reflections

one thing i will need to do is post on this blog more frequently, but not as frequently as before (at least until glitch shut down). outside of a rabbithole journey i'm currently detailing in something that's of interest to me, i do ponder if i will be able to dedicate as much time and resources to what i aim to achieve compared to before. since i'm an incoming college student, it means that dramatic life changes are coming, including personal changes. i'm studying to prepare for future academic material, after all.

something i want to get back into is using my computer and watching live tv. the only thing about live tv is that there's only so much entertainment that i enjoy, especially on predetermined channels. i assume that's the appeal of on-demand streaming, since you can pick ANY show to watch to your heart's content. the problem comes when there's too many choices and so little action. yes, one could watch the entirety of the netflix, hbo, and disney catalog, but how many people are actually going to do that? so much money, so many options, but so little time.

i've been back on my phone, but not as attached to it as i once was. i no longer cry when i lose my phone for longer than two minutes, i deleted all of my social media (it wasn't like i used social media much anyway), and only consume the content i aim to watch. if i want to watch a specific subtype of video, i have to look for it. youtube recommendations are very limited to me, but that's a good thing, since i can actually curate what i want to watch instead of what a trillion dollar corporation's algorithm predicts i could watch.

i'm also getting a flip phone as a graduation present! i should be receiving it around the time i start college, which would be a good pick me up. i'll talk more about the little device once it's in my hands, but at the moment, all i'm revealing is that it's a japanese flip phone and is compatible with us carriers! it's coming in black, although i'm not really picky about the color. hopefully, i should be on my smartphone less once the tiny gadget arrives! it has android 8.1 and allows for sideloading apps, which should be good for when i want to download something without an app store.

it also removes the convenience of being able to download whatever i want at a fingertip's graze, but it's for the best! it's the small inconveniences that birth a slightly more interesting day. i have a bunch of albums, mp3s, loaded for when the phone arrives. of course, it's all of the albums from my digital cd collection on my old website, but there's more too! i added thursday, thrice, finch, more saosin and eyes set to kill, etc. i originally made it with my future flip phone in mind, but ultimately stuck to it.

overall, school will probably occupy me, and i will need to occupy myself before, during, and after classes. i'm studying college algebra in advance, in case i need to take a math assessment test (and overall refresh myself on algebraic concepts). i plan on updating this blog once a week because of that.

tldr: i will be busy with college soon, planning on retrieving a flip phone, intend on watching live tv, using my smartphone more mindfully, and generally being more in the moment.