What I’m reading

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski (ARC)
• The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, read by Sir Ian McKellen
• Vagabond by Tim Curry

My 5 star reads so far for 2025

Harvard Top 100 Books Challenge set up at The StoryGraph by me

What I'm listening to

• The Life of a Showgirl Taylor Swift "I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness" perfectly describes the experience of being autistic
• all of the Hozier
• the Troy: Ares soundtrack

What I’m watching

• You
• Serial Experiments Lain
• IT: Welcome to Derry

What I’m creating

• knitting & crochet: a granny-square cardigan, my pattern current photo
• cross-stitch: Alice in Wonderland cupcake: "Eat Me"
• Little Free Library #214751 #Little Free Library
• Building my Digital Brain and writing in my Obsidian setup #obsidian
• Learning how to customize Blythe dolls and creating clothing for them
• my first novel

What I’m podcasting

• Episode 104: Hauntology
• Episode 103: I Contain Multitudes
• Talking about The Osbournes on Bye, Pumkin with Princess
• House of Leaves series on the podcast #House of Leaves
• Latest post: Website update and Intentional Ink #Intentional Ink

What I'm playing

• Intentional Ink Sims experiment #Intentional Ink -- my SimSelf within Intentional Ink

What I’m learning

• Keeping my high school and college French fresh
• Welsh
• Latin
• Spanish
• my genealogy (5002 people on the tree so far plus DNA)

What I'm thinking

• Opus.cafe my goals

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