the internet is off at the house, so i'm doing the thing i did when i was sixteen and had no at home internet: going to the library
this also means i'm writing this entry pre-emptively at home b/c the library doesn't open until 1pm and it's 10am rn lol
i'm in my feelings about some shitty things said to me this morning, but yesterday was really nice regardless
yesterday tony and i went to
wonderfest! it's a little block party kind of thing in our neighborhood (west hill) that they do annually (and they do some other small events at the pocket park there, too). they were doing some artsy workshop things we thought we interesting, so we each signed up for one.
i did indigo dyeing! the folks running it were really nice (students from kent state and a local artist) and everyone tried different techniques on their items (we got a handkerchief and then another item we could pick from the stuff they brought, i did a baggy shirt as my second item). i'm always kinda surprised what DOESN'T catch the dye when you do stuff like this, and how much you kind of have to plot out what you're doing if you want it to look like something specific. i was going for a star with my handkerchief and tied off the points, but did not think to block out the center of the star (as though the dye would just magically know what i wanted and avoid those areas lol), so i ended up with a handkerchief with a bunch of circles (which tony joked looked like anuses jklghdfgld)
for my shirt i wanted, like, one long diagonal swipe across it and rolled it that way specifically and then wrapped it around a dowel. when i unrolled it, the swipe was WAY bigger than i wanted lol - i thought the dye would permeate further. i ended up doing a second dip by just folding the part i wanted undyed and then dipping in the rest of the shirt THEN flipping it over and wringing it out so the dye bled down into the white section. still wasn't QUITE what i was going for, but it was still a fun experience!
tony did the clay and resin workshop and made a cool little heart based on one of his newer OC's/sona's.
afterwards, we went home for a bit and then i popped back out to grab our items (his had to bake and mine had to dry) and went up to highland to get some drink and stop at the library for movies. ended up grabbing the
deluxe edition of 'battle angel alita' which, like, I OWN MOST OF in the paperback manga, but it's boxed away somewhere and i haven't read it in decades i think lol. and every time i WOULD read it, i'd still feel lost b/c the writing felt so dense and there were so many footnotes lol. but i committed this time!! i'll have to pick up the other volumes while it's still fresh in my mind
i'm going down to the main library today (the only branch that's open sundays, even tho it's only for four hours and we all have a lot of Opinions™ on that at work) and picking up a bunch of DVD's for tony and i know i'll end up grabbing more shit than i need b/c their graphic novel section is pretty varied
after getting back from highland i came home and got dressed to go see the '
the life of a showgirl' movie theater release thing at
the nightlight with sam!
i WAS holding off on listening to the album before going, so it'd be a surprise, but i DID cave and listen to it earlier in the day anyhow (sam did the same lol) - kinda glad i did b/c they played the clean lyrics at the theater (which makes sense tbh) and the difference for some of the lyrics is STARK (clean is good for some tracks, explicit is good for others, some are fine either way).
but it was a fun little experience - the audience was chill (and there weren't too many folks, the nightlight is a small arthouse theater so it wouldn't've been packed like a regal or something) and we didn't have screaming preteen girls right in our ears x_x i like the idea of artists doing something like this, getting fans together and showcasing their new work, showing us some behind the scenes stuff with the making of a music video. it's just fun to see behind the curtain in that aspect
the album is 'just okay' for me. like, nothing spectacular, nothing terrible. i'll give it some more full listens, like i usually do with taylor swift albums, and some stuff will grow on me. i feel that maybe she really used a lot of her writing juice on TTPD and, yeah, this album was written in a much happier/more positive time of her life - a blossoming new relationship, the implied 'closing the chapter' on a lot of her previous subject matter (with TTPD's conclusion), but coming off of the tails of TTPD, it doesn't feel like it has as much depth to me (or even for me! and that's also fine lol)
i really love the first three tracks on the album, tho, and the chorus for '
ruin the friendship' has been stuck in my head. i also unironically love '
CANCELLED!'. '
eldest daughter' was kind of a let down, but i've had hayley williams' '
kill me' on repeat and it's a stronger eldest daughter type track lol. it kinda feels like taylor saw a bunch of artists writing eldest daughter stuff and wanted to jump in b/c she, too, is an eldest daughter, but i don't think the vibes are QUITE the same (or, also, it's just not relatable to ME lol). i feel a lot of the tracks, as a whole, are a bit too rhyme-y tho. not the end of the world, just noticable
i'm thinking about going back thru her albums and tracking the songs that i've deemed favorites just to see which albums i've vibed with more vs. the ones i'm just kind of 'okay' about. could be a fun little 'no internet' project lol
other than that, things have been going. still doing grand jury duty, so i'm only physically at work maybe once or twice a week rn. and this week, not at all i believe! i have court all week and endo appointment (thyroid surgery stuff followup) on friday. i'm off on wednesday, which is lame b/c i was aiming originally to be off on saturday, but my manager is.....................difficult.
this also reminds me i need to put my schedule on the calendar....
