Currently reading: I finished the Old Testament around two weeks ago and started to read Franz Kafka's short stories like The Metamorphosis and The Judgement before following it up with the New Testament. Reading The Metamorphosis was compulsory back in high school but I was too lazy back then. However, based on the summaries I found online at the time, I got the impression that it's probably worth my time to read it through one day, so that's what I did.
Currently playing: Deep Rock Galactic still mostly, but Picross 3D: Round 2 gets played by me too a lot on my 3DS. I rediscover how great this console is every six months or so.
Team Fortress 2 has just got its last comic issue released after seven years without a sequel. It got quite bittersweet near the end; not the story, but the fact that the comics are over and we received some closure. The game is now almost eighteen years old, I played it first when I was still in middle school, followed me all the way through high school and university, and I'm sitting here now with a completed bachelor's thesis under my belt, somewhat-but-still-not-quite ready for adulthood. I'll write a blog post about my memories with this game, even though it's far from dead (and probably will be for a long time).
Yeah, yeah, I'm finished with my thesis with the defense and final exam being at the end of January, 2025. I'll probably be working full-time in cybersecurity by then. The meeting regarding the end of my internship will be next month.
Starting from today, I'm writing a journal entry ideally every day on my computer. Journaling was a hobby I did in high school and it went strong for four years, with 800-900 pages written in total in an ODT file. Things started to speed up around me, which I considered a welcome change, but that meant I didn't have that much time for writing every day. Dedicating 4-5 hours in bulk for catching up with my journal and writing two weeks worth of happenings down felt more and more like a chore.
This year, I felt frustrated many times because I couldn't remember even what I did the week before. There could have been so many sweet moments that have gone out of my mind never to resurface again as memories, that I can't afford the luxury of not writing them down.
Now, I'm taking a plaintext-Markdown approach, so I can run a static-site generator (like the one I use on this site: Soupault) on the entries for when I want to browse them or write bash-scripts for statistics on the text I've written, just to keep writing interesting and learn more about scripting in the process. Writing plaintext files gives me so much freedom over the content, not to mention that it's compatible with almost any type of computer. I don't need to install the bloat that comes from Microsoft or any kind of office suite, I can write stuff on whatever device I have at hand.
My current music phase is rediscovering Squarepusher's Ultravisitor album now that my girlfriend got me the 20th anniversary remastered vinyl. Abacus 2 and Iambic 9 Poetry being the highlights of the 3LP for me. Apart from that, Chris Clark's Sus Dog album gets a surprising amount of plays from me, the titular track being my favorite one of the bunch.