3's first limited myth VS sylus & calebs firsy limited myth VS new myths coming out: all the newer myths have better graphics/visuals... and I think that the cyborg & dragon myth just caught on better as opposed to sea god (essentially an alt outfit for rafa), zaynes master of fate (very chinese influenced, which is COOL, but isnt as familiar for western fans), and lumiere (similar to sea god, just a different outfit for xav) meanwhile, Sylus gets the kickass dragon design, and Caleb has the kickass cyborg design. of course, take this with a grain of salt as I'm US American, have no bearing on the state of the fan base overseas in terms of reception, cultural norms, etc etc needed for true Good analysis. all just based on what I've personally seen and think. random rambling thoughts on LADS... SORRY LOL.
I've only watched bits and pieces of halo so I feel the same way. everytime I would go in I'd ask about some plot point that had already been resolved. hopefully the 2nd season is better!