i am writing this journal entry from an armchair in the corner of the ely center, while andrei and some other people are setting things up for a "weird music night" show. i'm not performing in this show, but i did help out a tiny bit by bringing some cables and falafel over.
it's been a minute since my last entry! my week has been somewhat colored by the fact that i got poison ivy. the previous week, i did some work outside, and i'm usually pretty good at avoiding it, but there is no foliage on the plants yet, so i wasn't really able to identify things. i'm highly sensitive to it, so whatever oils i picked up from touching a vine or root were enough to give me a pretty annoying and uncomfortable rash. i've been going about life mostly as usual, but everything feels just a tiny bit more irritating. hopefully it will heal soon and i can have a newfound appreciation for not being itchy.
meanwhile, andrei got back from the house-sitting trip, and we've been watching a ton of movies together since then.
last weekend, i began a personal archaeological expedition into my digital past because i am re-doing my artist/academic CV. i have had an HTML version of my CV as the definitive version where i keep track of things, but i never put in exact dates for things, and there were some things that never got added. i am making a new version that's actually a spreadsheet/database in grist (a web app I self-host), which will then be formatted into a document by a custom script i'll build, probably with typst. i'm entering all of the data of my performances, exhibitions, screenings, etc. in grist with more precision and specifics, so i've had to go back in time via archives on my hard drive, data exports from social media accounts i deleted years ago, email threads from the stone age, and versions of my website that only exist on archive.org. (not to be melodramatic — i'm not actually that old — but 15 years of Being Online feels like an eternity in internet time.)
i got things started pretty well last weekend, and i'm hoping to finish it up this weekend. it's not the most exciting project to talk about, but it's one of those things that just needs to be done, and i'll be very glad when it's finished.
oh yeah, also, last weekend, we went to an indoor ropes course / zipline place which we had a gift card for. i have never done a ropes course before, but apparently it's not an uncommon thing. i enjoyed it, especially the zipline part. my only complaint was that the harness didn't move as smoothly as i would have liked; i kind of had to hold it in my hand and drag it around, which meant i couldn't fully try to balance on my own without it. regardless, it was fun to be high up in the air and in weird colored lighting.
a couple other misc things:
- a friend commissioned me to build them a custom-coded artist website. my favorite kind of website to make!
- i've been continuing to practice spanish. i might go on an immersion trip with my mom this summer.
- i upgraded our peertube server (the OS, database, and peertube itself). it was a slightly more painful process than i was hoping for, but i didn't have to revert to my backup, and it worked out in the end.
OK, the show is starting now, so that's enough journaling for the moment. till next time...
