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  • Charlie Charlie: the best-worst prank I’ve ever pulled

    The Charlie Charlie challenge was a game popular in the 2011-2016 era of YouTube, in which YouTubers attempted to summon and/or communicate with a demon of the same name. The game had a few variants, but most of them involved the use of #2 pencils. I don’t know the specifics, because I never bothered with…

  • “The Peace of Wild Things” and me

    Jan. 3, 2020: I wrote this in my notes app… Been doing a lot of thinking about songs and how they can tie to bittersweet memories. “The Peace of Wild Things” is running through my head forward and backward. What it means to me is so much more than its message, its frantic piano introduction…

  • what I learned in Scene Study #1: introducing super-objective

    Scene Study was a class I took in Fall 2022. We studied Chekhov’s “The Seagull” for most of the semester. I took copious notes during this class, the highlights of which I will be sharing here in small doses. Why am I sharing these notes that I paid to have the privilege to write? Because…

  • notes app entry: July 28, 2018

    On the balcony, she looked down upon the kingdom. It was quaint. Too quaint for her taste. The sun sizzled golden on her skin, and she welcomed it with a sigh. She looked down into the garden. Silly little butterflies danced across the Dusty Millers and the lilac bush, which had dried and faded from…

  • notes app entry: Jan. 1, 2023

    I’m constantly in a state of rediscovering myself but I don’t want to let that get in the way of all the self knowledge I’ve gained by being here as I am How do I let the past versions of myself coexist with the future ideals of myself I want to birth? Commentary Something about…