Now

Updated: May 12, 2025

This is a now page. Essentially an answer to the question, “What have you been up to recently?” I update this page as the focuses of my daily life ebb and flow.

Feeling

Last time I updated this page I wrote about Wordle. Since then I cultivated a 65 game streak, then pared back my committment to "I play on occasion when I feel like it," then finally down to "I quit and I'm tired of this game." I still regularly receive updates from people on their daily scores, which I entirely ignore—but which also might rope me back in to the game this summer when things are more relaxed.

I am feeling accomplished and nervous. I've spent a big chunk of time since December renovating this website and its guts. It is now working almost exactly as I always wanted, including RSS and JSON feeds. Now the hard part is finally beginning: the actual production of words and stuff. What I truly believe about myself is that I like to tinker with ideas and systems, but when it comes to having something to say, I shrink and never take the first step. I'm the nosy neighbor who won't live their own life. That changes today.

Thinking

I don't have a single thought these days except Let's try to finish these website projects. Get back to first principles and find the simple things you enjoy. Maybe that is actually a thought I have: I am trying not to be seen wearing AirPods around the house or in the company of others. I am listening to fewer podcasts, and two little tweaks are improving my focus on everything I do.

Watching

• Evil—spooky one feat. Ben from LOST. The will they/won't they plot lantern is too heavily leaned into, but the religious vibes are fun.
• Severence—watched this with multiple household members. Rewatching is rewarding for this one.
• House of the Dragon—took the plunge on the GoT universe last year and blazed through it all. This is why watching TV is dangerous; what a thrilling and soapy timekill.

Listening

Visit my listening page for the most up to date catalog.

• Elliott Carter's Violin Concerto
• Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto
• End of the Middle, Rich Dawson
• Antigone, Eiko Ishibashi

Reading

• The New Yorker—back issues, because I'm waaay behind—and not trying hard at all to catch up
• My Brilliant Friend & The Story of a New Name, Ferrante