what are we doing right now?

last updated: may 7th, 2025!

life is beautiful in every way because we got engaged to our partner system on the 10th of march, and this true happiness eclipses everything else on this page!

for the sake of it being a now page, though, let's have all the other life updates anyway:

we need to move house pretty soon, and are undergoing the extremely stressful process of looking for a place to live and trying to get a job at the same time. it's a bit brutal, but we stay winning.

we are part of an artists' collective in our city, and a lot of exciting opportunities come from that! for example, we have three upcoming exhibitions our work will be featured in: two at the end of may, and one in june.

the first end-of-may exhibition we will be contributing an installation to, about mapping a lifetime or adolescence. the other end-of-may exhibition we'll be contributing mixed media paintings and a poetry booklet to, on the theme of neurodiversity. the one in june is with the photography group go to every tuesday, and we'll be partially responsible for curating it!

we try to perform our poetry often, and go to several different open mic nights a month - though sometimes the dates clash with other responsibilities. we are also trying to develop a collaborative performance piece with a friend who's a dancer!

since we are often performing, we are constantly generating new material. this is to say that we write pretty often. lately, the muse ariadne writing club has been a source of a lot of the inspiration.

we make lots of art all the time, though our focus is currently on exhibition stuff. our favourite sort of art to make remains abstract acrylic palette knife paintings. we're also working towards a gold arts award qualification, by developing painting workshops.

in general, when it comes to creativity, we're making an effort to make cool stuff as much as possible, but also to fuse our disciplines into bigger projects. we have a lot of ideas and a lot of directions we could take things, so we can't let the wealth of choice give us decision paralysis as we work towards actualising the plans we have in mind. there's always so much to do, because living in the world is so inspiring.

to be honest, a lot of what we do is stuff we consider "work-related" and "productive", and we have an unhealthy complex about staying on that grindset. so we've been trying to allow ourselves to unwind sometimes, and just enjoy life. we do genuinely enjoy working, but there needs to be a balance, and when we find ourselves getting extremely stressed out about the idea of not working, we know we should be kinder to ourselves.

we recently had a "new" alter surface - their name is erato and they've been here for ages but didn't feel safe enough to explore being alive. so, as challenging as it is to have significant system updates, it's also proof that the threads are untangling and we're becoming more and more able to recover from our traumas.

this year, we are determined to eat healthier and exercise more to improve our physical health. this is proving to be challenging, but we will do our best, as it's all we can do.

okay, but what about media and hobbies? well, we really like to read books, and once again we have set a goal to ready 36 books this year (and currently have 12/36). we mostly read translated (usually japanese) contemporary fiction. our goal to watch 24 new movies this year is doing much better than last year: we have 10 so far!

in conclusion, are equally wonderful, beautiful, stressful, inspiring, and difficult. life is a mixed bag, but we'll be damned if we don't enjoy the lovely parts!

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