What's Up
What's up. What's going on. What am I doing, reading, interesting stuff to share that I don't feel like making a separate page for. I don't expect myself to keep this super regularly updated or fully comprehensive of my activity - but it's a place to put stuff that I find noteworthy.
October 2026
- Getting back into the flow of things after Greece 2026 trip
- Plants! An inflow of plants into my apartment is forcing me to reconsider some layout and to finish setting some things up that I've been procrastinating for a while.
- Media
- Reading Hard to Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, enjoying it so far.
- Watching VisionQuest (Marvel series coming out week by week) -- rewatched WandaVision and part of Agatha All Along prior (was a good decision) as well as Multiverse of Madness. (mentioned this a bit in The Vulnerability In Favoritism). I really love this wanda/vision trilogy, especially the family aspect of it.
- Slowly re-watching Legend of Korra so I can then start watching the new Seven Havens series.
- Watching some spooky season related movies like Paperhouse (1988), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2024)
- I found a Halloween/spooky sheet music book for piano and have been enjoying playing through it (though most of the pieces are a bit challenging, slightly further above my level so it's not super easy to play through them smoothly, but it's a good challenge, takes a lot of focus, and fun (as always).)
- New experience: had my first ever cavity filled and drilled. I was semi-nervous leading up to it, though honestly more nervous about being nervous and less so nervous for the actual procedure. Indeed, the hardest part wasn't the anesthetic injection, but my mental reaction to it - I got warm and sweaty in the minutes afterwards, a not too unexpected result as I have had similar moments of health anxiety in the past. Something about my body being affected by something external and mysterious, fear of losing control maybe, or just getting in my head being nervous about how my body is reacting to it. I felt better after venting some air into my shirt, and the dentist gave me a damp paper towel to cool my forehead, and then I felt normal after a minute. The actual drilling+filling itself was fine, the worst was a couple brief moments of slight sensitivity where they were drilling, but not sustained enough for it to be an issue. Glad to have gotten this over with. Vaguely nervous about the future of it because I've heard that once you have one filling, it's easier for that tooth to get decayed again and can lead to increasingly larger issues until it turns into a root canal. Hopefully doesn't happen though.
- Enjoying working on making my Halloween costume! It seems that once a year, I tap into a secret hobby in my mind of costume designing.