image of a very low-resolution orange chalice with three squares above it; the first square is small and orange, the second is large and a scarlet red, and the third is small and orange. Next to the chalice are the letters 'D' 'u' 'm', and 'p' arranged in a wonky square so as to give the idea of a laziness to arrange things neatly. They are colored yellow, light orange, lighter orange, and orange respectively. The chalice and letters have a purple background which matches the background colour of the rest of the website

--Short Little Writings--

It's The 24th And I've Finally Gotten Around To Writing About Концерт!

Ok so, I really like it. Actually a huge fan, as it's exactly what one would expect from a live album of Billy Joel from performances in the USSR— a collection of his songs recorded live with applause and a translator for the song introductions. As it turns out, I think I like Billy Joel's music! I've never really listened to it much, but I was pleasantly surprised with it! I'm definitely adding it to the master playlist that I've been making for whenever I end up getting a dedicated music player. Speaking of, I've changed my mind on what I'll get— I've been thinking about the Mechen M30, as it plays flacs and has quite the aesthetic.

In the meantime, I've recently (today) obtained some more miscellaneous music cds! I got Silver by Leep 27, Everybody Gets Up! by The New Congress, Hello On The Go by The Music Workshop For Kids, Mozart: Klavierkonzerte Nos. 20 & 12 performed by the London Symphany Orchestra, and then a cd of the music of Love's Fowl which is a musical by Susan Vitucci (as far as I can tell with my limited research skills), and the music of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein.

I've already started to listen to the Leep 27 album, and hoo boy is it ever pop-rock. I don't hate it, but it's very reminiscent of what one would hear on the radio in the mid-2000's to early 2010's. Great for driving I'm sure, but I find it quite borish to listen to it without something else to do, which is generally how I feel about a lot of that era's pop that I've listened to (do take my opinion with a large bit of salt; I haven't really listened to that much music generally, and especially not of that era, so I haven't the largest of sample sizes). Apparently though, Leep 27 is from and in Minnesota, which is pretty cool! Not much of anything comes from Minnesota, so it's always neat to see literally anything even somewhat interesting coming from it; even if it's middling 2003 pop rock

Waowza, It's Already The 14th??

I recently went to a thrift shop to buy some gifts for some friends, and ended up with two new cds that I've never heard of before— Swing by The Manhattan Transfer, and Концерт by Billy Joel. I enjoyed listening through Swing, as it's, as the name implies, a bunch of swing jazz music. I'm a passive fan of jazz, I don't usually seek it out but find it to always be a treat to my ears, so that album was a neat bit of proverbial rock candy. I haven't gotten to Концерт yet, though, but I'll make sure to write up some sort of review one I have. I'm quite excited to give it a listen, as it's apparently a collection of live recordings from a part of one of Billy Joel's tours in which he performed in the USSR, which is a pretty interesting bit of history.

Two cd albums on a brown floor, on the left is Swing by The Manhattan Transfer, and on the right is Концерт (Kontsert) by Billy Joel. Swing's album art is of two loopy cartoon figures dancing together with The Manhattan Transfer written on the top, and Swing written on the bottom, both in whimsically unserious fonts. Camera flash obscures the right third of the art, but barely misses any text. Концерт's album art is a pure red, the title of the album and Billy Joel's name is written on it in a very similar red, making it hard to read. There is a black rectangle on the upper right corner of Концерт as a censor bar covering a barcode and store label.

This obtaining of new cds is soon to become a bit of a habit as I begin to listen to music more and more, and have a stronger and stronger desire for physical media. I'm actually planning on buying an old iPod (probably the 5 or 6) and slapping RockBox on it so that I can listen to music that I own more genuinely. Also; I've meant to update this site with a bit more frequency, but I've been rather tired lately due to the drowsy weather, so I haven't been. I'll be sure to update it more now that my schedule allows me to sleep a little more lol, and I'll definitely try to write the second part of whatever I have going on in the Languages section of this website.

Now it's december (the 3rd)

If you, random website look-at-er, have been looking at the 'languages' section of this here website, you may've noticed a whole lot of changes, some big, some small. You especially might have noticed a lot of small changes in the IPA transcriptions of words and letters. This is because I often write things wrong on accident, and/or simply forget things (like transcribing a vowel's reduction, or writing down alternative pronounciations of letters). Honestly, it's pretty funny to mess up writing the transcription of a letter or word from a language that I literally created the phonology of. It's a good reminder that when you create a language, you have to learn it as well.

I feel like this is especially evident in the last paragraph of the 'phonological oddities' part of the page, in which I couldn't initially explain the pronounciation rules of the letter h and had to explain them through a lengthy example, after which I wrote a conclusion that explained the rule really well. Did I really need to write that whole example? No. Could I have removed everything except the conclusion? Yes. But I actually completely couldn't place what the actual rule was until writing out the example bc I was just so used to it and regarded the differing pronounciations as basically random, because I'm in a unique position in which I am both the creator and speaker of the words that I write, and thus don't notice things becoming natural rules (i. e. phonological rules) while I write up and memorize artificial ones (i. e. grammatical rules). It's quite the interesting phenomenon, I think.

Thanksgiving Day (28/11/2024)

Today is Thanksgiving! My family doesn't really celebrate though, we just eat a Thanksgiving-themed dinner and move on like normal. I would say that it's really sad or something that we don't put much effort into such a celebration, but frankly Thanksgiving isn't really a holiday that I think needs much celebration. I find the holiday as a whole to be quite superfluous, though its celebration being "hang out with your loved ones" and "be grateful for food and your material and ethereal goods" makes it a hard holiday to specifically dislike; I say that as one with a family who holds similar political beliefs to their own, but even if that weren't the case, friends exist, and those with true and good friends are never really without an accepting/supportive family.
Anyways, that was my short little Thanksgiving rant thing, I'm gonna go eat food, drink, and be merry as everyone deserves to one such a fine day as this.

24th!!!

Every day is one closer to something good! Probably, at least. Regardless, I got around to adding a page for the blog aspect of this website!!!! Also I've changed the main page to be more "cohesive", or at least less chaotic. I finished Arcane yesterday!!!! It was very awesome (despite everything feeling a little bit rushed and there being some un-tied ends) and I'm glad to've watched it.

Kendrick also dropped two days ago, and I finally have an opportunity to listen to it! So far, it's as amazing as a Kendrick album should be!

Overall, very chill day to add onto my very chill week (it wasn't actually very chill but that's fine), though my great tiredness the past two mornings tells me that I may start feeling more depressed again. Such is life; though it does annoy me that I lost much of my motivation to do anything as I was just starting to write again :/

Yaowzah it's the 21st and I finally got around to figuring it out!!!!

Yeagh that's right it's all purple now 😎😎 and there's nothing you could do about it 😎😎 heck yeah 😎😎. Anyways, I figured out how to do colours and text effects! I'm gonna also figure out how to format anything properly, as the current state of this site is still a tad rough lol. Also I'm now super not sick at all anymore! I've still had a bit of a cough throughout the day, but it should be gone completely tomorrow! I think, at least; who knows, maybe I have super mega lung cancer and will explode in my sleep 🤷
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woohoo now it's the 15th (best number)!!

yeagh I'm still very much sick :/, on the bright side though, it's payday! I purchased a campsnap camera, so when that arrives, I'm gonna have a field day with photo-taking! I can't wait to take random pictures of stuff more than I do usually! (Granted, I don't often take pictures, but now I'll hopefully start doing so more often!) I actually already have a camera— the FujiFilm SQ40, but it's an instant camera, so it's a little bit expensive to use too much. It's also fairly bulky, so my (at times) limited space for going places isn't adequate for its use. I think that I'm gonna be updating this website mainly on the weekends, as I have much that keeps me busy and away from my computer during the week. I also need to figure out how to actually format anything, as this site currently looks quite bad

A screenshot of this very website as of 15/11/2024. It's a blank white with the middle four of the above images on the left side along with some illegible text. It looks very not good, but hey, everyone starts somewhere!
Bask here in its blank and unfinished horror

today (14/11/2024) I've been a tad under the weather, so I'm think that I'll rewatch Arcane season two, as I only caught half of it the first time while at a friend's.

ok so I must say that I'm quite the fan of this season so far! its good! I would provide any sort of critical analysis but my brain is fried from whatever it is that my body is fighting with a slight fever and a shitty cough. oh the plights of illness. may god or whoever smite my woes (I've been somewhat sickly these past weeks, mayhaps this is the end (jk gang I'm probably just more unlucky than usual))