SURPRISE RADIATION BEAM.

it is literally SO HOT today. what the squid. i know it's gonna cool down in like. a couple of weeks, but still ㅠㅠ my clouds... my breeze...

i talked to an advisor today about dropping my data class, and i got the go ahead! thank cod. i was worried i'd burn out at the end of the semester. but now i have ample time for my classes and the projects i've been doing, and rest of course~ so i'm okeydokeyokey. eep. i also got to plan out a major map for eels, so that was nice. i could declare my major by the end of next semester! isn't that cool~

my 3pm class was canceled suddenly, so i ended up getting boba and wandering around a bit. i caught an earlier train home, but there ended up being a delay... and i got home the exact same time i usually do. goodnight.

as for this weekend, i'm gonna try and focus on coding (new site, march layout...), and a bit of homework. an irl friend of mine's bday is also coming up super soon, so i'm gonna put together her gift too~

sotd: symptoms by atlas genius

low tide

i decided to go to the library today, since the internet cut out at home. i didn't go to my data lab, since i had a lot of work to catch up on. and i did get some stuff done! yay me. and my alternate midterm request was accepted; so that's a relief, for now. (ignore the fact that i don't think i'm doing well *sweats*) i also got a lot of new books to look at~

and then afterwards i tried out a new boba place and went for a walk near the bay. it's been pretty cold but today was warmer and a little humid, so i really enjoyed the walk actually, eep. it was relaxing to smell the water again. so fresh and crisp~

so yeah... nothing super eventful, but my life has mostly been school and home ever since the semester started, so i was glad to have a little more variety. and new books! those are always welcome...

february's almost over already. are you ready for march? i'm not so sure...

sotd: rave master opening korean ver. (?)

the less elegant word for mouth that references a dessert

sorry i dropped off the face of the earth for a while. it's midterm season and my professors suddenly dropped a bunch of assignments all at once, so i've been working at those (n my edits) the entire time, lolz. (real talk, i should get myself a thumb drive for all my edits... wouldn't want those to disappear somehow.)

what are your thoughts on pie? 

not far off the mainway

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today was pretty boring. this entire weekend, really. i just wanted to sleep through all of it. and get some work done, but still. i pretty much just laid in bed and watched minecraft and resident evil vids for 90% of it... 

i want to return to talking about instruments. 

kpop archaeologist

sorry i haven't updated in a while; i haven't been feeling my best.

today's sotd popped up in my study playlist today, and it brought me back to another old writing idea i had a long time ago. i hope you don't mind if i share it here. 

silken tofu

jinpudding has been completely revamped! 

it was a pretty fun process. i got to listen to lots of kpop and jpop, pretty much just copy-pasting for the most part and tweaking things here are there. for some reason i couldn't get the include directive to work on the pages for the layouts themselves (kept saying "file not found"? ugh), so i went through each page and did that manually... the page file's a little bulkier, but until i can get a better grasp of the layout directive, that's how it's gonna work.

overall, i'm rather proud of it.

anyway. you can check it out at the link on my sidebar here, or at this link. the index page is still somewhat bare, and i have some other things i want to add, but we are definitely functional and open for business. please tell me what you think~ (and please tell me if it works!!!!!!! for some reason some of my links aren't loading in my browser. i don't know if it's my computer or the site itself.)

also. while i was changing all the pages to the new jinpudding template............. kizuna (by kame) and murasaki (by akanishi) played right after each other. I MAY HAVE SOBBED.

sotd: blind spots by c418

pudding dev diary

sorry this is super late, but i just wanted to add some notes on the coding progress i made 2day for jinpudding.

i got a layout from itinerae to customize, made + added a header, my music player, links, pfp, and basic info about myself on the sidebar... also customized all the colors and icons. weirdly, it ended up looking a lot like a layout i'd use for the murasaki diaries. things like that happen, i suppose.

nekoweb recently added support for a handful of ssi directives, so i tried out the layout directive that they shared. didn't work as i expected (as it turns out, it cancels literally everything above and below the content block, so i can't customize the footers or content within the head tag as need be). i'm gonna try and use the include directive tomorrow. that means i'll have to split up my html template into multiple files, but it's worth it. it'll probably more organized, though bulkier, if that makes sense. that's okay~

i have to admit though, the process is giving me flashbacks to struggling with all the layout work for hyphenland. gah. that was a nightmare............ ㅠㅠ

also. when the absolute squid did we stop using www in urls? i could've sworn i've been using it this entire time, and suddenly all my devices are telling me urls with www are risky. huh? what? has it always been that way and i just never thought about it? i'm so confused. 

(should i have done homework with the amount of time i worked on this site today? yes................ but i did do some homework! trust. perhaps just not as much as i would've liked. haha............)

revise, retell, reincarnate

i'm having a hard time putting the images from the market into the blog post UGHHHHH ㅠㅠ i think i'll take inspo from nara and put them all in a little slideshow, n add little anecdotes there alongside the fully written review / exploration in the post itself. 

i do have something else i want to share, though, and i want to ask (even though i think i might have asked it before?): how do you feel about modern fairy tale retellings? 

extended

i just found out i've been labeling all my february posts as january.................................. goodnight

... would it be weird if i changed the theme of jinpudding to have a jaejoong header? i did define jinpudding as benevolence pudding rather than having a specific connection to akanishi, but akanishi's been my "face of the website" (for lack of a better term, taken from "face of the group") this entire time...

heart-eyed, starry-eyed

happy valentine's day!!! i hope you've had a wonderful saturday~

fairy lights and fireflies

finally got around to listening to the dashboard confessional cd i picked up a long time ago: the places you have come to fear the most. 

potassium iodide

aside from the disaster that was the amount of delays today, i tried exploring kiiikiii's discography a little more. 404 (new era) was so fun (produced by the same ppl who did monster and gravity btwwwww, and power and 4 walls and view and lotto and lucky one and lightsaber-- WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO EATTTT). i knew i had to check out the rest of their songs~ :3

i ended up loving most of the delulu pack album, it's very sweet and fun~ i also tried listening to the uncut gem album, and i really enjoy the instrumentals! they feel like songs i'd hear in a splatoon story mode. specifically octo expansion? maybe side order. it's between those two definitely, because i keep seeing agent 8 exploring the strange technological worlds she finds herself in. and, y'know, agent 8 is the most awesome agent... (sorry captain 3, it has to be said.)

what i'm trying to say is that their songs have a very empty, yet confident feel to them. like strutting around in your best outfit in a room full of mirrors. standing in a crowd on a sunny day, and the sun's rays make you glow even from a distance. all eyes on you sort of feel, in a sparkly, bubbly digital world.

(ok, but really. why does agent 8 keep dealing with the most INSANE problems. the world's going to end and everyone'll become zombies? everyone's souls are being stolen in the same of order? she's on the job. IN HEELS TOO?!?!??!!! but then again she'd have no ankle pain, considering they don't have bones. i just love agent 8 okay, she's the best ㅠㅠ)

hare at the tea party

yesterday was pretty boring. just did work and watched tv, caught up on sleep. 

but! the amount of times i looped title track by death cab for cutie was concerning, lolz. i think i'm going to end up obsessed with it for the whole month...!!! in general, i want to get more into death cab for cutie (i really love the postal service, so it feels like a given sometimes even though they sound so different). maybe i should search for some cds next time i'm wandering through the cd stores near campus.

TODAY, though????

my train was seriously delayed in the morning, so i asked my mom (who was going out towards that direction anyway) to drop me off at school. i got there on time, thankfully ㅠㅠ i was still the first person there, too. and then it was delayed on the way BACK too, and i almost fell asleep before it started moving again. i even ended up getting nauseous because of how the train kept stopping and starting to sharply. AND THEN I WAS LATE FOR MY INTERVIEW JUST NOW BECAUSE OF CONNECTIVITY ISSUES ㅠㅠ I JOINED THE ONLINE MEETING 10 MINUTES LATE. may or may not start crying curled up on the floor. time was NOT on my side today.............

in spacehey news, i've poked through some of my old layout docs, and found my stamp marquee!!! i'm gonna have to change some of the stamps since spacehey doesn't allow neocities links anymore, but i'm just happy that past me put it somewhere. they knew what to do for eels...

sotd: giants by now, now

in the light of the moon

i made a decision! my first ps vita game is... 

falling, from 1000 meters up

happy happy monday!!!! :3 hope y'all are doing well, eep. i'm currently chilling n waiting for my extreme weather class, which is in abt 10 mins…

okokok. i have to get something out of the way first. something off of my chest. something crazy has happened. but in a good way!!!!!!!!! 

candy shop

i'm gonna keep this one short since i have to get to bed soon, but.

i've been browsing the selection of games the ps vita has that i can get myself as a small treat (while i save up 4 samurai warriors!!!!!!), and here's my list right now:

• hakuoki kyoto winds & edo blossoms
• pac man world
• jet set radio
• resident evil 2

i think i'm gonna get either a hakuoki game or jet set radio first. i've always wanted to play both; the first after i watched a short drama series inspired by it (when i found out it was an otome game i got so excited lolz), and the second because. well. it's jet set radio. honestly i'd even consider it a precursor to splatoon, though it's a liiiiiittle different in regards to stances on authority? and from what i hear, the controls are a bit janky. i think that's to be expected, though, with jet set radio's unique concept.

i'm gonna sleep on it, and then try and get my first game tomorrow. i wanna make a little blog / bulletin post on spacehey to hold all of my vita developments too, eep! so i might add that as well...

(i'm sorry i'm saying eep so much. i genuinely cannot stop. i even say it in my mind)

greater perspective

eep, lots of socializing today... 

name the universe, i'll give it to you

thursday! pretty chill. got lots of napping in, did some work, did some creative things. i think i might be returning to quiz-making, but we'll see. 

i really like the way astronomers name things.

returning to

wednesday! i slept in a little too late and had to rush a little bit, but overall i feel that i had a lot more energy today that yesterday n monday...

ghost

lately, i've also been thinking a lot about just how long i'm going to keep this blog active. not that i'm going to abandon it anytime soon, no, but looking around the interwebs for old idol stuff, you see people just disappear from their accounts all the time. sometimes they come back for a few days or months, promise to keep posting, and then they're gone again. either that, or they don't post things related to the idols you found them through anymore.

i'm not saying this is a bad thing. it just makes me think.

i wonder when that'll be me, sometimes. a lot of bloggers were people in their teens, usually in high school or college, just looking for ways to pass the time and connect with others over the things they loved. but then adulthood happens, and interests change, and things fade away in one's life. 

when i graduate, and / or settle into being an adult, what will happen to this space? what will i be like? would i change so much that i stop posting? stop coding layouts for spacehey, stop poking at the indie web? i hope i don't change so much that i stop talking to the friends i've made here. i hope we stay friends for a long time, if not forever.

whenever people talk about the web, there's always this sense of permanence to it. whatever you upload will remain forever. the information you share about yourself is there forever, infinitely exploitable. from what i've seen, though, it has less truth to it than a lot of people think. online friends-- just like offline ones-- can fade away so easily. domains expire, links deprecate. sometimes you'll search for memories and find ghost towns amongst your bookmarks.

but what can i really do about the future now? preparation is never whole. all i can do is enjoy my time here, with you. i'm happy we know each other. even if we stop talking somewhere down the line (fingers crossed we won't, though), i'll always remember you fondly.

goodnight.

tethered to you

i've been super exhausted lately, for some reason.

dazzle

relaxing sunday~ i cleaned out part of the fridge, cooked some tomato sauce and pasta, worked on my layout for the swap, did some homework... ok that doesn't sound super relaxing, but i swear it was! it feels nice to get things done, even if only partway. the only unsatisfying thing going on right now is that music isn't music-ing GAH. feels like i want to listen to everything and nothing all at once. what do you guys do whenever this happens?

i don't have much else to say. hm... i'm thinking about a style rehaul, especially in regards to my hair. it's getting harder to style in a way that i'm comfortable with, so i'm thinking of cutting it down to a pixie cut. don't get me wrong, it was fun to have the 2000-2001 omar-inspired hair for the summer n i think it looks good on me, but it's a bit of a pain rn. at least if the pixie cut goes wrong somehow, i can cover it with all my hats, and it won't make me overheat walking around campus with the volume of hair i currently have. i'm not going to hold my breath that i'll even be able to anytime soon, though.

but aside from that, maybe a wardrobe rehaul is in order, too. take some things out that i'm not wearing anymore. i want to exchange those for a few more ~stylish~ pieces to it, if you catch my drift. not a whole bunch, but. enough to feel like more of an active fashionista, lolz.

sotd: when finally set free by copeland