Week of May 31st, 2025

I’m not drowning any more, but this week has continued to be intense. #

Wednesdays are supposed to be weeknote day, but on weeks where I can’t do that, the last 4 days stay in my head and I lose 5 days to talk about. #

Work #

Starting Tuesday, it’s been non-stop! A throw-away conversation at RC Coworking has got me interested in WebRTC, and I’ve spent lots of my time exploring what it would take to do multi-channel video on the web. #

I’ve also started the Writing for Nerds course, and: #

1. I’ve written every day, and had an accountability call every week (yay!) #
2. I’ve been late to most of those calls (boo!) #
3. I’ve been inspired to spend more time working on tanvibhakta.in (yay!) #

I don’t know how useful this is to anyone, but I’m increasingly convinced I want to dump my WIP notes on my website as well. I don’t 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 - it’s not easy, but ✨ the power of community ✨ will lift us all together. #

On Sunday, I wrote another horror short story. It’s interesting to me how #

• I don’t read or watch horror at all, and yet it comes so easy to me to create it (2 out of 4 short stories I’ve 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 friend’s 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 haven’t wanted to cook for a long time. Not even small things, like my garlic mayo, or miso soup, or even jackfruit jam. I don’t know why - maybe I am getting my creative outlet in other places and so don’t 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. #

I’m solidly in the midpoint of my pushup journey. It is very annoying - I don’t 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! I’m 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! #