weeknotes #13, #14
Weeknotes 23/03/2026 - 05/04/2026
Bank holiday edition, very late, forgive me 🫠
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗
- Went out clubbing for bank holiday weekend
- Went out on a forest walk and pub lunch for bank holiday weekend (with very cute friend's toddler in a yellow duck raincoat).
- Went on a pub crawl - my boyfriend has gotten very into a particular beer so we did a crawl of pubs that served it. We had a 4/7 success rate (the best one was a barlady wearing a t-shirt with the beer logo on who had to tell us that they didn't serve it anymore).
Films (and TV) 🍿🎥✮⋆˙
I watched A Useful Ghost (2026) and Chaos (2005).
A Useful Ghost is a very interesting Thai film that sells itself as a funny story about a ghost coming back to possess a vacuum cleaner, and ends up exploring oppression, class traitors, queer survival under a dictatorship.
Chaos is a terrible Jason Statham movie, he's really phoning it in.
I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️🩹
I've been thinking a lot about routine lately. Staying consistent isn't for me. My migraines have been really disruptive lately. I'm thankful they're not worse and I can largely function with medication. Sometimes this looks like dragging myself through a work day groggy and still a little a in pain. Exercise feels impossible, it aggravates it. In this circumstance, no essential routine doesn't work for me.
I need to fit things in as a when I had the capacity for them without getting frustrated with myself. This is easier said than done.
I'm looking forward to
Planning holidays and taking some time to breathe, the good weather that's forecast later this month.
I've been reading 🍵📖
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, for blook club. A stark contrast to the hopepunk of last month. It opens with a short story, The Finkelstein 5, a pitch black satire that is brutal from the get go.
Adjei-Brenyah has said he sought to use a form of "magical realism" as a tool for exploring issues such as "race and the depravities of consumer culture and our collective habituation to violence" in his writing. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal Adjei-Brenyah reflected,
I like to work in that space where, "Is it hyperbole? I don't know." When you kill someone with a gun or a chainsaw, they're just as dead either way. When I say 'chainsaw,' you have to pay attention.
Posts I liked
I've started a postroll which I have now actually linked in my directory page if you want to check it out.
See you next week 👋