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A page that updates periodically about what I’m up to and into right now. You are viewing the version of this page from June 15, 2026.

Making

It's been mostly gig work as of late, although I've tried to get something for-fun out when I can, just a poster or something.

The main big project I was hacking away at all year has finally shipped for real. The printer has it now and it'll be out in the world soon. Which feels good and hopefully gets me some of that sweet, unquantifiable Exposure but also means the freelance slice of my pie is back to crumbs. Ups and downs in this industry.

The part-time library job is really not bad; everyone is nice, it feels like I'm part of the community, kids sometimes say something funny to me. But what I actually need is to land a remote design job that pays dependable money so I can extend my thinking into the future and depend on having some money. Ah, well. Don't we all, I guess.

Doing

Quite a bit, since the end of April, including neglecting this page completely. I did some other writing on the Neocity and newsletters and stuff.

In May Lauren was on vacation with her family for a while, so I got a little taste of the bachelor life, which always feels like a judgemental angel is showing me an alternate timeline where I don't have her around to keep my ass anchored to the earth. Five years ago a week home alone would have been a huge prize but this year I still had to go to work and stuff so the only real difference was that I went to bed too late and made burgers at home.

This past weekend we were back in Adams County to celebrate in rapid succession a large number of nearly-coincident family birthdays. Some of Laur's cousins had flown in from California and Washington to Hanover, Pennsylvania, which was a real thrill. They probably eat (I shudder to think it) Lay’s chips out there in the vast wastes beyond the habitable range of the Utz supply chain. Really, really funny moment to drive around our dinky hometown and have somebody from Los Angeles ask with complete earnesty where the clubs are.

I've been aching to take a whole day off and walk around shooting photos now that the weather's nice but so far I have had too much work to do. Maybe Wednesday I can excuse it if I lock in today.

Thinking

I didn't go to therapy for a little while because I was switching insurance and it took a long time for them to mail me the shit I needed, and also because I am lazy and it didn't seem like the #1 most important thing to be doing. But I finally have all my documents and I rescheduled for this week, so I have been pregaming by cataloging and ranking all of my brain problems so I can get them aired out in order of severity. No, I won't be reprinting that list here. You guys read my posts, you know what's wrong with me already.

Reading

It's book-bingo season, so I am trying to line up and knock down as many squares as I can. The library prizes for the drawing are like, gift baskets with two books and a candle in them, which is of mo interest to me really, but I like having a reason to read outside my lane (young-adult fantasy? normally I would never!).

Right now I am trying to pump the gas and finish Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander. Jeff is kind of hit-or-miss for me; like, Annihiliation is incredible but Borne I just couldn't stick with. This one is alright. No other author is thinking about or mentioning mold nearly this much.

Listening

I spent a lot of time in the car with my girlfriend the last few days so mostly I have been listening to the new Noah Kahan album. The flannel-and-jeans flavor of it is not really for me but he does do a great job capturing what it's like to be from a dinky town that you love nostalgically but hate intelectually.

That paragraph was already on the April 30 version of this page but it's true again so I'm gonna just leave it in. As for what I'm listening to on my own time, very few repeats—my “queued up next” list is about 120 albums long so when I'm home I'm chugging through it. I did discover Orbital's 1996 record In Sides last week and I did listen to it stoned Friday night and then put it back on the next morning and again Sunday. It's really fun to find something you've never heard that sounds completely new to you but is 30 years old.