Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Um, hi. I went on aforementioned Europe trip, we decided on London+Edinburgh+Glasgow. We "backpacked", I guess? Like, we walked and took public transport everywhere. I'm not sure if that's the definition of that term or if you're only supposed to walk. My only experience with the term is American Werewolf in London.
I saw Big Ben, we met up with my friends' friends and they were all nice, I had a few meltdowns and nearly threw up on the train, we stayed at a hostel in Edinburgh, we went to Edinburgh Castle, I got to meet up with my friend (!!!) and we went to a bar with live jazz music (They have live music like that just every day!!! I'm so jealous! On a daily basis in Omaha we can only do that with boring indie folk!!!!), I had vegan food that was actually good, I went on a pub crawl in Edinburgh, (I lost at beer pong very badly), I apparently got black out drunk at the beach but I don't think anything happened in that time (I chugged a 4loko thinking I could handle it. The view was very beautiful, I love the sea air, and I danced to Dead Can Dance off my phone. I felt really embarrassed shortly after but now I don't really care.), I went to a Scottish mall and bought Cocteau Twins CDs from Avalanche Records (SUCH A COOL STORE!!! The vintage clothing game in Edinburgh is crazy too), I went on a mission to find a blue Police Box in Glasgow and succeeded, in short I had the best and worst week of my entire life. Oh and I went to the Tate Modern and the Scottish National Museum. And I nearly passed out from how bad my knees hurt a couple times. And I caught a cold and I hated the hostel.
I spent too much money at London's Doctor Who Shop but did not get to see their museum because it was closed when we were there (I was very sad about this.) I got books (BOOKS!), specifically The Left-Handed Hummingbird (Kate Orman (such a badass title!!)), In Wonderland by Paul Magrs, Camera Obscura by Lloyd Rose, and The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole. I deliberated for a long time on Revolution Man but passed it up. I wish they'd had Interference, Goth Opera or Frontier Worlds, I really want those ones. I might need to get them online. I also got one of the action figure boxsets with Sarah Jane + Romana I + Romana II (Monster of Peladon Sarah + The Power of Kroll (kind of a stupid serial but I already have Romana I's Pirate Planet figure, and besides that the outfit is admittedly my favorite thing about it (Romana I usually is my favorite part of every episode she's in because I'm in love with her)) + Horns of Nimon Romana II (I still need to get her Destiny of the Daleks figure.))
About a month before my trip (2 months ago), I also found some VNAs at Half Priced books and picked them up! I felt super lucky.There's been some Sixth Doctor serials on DVD too, but I haven't snatched them up (they're so expensive! I have to prioritize Four and Seven so I can at least have my favorites (I got a DVD set of Capaldi's era for $20 on clearance at B&N after being alerted to it by a friend, and I already have S3+4, so that leaves Four and Seven and the Doctor Who movie for me to have all my favorites. I'm also building up a reputable collection of Five VHSes, and I also have The Aztecs which makes me want to deliberately collect One VHS from hereafter).
I would have the time off from school to do a day or maybe two of Chicago TARDIS this year if I wanted to, but I'm not sure I want to. The guest list is not intriguing me and mostly right now it makes me feel more disappointed I have to miss Gallifrey One next year.
Anyway. Also about a month before my trip but on the shorter side of that phrase, I read The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. This has been world shattering for me. Revelations have been had. I am exclusively an it/its again. LOL. I might make a fanpage for it. The new show started coming out last week and... eeh. It's okay so far, I guess. Some things I'm a bit wary of here but I think it could turn itself around and be really amazing IF it gives itself the time... The lightning-quick pace of a 10 episode series of 25 minutes each makes me doubtful though.
I won Best Dressed at The Noir's World Goth Night celebration last Saturday! I felt like prom queen lol. I went in my second or third Lolita coord (it's a blue velvet JSK with white lace, my Ralph Lauren ruffled blouse, my thrifted jewelry, studded leather accessories, a Siouxsie-ish makeup attempt, blue hair (with my cool new haircut!), my white Demonia boots under black legwarmers.
I started cosmetology school on Monday and I can confidently say that I'll probably enjoy the work once I know what I'm doing, but as far as learning experiences go, I hate it. I don't think my instructor has ever met an autistic person before let alone taught one, from how badly she doesn't know what to do with me. It's kind of frustrating but if superclips is any indication they'll license just about anybody. (Still a concern because I want to be far better than Superclips. I want to excel in my field and it's deeply frustrating that I'm not excelling in this learning environment. (I did get second on Kahoot though. It's just there's too many implied instructions in the way my instructor gives them so I waste time not knowing what she wants from me on the floor. I also have found I have a very deep primal fear of curling irons which I'll have to get over.))
Once and if I can get used to school enough to do other stuff again (I need to get better so bad) I want to learn to sew a JSK myself out of this blue fabric I thrifted, join Archery Club, and get active on the TARDIS.Guide forums again. I also want to draw Murderbot fanart good enough I feel like I can post it. And I want to decide on either learning to DJ or learning to play bass guitar (DJing, probably. I would need to get a really small bass from what my experience with guitar was like. My hands are wayyyyy too small.)
I won't be doing Art Fight this year, but I also want to update Arkady and Nikita's refs and story anyway. I think I've been conditioned from so many years.
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
yLong time no updates. I've moved states again. I'm enrolled in cosmetology school, due to start next year in the late spring after a trip to Europe I'm planning with friends.
I'm not sure how often I'll make blog updates in the future, if at all. Sharing on the internet has made me kind of paranoid lately. I think I just need to leave social media and have time to shake off all the thought processes it instills.
It feels strange to touch this site after such a long time away. I feel like I'm editing the pages of a dead person, a snake trying to reinhabit a shed skin. Hopefully as I edit it more it'll stop feeling that way.
The Archive has been taken offline.