Week of May 31st, 2025
Iām not drowning any more, but this week has continued to be intense. #
Wednesdays are supposed to be weeknote day, but on weeks where I canāt do that, the last 4 days stay in my head and I lose 5 days to talk about. #
Work #
Starting Tuesday, itās been non-stop! A throw-away conversation at RC Coworking has got me interested in WebRTC, and Iāve spent lots of my time exploring what it would take to do multi-channel video on the web. #
Iāve also started the Writing for Nerds course, and: #
- Iāve written every day, and had an accountability call every week (yay!) #
- Iāve been late to most of those calls (boo!) #
- Iāve been inspired to spend more time working on tanvibhakta.in (yay!) #
I donāt know how useful this is to anyone, but Iām increasingly convinced I want to dump my WIP notes on my website as well. I donāt interlink between my own writing nearly as much as I should, and this dump coupled with links for every paragraph should make things easier. #
On Saturday, we did the second installment of IndieWebClub, and 14 people wrote, 10 of whom published a blogpost! I am so proud of all of us - itās not easy, but āØ the power of community āØ will lift us all together. #
On Sunday, I wrote another horror short story. Itās interesting to me how #
- I donāt read or watch horror at all, and yet it comes so easy to me to create it (2 out of 4 short stories Iāve written in the last year are horror) #
- All of the horror I write also has a sexual element to it. To be vulnerable is to be open to violation. #
Life #
I got my house pest-controlled. There were wood bores nesting somewhere and it was getting too annoying. But this involved me moving all the cats to the house of a very generous friend, doing 32786 loads of laundry, getting a new (to me) couch! And moving the cats back again. Of course Jalebi attempted a very daring break during his time at my friendās house. Nobody believes that he is an escape artist until they experience his artistry for themselves. I am so glad for the presence of mind of these friends to save him from himself. And very sorry for the scratches they acquired in the process. I need to make it up to them. #
I havenāt wanted to cook for a long time. Not even small things, like my garlic mayo, or miso soup, or even jackfruit jam. I donāt know why - maybe I am getting my creative outlet in other places and so donāt feel the need? #
Health #
I had a headache this week. It was probably the stress of moving everything and back. I have missed access to a car many times in the last few days. The public transport girlie in me is not ready to accept this. Maybe she gave me the headache. #
Iām solidly in the midpoint of my pushup journey. It is very annoying - I donāt want to do it anymore! But I will give it three more weeks before I start working on a pull up out of spite. I did do a whole set of monkey bars! I did several walk on hands with my legs on the wall and I got so close! Iām working on getting into Chakrasan from a standing position! #
Media #
Very little media. Watched a random episode of Hacks (nice show!), listened to a lot more Indian hiphop. New Miley Cyrus and Tash Sultana albums out this week. Reviews out next. See ya! #