IN

• reviewing old narratives
• homemade loaded fries
• getting invested in video games

OUT

• putting all my eggs in one basket
• prioritising work
• ruminating instead of processing

started on 24/09/2023

native fruit: oranges

- villagers -

• iggly (penguin; jock)
• cherry (dog; sisterly)
• eunice (sheep; normal)
• merry(cat; peppy)
• norma (cow; normal)
• curlos (sheep; smug)
• o'hare (rabbit; smug)

october '23

last chance

sea creatures

• sea cucumber
• snow crab
• spider crab

bugs

• tarantula

fish

• ✔ dab
• tuna
• blue marlin

fresh faces

sea creatures

• lobster
• sea pineapple

bugs

friends i'd love to have come live on apricity

normal:

• fauna (deer)
• gala (pig)
• gladys (ostrich)
• goldie (dog)
• daisy (dog)
• ellie (elephant)
• maple (cub)
• savannah (horse)
• skye (wolf)
• sylvana (squirrel)
• tia (elephant)

cranky:

• gonzo (koala)
• bruce (deer)
• butch (dog)
• chief (wolf)
• lobo (wolf)

• avid reader, west end
• folio books, cbd
• archives fine books, cbd
• mary ryan's, new farm
• scrumptious reads, red hill
• ✔ riverbend, bulimba
• cystic fibrosis, nundah
• ✔ the book merchant jenkins, west end
• clarence corner bookshop, woolloongabba
• koorong books, woollongabba
• cumquat books, annerly
• lifeline book shop, toowong

WORD OF THE YEAR: glow

• i'm going to follow things that bring me warm contentment, deep in my chest
• it's a love letter kind of year
• even new year's day started off rainy and slow and gentle. we're setting a mood for sure

reading

• braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer (audiobook)

watching

• letterkenny s4

playing

• everdell
• kingdom hearts 2

• georgina
• georgie
• jordan
• julia
• sylvia
• judy
• patricia
• nicole
• sasha
• tasha
• bridget
• emma

• bottle rocket
• rushmore
• the royal tenenbaums
• the life aquatic
• the darieeling limited
• ✔ fantastic mr fox
• ✔ moonrise kingdom
• ✔ the grand budapest hotel
• isle of dogs
• ✔ the french dispatch
• ✔ asteroid city

• it's not about happiness, it's about serenity and curiosity
• it's not about doing the most or doing it perfect, it's just about doing it
• keep! shit! to! yourself! at! work!
• adults don't know better than you about everything. you literally are an adult now
• over-explaining just makes it harder for people to hear you
• showers always help with emotional overload
• you like working out and you like waking up early and staying up late is the fucking worst
• there's no objective measure of being too much or too little re personality, it varies depending on what other people feel like in the moment let alone in general
• find the ease a la yoga w adriene
• i have real agency and responsibility for...

• animal farm - george orwell (112 pages)
• ✔ the great gatsby - f scott fitzgerald (144 pages)
• ✔ narrative life of frederick douglass - frederick douglass (96 pages)
• frankenstein - mary shelley (166 pages)
• orlando: a biography - virginia woolf (134 pages)
• chronicle of a death foretold - gabriel garcia marquez (122 pages)
• the prince - niccolo machiavelli (164 pages)
• ✔ black beauty - anna sewell (118 pages)
• the souls of black folk - w.e.b. du bois (174 pages)
• twelve years a slave - solomon northup (199 pages)
• ✔ songs of innocence and experience - william blake (56 pages)
• ✔ the little prince - antoine de saint-exupery

jan

• the princess and the frog (2009)
• wind, sun and stars - antoine de saint-exupery
• breakfast at tiffany's - truman capote
• mr and mrs smith (2005)
• open water - caleb azumah nelson
• labyrinth (1986)
• wanderlust: a history of walking - rebecca solnit
• bless the daughter raised by a voice in her head - warsan shire
• call us what we carry - amanda gorman
• homecoming - elfie shiosaki
• how to make a basket - jazz money
• blakwork - alison whittaker
• frizzy - claribel a. ortega

feb

• binti - nnedi okarafor
• honeybuzz (board game)

• the knights radiant from the stormlight archive
• state of grace by taylor swift
• the strengths of the different enneagram types
• "and now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good" - east of eden, john steinbeck
• q: your most precious emotion? a: the yearning and will to become a better person, - kim namjoon
• "live life as a study in love and work" erich fromm

• ✔ tokyo skyline
• ✔ i.s.s.
• ✔ bonsai
• ✔ museum dinosaurs
• ✔ succulents
• ✔ orchid
• ✔ saturn v
• apollo lander

• when marnie was there (hiromasa yonebayashi/et al)
• ocean waves (tomomi mochizuki / kaori nakamura)
• my neighbours the yamadas (isao takahata)
• ✔ only yesterday (isao takahata)
• ✔ from up on poppy hill (goro miyazaki/hayao miyazaki&keiko niwa)
• ✔ whisper of the heart (yoshifumi kondo/hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ spirited away (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ my neighbour totoro (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ princess mononoke (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ howl's moving castle (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ kiki's delivery service (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ the wind rises (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ ponyo (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ castle in the sky (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ the tale of the princess kaguya (isao takahata)