— inspired by and shamelessly stolen from rose

☰【 AGENDA 】→ events

• 08/11 Sat ▸ Bon Odori @ Mitsuwa
• 08/11-12 Sat/Sun ▸ PoGO Community Day: Eevee
• 08/18-19 Sat/Sun ▸ Chicago Air and Water Show, 10am-3pm, North Ave. Beach
• 08/24 Fri ▸ doctor's appointment @ 1pm

☰【 AGENDA 】→ goals

• water plants in backyard! *daily*
• read John 6 in its entirety, for the next few weeks
• update five things icon for the month of August

☰【 AGENDA 】→ new lists

• music (pop artists I'd see in concert) ▸ ※
• videogames (Pokemon according to Ma) ▸ ※
• videogames (daily login cutoffs) ▸ ※
• five things (abridged: March～July 2018) ▸ ※
• five things (of August 2018) ▸ ※

✔ 【 WHAT I'M 】→ listening to || discoveries and music played on repeat

• | ♫ | Taylor Swift – ... Ready For It?
  • baby, let the games begin
• | ♫ | Lorde – Buzzcut Season
• | ♫ | The Lumineers – Ophelia
• | ♫ | Rex Orange County – Sunflower
• | ♫ | Jason Mraz – Have It All
  • may the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows
• | ♫ | Tasha – Kind of Love (via NPR)
• | ♫ | Lindsay Latimer – Prom Queens
• | ♫ | Aimer – 蝶々結び (Chouchou Musubi)
• | ♫ | Aimer – Polaris
• | ♫ | Imagine Dragons – Release
  • heaven talks but not to me / 'cause heaven knows that nothing good comes free
• | ♫ | Death Cab for Cutie – The Sound of Settling
• | ♫ | Death Cab for Cutie – Crooked Teeth
• | ♫ | Ingrid Michaelson – Open Hands
• | ♫ | Forlorn Strangers – Signs in the Sky
  • the doctor said you better slow down now if you wanna keep it together / but I don't care I got the open road and I'm feeling light as a feather
• | ♫ | Logic ft. Ryan Tedder - One Day
  • and maybe one day I'll be wiser / 'cause maybe one day I'll be further from here / put all of my faith in tomorrow / dark days keep me up all night / only thing I know, it's gonna be / alright
• | ♫ | CHVRCHES – Graffiti
  • time to kill / was always an illusion / time stood still / and now we never will, never will
• | ♫ | CHVRCHES ft. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA – Out of My Head
• | ♫ | José González – Heartbeats
• | ♫ | Meiko – We All Fall Down
  • hold your breath and wish for something better
• | ♫ | Emmy The Great – Paper Forest (In The Afterglow of Rapture)
  • it's like these days I have to write down almost every thought I've held / so scared I am becoming of forgetting how it felt / and these fears, they will unravel me one day / but still I am afraid
  • now you write because you love him, now you write because he's kind / you write so much, you look up and you wrote yourself behind / and you're standing in a labyrinth of paper and the map has been erased
  • it's like the way I have to write down almost everything I see / so that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be / and I know I'm not unlucky / I was just born this way

✔ 【 WHAT I'M 】→ playing || mobile games, mostly

• FGO ▸ 08/23～09/04
  • Prisma Codes
  • Lord Ashura guide
• LLSIF ▸ 08/20～08/31
  • 第8回 なかよしマッチ
  • Mari/You (Festival)
• FGO ▸ 08/09～08/29
  • サーヴァント･サマー･フェスティバル
  • quick guide || map.jpg || story
• LLSIF ▸ 08/05～08/15
  • 第15回 チャレンジフェスティバル
  • Nozomi/Kotori (Festival)

✔ 【 WHAT I'M 】→ reading || for goodness' sakes, read more, plz

• This Is Awkward ↣ Sammy Rhodes

✔ 【 WHAT I'M 】→ watching || series I'm following

• 30 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E29: Episode 29
  • Faysal/Fessy evicted, 4-1
  • SCOTTIE GOT REVIVED
• 29 Wed ▸ Big Brother S20E28: Episode 28
• 29 Wed ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E07: Week 4, Part 2
• 28 Tues ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E06: Week 4, Part 1
• 27 Mon ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E05: Week 3, Part 2
• 26 Sun ▸ Big Brother S20E27: Episode 27
• 26 Sun ▸ Big Brother S20E26: Episode 26
  • Scottie evicted, 6-0
• 26 Sun ▸ Big Brother S20E25: Episode 25
• 26 Sun ▸ Big Brother S20E24: Episode 24
  • i'm actually getting teary-eyed, watching Scottie's BB gameplay getting destroyed by a pack of liars
  • take it back im actually crying tears @ 42:05
• 20 Mon ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E04: Week 3, Part 1
• 16 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E23: Episode 23
  • Rockstar evicted, 5-1
• 16 Thu ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E03: Week 2, Part 2
• 16 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E22: Episode 22
• 13 Mon ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E02: Week 2, Part 1
• 12 Sun ▸ Big Brother S20E21: Episode 21
• 09 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E20: Episode 20
  • Bayleigh evicted, 6-1
• 08 Wed ▸ Big Brother S20E19: Episode 19
• 08 Wed ▸ Bachelor in Paradise S5E01: Week 1
• 08 Wed ▸ Big Brother S20E18: Episode 18
• 06 Mon ▸ The Bachelorette S14E11: Live Finale
• 02 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E17: Episode 17
  • Rachel evicted, 5-4
• 02 Thu ▸ Big Brother S20E16: Episode 16

 【 DULY NOTED 】→ current events || notable news stories

• John McCain, senator and former presidential candidate, passes away at age 81 (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018)
• Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, passes away at age 76 (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)
• Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
• Omarosa publishes Unhinged, her new book about her experience as the former Director of Communication at the White House
• the wildfires in California are about the size of the city of Los Angeles

 【 DULY NOTED 】→ memes || notable online phenomena

• ?????? this month was dull

 【 DULY NOTED 】→ quotes || quote-worthy “stuff”

• “I tried being a writer, but I hate what I write. I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. You know, every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, like horses... taking dumb pictures of your feet.” - via Lost in Translation
• “Destroy the idea that a person's lack of self love makes them unlovable; instead, affirm them just how loveable they are.” - via
• “People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.” - Flannery O'Connor
• “Stop worrying about how it is going to happen and start believing it will.” - anonymous

❣ 【 PERSONAL 】→ discoveries || new things learned about myself and others

• Bro strongly believes that Weezer's version of Africa is better than Toto's Africa and I'm so upset by this discovery I'm about to abandon him as my brother
• I'm consistently inconsistent
• Aretha Franklin and I had the same birthday
• "When our desire for sex begins to push past the bounds of our desire for relationship and intimacy with God and with others, then sex itself becomes a kind of God we worship. In 'Take Me to Church,' singer-songwriter Hozier describes how sex can replace God." via Rhodes in This is Awkward

❣ 【 PERSONAL 】→ occurrences || a designated space for "well, *that* happened"

• Ma's coworker complimented me on the sunflowers in the backyard! "they're so tall, keep it up!"
• accidentally shaved off 3/4" of skin on my ankle in the shower
• me, in the fetal position, teary-eyed at 3am upon seeing the Persona Q2 lead visual

❣ 【 PERSONAL 】→ obsessions || mostly food, sometimes people

• root beer floats
• Bachelor in Paradise theme song ▸ ※
• BB20 Scottie
• garlic plantain chips
• the "In the Air Tonight" puppy ▸ ※
• listography, again :)