Jan

• Japan trip!
  • Kaiseki in Kyoto, Julian conversing with the Watanabe fam; best coffee ever
  • WAGYU in Kyoto
  • Monkeys at Arashiyama!
  • Osaka food crawl with Yuka
• Lumi and Matou came home :)

Feb

• Squatted 155 lbs without hurting back :)

April

• Oh FUCK it's April! What the hell happened to my reminder
• Discovered Hana Vu, listening to Romanticism right now this is my album of the year
• I feel like I'm losing some weight!

Short list

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Masterlist

• Little Women
• Anna Karenina
• The Age of Innocence
• A Long Way Home
• The Woman Warrior
• When Women Were Warriors
• Code Name Verity
• Lincoln in the Bardo
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
• The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
• Mara Wilson's Memoir

Read

• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

• Daughter - If You Leave
• Galimatias - Renaissance Boy
  • ok that's a lie, I skip songs a lot with this one but as a whole this album fuuuucks
• PVRIS - All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell
• Paramore - This Is Why
• Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
• Epik High - Epik High is Here Part 2
• Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
• Hana Vu - Romanticism

• skydive
• adopt a dog
• go to a non-Universal haunted house
• buy a new car
• go rafting
• eat a cheese steak in Philly
• take Sam to Six Flags
  • to Griffith
  • to the Museum of Tolerance
• paintball
• zipline
• fly first class
• GO TO GREAT AMERICA AND EXPERIENCE THE MASS EFFECT ATTRACTION
  • I don't know what it is or how it will work but I don't even care I will give them all my money
• fill up a journal
• pay for my own damn Netflix account

Books

• Moderation - Elaine Castillo
• Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
• All Along the Watchtower (comics)
• Annihilation
• Pachinko (WIP)

Games

• Mass Effect 3 Legendary Edition
• Elden Ring
• BG3 platinum run
• Marvel Rivals
• Hades 2
• Blue Prince

Movies

• Spirited Away
• LOTR 1
• LOTR 2
• LOTR 3

TV

2025

• Hades 2
• Mass Effect 3 Legendary Edition (finally lol)
• Mass Effect: Andromeda (WIP)
• Valorant (ongoing)
• Elden Ring (WIP)

2024

• The Devil in Me
• BG3 take 4
• It Takes Two (IP w/ michelle)
• Detroit: Become Human
• Dragon's Dogma II
• Hades II
• Valorant (again lol)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (FINALLY finished!)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard (part ii, IP)

2023

• Arrival
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• Ex Machina
• Ip Man 3
• Lust, Caution ("espionage erotic thriller")
• Machete Kills
• March of the Penguins
• Philomena
• Room
• Se7en
• Snowpiercer
• The Big Short
• The Crossing 1|2
• The Intervention
• The Lobster
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya
• The Pirates
• Personal Shopper
• Colossal (wherein Anne Hathaway fucks shit up somewhere)
• 20th Century Women

• Watch 5 new queer movies
• Enroll in a non-professional course/class/lecture series (drawing, space, history, cooking, etc.)
• Learn to pistol squat
• Increase shoulder and hip mobility
  • Take pictures of shoulder stretch + hip stretch depth (ie pigeon, saddle) in Jan + Dec to determine progress
• Cook 10 new foods from 10 different countries
• Journal more
• Watch 5 movies made before 2010
  • Spirited Away
• Finish 1 TV series made before 2020 (like BSG LMAO)
• Finish 1 thing from listography to watch/read/play list (that was added before 2025)

Red

• pinot noir (wine by joe) | spicy. no.
• stella rosa stella roso | *as tom haverford* :D

White

• il conte d'alba moscato d'asti | sweet, fizzy, :)
• kinderwood chardonnay | fruity, light, buttery, :)
• moelleux wines - trez gud

Beer

• 1664 | too light, not much there
• 310 | idk I think I like 805s better but I don't actually remember
• I am too weak for IPAs
  • I'm growing up, I don't hate IPAs now.
  • hehe
• i started this list in 2016 and it's 2024...

2025

• my lawyer said don't (wishing I was good at Valorant 2kforever)

2024

• sorry to my past self but I only just started to re-listen to songs I had downloaded pre-Spotify and have made a Galimatias playlist
• make this go on forever -- hahlweg
• wide awake -- saysh
• get gone -- tennyson
• crazy -- echos
• stargazing -- just a gent (adaine abernant (:)

US

• Seattle, WA
  • Visit Bruce Lee's grave
  • Coffee
• New Orleans, LA
  • Café du Monde for beignets and coffee
• Tennessee
  • The Caverns
• Texas
  • Texas toast

Europe

• Austria and/or Germany
  • Oktoberfest