All right, non-spiritual updates are pretty basic: I’m about to start a papermaking project, but being a lazy art student who knows too much about paper, I’m making things more fancy than they have to. I’m gonna make sure it’s acid-free and properly sized to avoid ink/paint bleeding ( Read more... )

The only notable thing is that I started therapy with my sister and I took some weekly horse-riding lessons, but I quit those after they started telling me to "kick the horse to go if they're not responding" or "yank the reins if they don't want to stop/turn." I'm just gonna find a better place to learn Western riding if I can ( Read more... )

So I made a poem for another Filipino friend's wedding in the first week of August. It's this fantastical, precolonial Tagalog poem about Haik the sea-god marrying a mortal woman using actual precolonial wedding traditions. I initially told her I wanted $20 per page so the two-page final poem would have been $40, but she decided to give me $60 ( Read more... )

Drumpf has been elected President by the Electoral College, which is really really really REALLY not cool. Like... what is happening, Universe? There better be an INSANELY GOOD PLOT TWIST in the last couple weeks of 2016 ( Read more... )

Crossposted to The-bears-wifeI watched the new Star Wars movie and it's fantastic, plus I finally finished the necklace that Persephone told me to make about half a year ago. For winter break, I'm basically finishing every half-done craft-project that I've forgotten about, every not-yet-a-project that I planned but never managed to actually start, or everything ( Read more... )

Well, everything's going fine except for math as usual. Two weeks left to the end of the semester and FUCKING GRAPHS ARE FUCKING ME UP ARRRRRGH. I need to schedule a tutoring session so I can at least get the fucking test done ( Read more... )

So February's drum circle involved a lot of Hades and Persephone, which surprised me. Persephone recommended getting some amethyst for my various issues since it deals with healing and dispelling negative energy, so I got a chunk of Cape Amethyst from the beading shop to make into a necklace ( Read more... )

So on December 6, I went to a special showing of The Last Unicorn, with Peter S. Beagle in attendance. For some reason my DVD of TLU vanished, but that was okay since I still brought my old, high-school-discard-pile copy of the book for him to sign.

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So a lot of the apple skins in my cyser are turning white somehow. Maybe it's from the gases formed by yeast production? Or sitting in the honey-water mix for a few days? Either way, it's very interesting ( Read more... )

Tangible updates:-I finally managed to not screw up something in my knotwork bracelet yesterday. Couching with lace yarn is a bit finicky, but the effect of a MAGICALLY STUCK-ON PIECE OF FLOSS is well worth it. Plus, lace yarn is pretty much the perfect blend of thin but strong for going through canvas. Will need to double the amount of embroidery ( Read more... )