Week #14 - Sep 09 to Sep 15 2024

2024-09-16

• 🌐 I'm giving weekly posts another shot, even though I am notoriously super bad at keeping up with them. But I love reading Noisy Deadlines's Week Notes so much that I want to do them too! I quite like how they are short, informal, informative, and aesthetically pleasing (I am totally stealing their emoji idea, apologies!). I also stumbled upon Jedda's week notes and this was yet another source of inspiration.
• 🎵 FKA twigs released her first single, Eusexua, from her next album, and it is perfect. I love it so much. A strong contender for my song of the year. She first performed this song at a Valentino fashion event last year and I've been waiting for this song to drop from the moment I first watched the performance.
• 📚 Re-started my quest to read more this year, after a two month drought. Mostly reading a lot of graphic novels to ease myself back into it. Black Coat (Volume 1) is a standout. Very interesting fantasy-mystery. In terms of reading actual prose, I started reading Buffalo is the New Buffalo, a collection of short stories by Métis author Chelsea Vowel. Honestly, it's hard reading anything after finishing The Secret History.
• 💤 Having a lot of trouble with sleep these days. It's quite hard for me to get out of bed. Currently trying a lot of ways to fix my sleep schedule (going to bed earlier should be on the list of things to try).
• 🎓 I'm procrastinating a lot with schoolwork. Either I go down a rabbit hole for an assignment and get too ahead of myself, or I just don't plain want to do something and end up on Reddit. It's a bad cycle. Right now in my English Composition class, we're writing Bibliographic annotations.
• 📜 I'm also taking a poetry course, ModPo, on the side. At the end of the week I have been reading poetry from Imagist poets. I quite like this movement of poetry. It's very Dickinsonian in that it says so much in few words. But it's Whitmanian in that it evokes more imagery. Earlier on the week, we read some poets that were more firmly in the "Dickinsonian" versus "Whitmanian" camp. Some people are polarized to prefer one over the other, but I think I like each the same.
• 📝 I ordered my Sterling Ink planners and picked up a Hobonichi techo for 2025. I'm quite ready for next year, stationery-wise!