11/14/23
Long time, no see. Mostly I pop in every couple months to add gifs and change the GOTD but hopefully I'll have more time to edit my site now. It's getting dark at 6:30 now so I'm returning to internet hobbies. I need to find a better way of hosting my own pictures on Neocities, because the only way I know now is very disorganized. Also, I'm getting tired of my theme but I refuse to delete any of my site, so I've considered making a sister-site with the same blog content but a different aesthetic and gif page. There's probably an easy way for me to change themes as I wish, but I'm not knowledgable about HTML and I'm GOD-AWFUL at CSS.
I've been really busy with school and work, but my first semester of college is almost over now. I'm excited for cold weather and christmas. It's still 70 degrees here most days, which isn't too bad, since once it gets cold it'll stay that way through March. I've started rollerskating again and I'm pleased to discover that I've retained most of my skills from last year.
Anyway, I'm off to fiddle with the site some more and stockpile more gifs.
01/10/23
Today I added a list of the concerts I've been to to my homepage, plus a list of concerts I'd like to go to. Unfortunately most of my favorite music is from artists that have changed their style or died in the last 15 years so it's impossible for me to see them play the music I'd like to see. Sometimes I think I should have been a teenager in the 90s.
Could have seen Hole, Tool, Nirvana, MCR, FOB, Slipknot, Type O, Linkin Park, Static X, Evanescence, The Offspring, Bikini Kill, Veruca Salt, EVERYBODY in their primes through the 90s and 2000s. The Offspring and FOB are still touring of course, but I'm not a fan of their newer music. God, don't even get me started on Panic At The Disco. Brendan Urie, if you're reading this: stop making music.
Sometimes I want an ipod for working out, but it's hard to justify buying one since I already have a phone and it's way more convenient to use spotify premium than manually download MP3s onto an ipod. Still, digital ownership and subscription media is a joke and I want to use my phone less.
01/08/23
Got back from my birthday weekend today! I went home and went bowling with my friends and caught up with everyone. Every time I go home I'm so thrown off by all the new buildings around. and the traffic. Truly the death of the small town #misanthropy. Still better than the city. In the city, outside doesn't smell right and also, everything is terrible.
Anyway I had a great time. Got a black and red birthday cake and forced everyone in the car to listen to MCR and The Offspring. A few days ago Tim took me to the museum as well and that was really nice. I was sort of off-put by the idea of not being a teenager anymore, but alas, the unstoppable march of time.
01/04/23
Today I spent a long time looking through geocities archives. There's some really funny/interesting ones, but the ones that really stand out to me are the ones in the Wellesley webring. That webring is a community specifically for women, and I'm so touched by the websites these women were making. Moms making memorial/awareness pages for their children who died in accidents, women sharing their healing journeys in a time where discussing trauma wasn't as normalized, women organizing lesbian picnics just to celebrate eachother, women making websites to share reproductive health resources just because they think it's important!
There are women posting poetry, self healing resources, asking visitors to reach out to them, arranging meetups, advocating against substance abuse and drunk driving. I found several "sisterhood" type groups that existed only to make friends and build female solidarity. I wonder where these women are today. I hope they're well. I feel like you don't see many things that are so innocent and wholesome on the internet anymore. It's mostly advertisements and social media posturing. Even advocacy posts have the sour taste of corporate backing and/or "educating" an audience. But on the old web, it was just amateurs creating spaces for themselves to do what was important to them.
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