Audra

I agree that the 90s, especially the late 90s, are an incredibly tempting ideal. I'd also be interested in living in a pre-industrial time period. I'd say the Tang Dynasty in China (about 600-900 AD). It was incredibly prosperous and peaceful, with a lot of societal focus on art and trade and invention and cultural richness.

I'm glad you went and had a good time! I've learned to really not find it awkward at all to do things alone. Of course it's great to go with friends or family or loved ones, but sometimes it's an entirely different kind of good to experience things just for yourself. I travel, go to concerts/shows/sports events/etc, dine out, do outdoorsy things on my own somewhat frequently. I just have a "I'd love for you to do this thing with me, but if you aren't here I'm still doing it" mindset with most things.

Trust people at work with personal information or things I'm going through. Coworkers are not always friends, even if it starts to feel like it when you're stuck with them day in and day out.

Kingdom Hearts

My goals today were: drive home from Cle Elum without flipping off any Seattle drivers (only flipped off 1!) Sort and freeze the huckleberries I picked on my camping trip (done) Get ready to go back to work tomorrow (done reluctantly) Clean all the camping gear out of my car (nope, will take it to storage next weekend.)

1. Are you introverted or extroverted? Kind of an ambivert. I can be a little bit standoffish when I first meet new people one on one, but I love the atmosphere of crowds and can be extremely forward with people I trust. 2. Are you religious or non-religious? Non-religious. I'm generally agnostic and secular, my family raised me without any religious or church connections (both were raised Christian and pulled away from it in adulthood). I have an interest in theology and questions of life and existence so as a personality trait, I'm not completely removed from it I guess? But never had the desire to convert to anything. 3. Are you into anime or a stupid face dumb dumb? I mean I am a dumb dumb, but also I like anime. 4. Have you taken a personality test? If so, what was the general idea of what it said about you? I've taken the MBTI - I'm an INFJ-A, the "assertive advocate": compassionate, helpful, organized, balance of emotions and logic. "Introverted intuition and extraverted feeling". I also took a DISC assessment at work, which is like a professional MBTI - I'm a Cs, meaning I work best in moderately-paced analytical roles with some support/advocacy roles. 5. Team Edward or Jacob? Team the rabbit-hole about how 9/11 caused 50 Shades of Grey 6. How is your aging going? (I'm assuming you're approaching 25-40 range.) In my 30s, mostly enjoying life. I sometimes feel a bit immature compared to my peers, but then I'll spend time around twenty-somethings and go "yeah nope I'm definitely in my 30s." 7. When you look back on your life... what do you think you'll regret? I think I will regret settling for things that didn't really fit me in the long run - jobs, relationships, practices - for as long as I did. I think I'll regret missing out on experiences, but also recognize that I'm still young enough to accomplish many of those things I think I might regret not doing so that may change with time.

Not trying to protect millionaires, turns out plenty of people who make art aren't that! But I mean, I prefer the millionaires who make art over the ones who make bombs and hedge funds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think we will need some sort of regulation around disclosure of AI use in music and cinema, as the tech continues to get better and less easy to spot. Right now it's obvious, but it's been getting exponentially better for years now and will probably only continue to.

Cutting off semis on the highway. You really don't want to play chicken with 50,000+ lb vehicles, and the amount of people I see swerve in front of them is bewildering.

Yor Forger

Hereditary 7.8/10.

Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. I know it's not objectively the worst, but the bar i hung out at in college played it at the end if the night when they turned the lights on and I could only hear it screeched by drunks so many times before I came to hate it, Neil Diamond and drunks.

Be intentional with love/romance. It's so easy to just slip into routine and settle into being around your partner day-to-day, but everyone needs reaffirmation sometimes. Do things your partner enjoys just because. Try new things for them. When you think of them throughout the day, follow up on it in some little way. Take the time to appreciate them. Be vocal about it.

They're great live! Ben Gibbard has a fantastic voice and they put on a consistently good show.