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In a shocking turn of events, I've written ten pages worth of a zine and lecture I'd been stuck on for over a year. I was asked a while back to hold a lecture about art and technology and have been back and forth about it for months since. But through the creation of this blog, I've finally structured my thesis and dedicated some much-needed time for research. I'm stacking up articles to put up on my substack. I have some content in the queue for this blog. I pulled out some hard drives to sift through. I'm going to turn the cyberdeck on and see if I can run winamp or something on it for my hi-fi setup. It's been a strangely and refreshingly productive time. Again, I really needed it.

I forgot that having a website is a full-on hobby. Or it can be. And I'm hoping this will get me out of my zine-writing rut since I have a couple more ideas on my desk there too. I'm fully leaning into code as a hobby and making time for it again. More things I needed.

I used to spend almost all my time making premades and designs for others. I guess I do the same thing now for money, but it's really not the same. Especially with how boring the work can be. One of my least favorite clients called me last week and gave me a nice heap of anxiety. I still haven't called him back. He's a good guy and all, but his meetings were always a 2-hour minimum, he could barely afford me, and it took almost a full year to finalize one of the worst logos I've ever seen or made in my entire life. It was such a nightmare and I wish I had anyone to refer him to. Yikes. Maybe I take the easy way out and give him a number he simply cannot work with and call it a day.

TO-DO:

Finalize marketing outline @ work
Beg someone to approve the new research page @ work
Finish the zine + lecture outline
Find all the missing parts of my cyberdeck lol
Dig through the hard drive for the codebase I wrote for Spirit to cry about
Figure out how to document the last two years worth of 9-5 work
Attend coworker's webinar May 13 @ 4PM
Red mary janes come in the mail on wednesday :>
New gardener starts on May 14
Substack: How AI sucked at the knowledgebase CMS
Substack: How AI sucked at writing this blog
Introduce my copywriter to my fundraising coordinator
New bookstore
New turkish restaurant by me
Start grant writing lmaoooo

I missed this. Being a girl rearranging her digital bedroom for hours a night. It's actually hard to remember how I passed the hours before notifications, DMs, and timelines. It was just reading a lot of other people's blogs, working on my next layout, making layouts for others. I doubt it'll be like that again, but it's cool to hunt for fanlistings and slow the fuck down. It's cool to have a guestbook. It's cool to have a hit counter. I should find a webring or two.

I'm also a big supporter of Web as Art and Making Art for No Reason in 2026. Neocities really showed me how happy and content people are just taking care of their own sites and documenting their lives on their own terms.

I look forward to experimenting with things my 2003 mind couldn't conceive, mostly the stark contrast in the lo-fi appearance of this site and the way every day life looks these days. My teenage self would struggle to comprehend that I'd be posting le creuset mugs on my grown up Woman Blog.

It's nice.

Let's celebrate by looking at screenshots of my first ever HTML template and my first ever layout for my first personal domain.