27/12/24
Merry (belated) Christmas. I managed to pick up a new Kindle for myself in order to save on shelf space, and have been making decent headway on properly organising my room. Even though I told him not to, my partner spent way too much money on me for Christmas, so I ended up carting a lot of stuff back with me after I spent the afternoon with him on the 24th. I'm very grateful he got me a lot of nice things on his trip, don't get me wrong, I just get very weird about people spending money on me, haha!
21/12/24
I've been trying to get back into the swing of coding, so I whipped up this re-do of my "now" page to include a nice little status.cafe addition and microblog, mostly just because they looked fun. Being productive is a little hard right now given my lack of energy, but I managed to find a nice gift for my partner's family and talked to an old coworker today, so at least I did something. I really need to finish my Christmas shopping and wrap some presents, though...

Currently

I'm currently in my post-graduation slump. Not too much to say here, getting a job in the current market is rough and not being able to utilise my degree kinda sucks. I know the new year will be kinder to me, though!

At the moment, I'm playing Persona 3: Reload, as well as Final Fantasy XIV. The large amount of free time I've been afforded is a good opportunity to catch up on my backlog. Though... I have been going back to Overwatch a lot since it's really been tickling my brain in the right way. Illari and Ana are too much fun to play!

I'm currently looking forward to the release of Sai's 10th anniversary album. It's hard to believe SideM has been around for ten years now, and that I've been a producer for five! My second favourite unit had their songs previewed the other night, and I've instantly fallen in love with them. All of the songs shown so far have been amazing!

One goal I'm pursuing at the moment is improving my fitness and strength for karate. I want to do fighting tournaments in the new year and grade for at least two belts in 2025, so I'm going back to training early, studying terms and continuing to exercise (albeit lightly) during my "break". Shout-out to Nintendo for inventing Ring Fit Adventure, my abs are in pain for the greater good right now LOL.