Lifenotes #44: July 2024
Pride, Steelcon, and a break from therapy
✨ Highlights
- Had some fun dinners with my lovely friends 💛
- Checked out the dinosaur themed crazy golf that opened.
- Went on some fun dates.
- Ran out of ADHD meds, and boy was it rough! It’s hard to tell when brain meds are working, because well, they just work, but I can tell you I missed them immediately 😅
- Went to Steelcon in Sheffield with my pal Mark. Despite not being a security person, I had loads of fun and met many nice people. Also it was the same day as the Crowdstrike thing, so the jokes were on point.
- I decided to take a break from therapy. I feel like I made a bunch of progress and want to spend a bit of time ‘just living’ to see what that’s like.
- I’m managing to stick with yoga, which is very exciting.
- Went to Pride with my pal Nisha, she let me crash the firefighters’ section and we had some fun watching drag shows after 🌈
🎮 Played/Read/Watched
- You’re the worst: I’ve been recommending this to friends recently and it’s made me rewatch it. Still makes me laugh, and still makes me cry a little.
- The Bear series 3: It was a good series, but I don’t have much to say about it.
- Kinds of kindness: This was a really fun watch, Jesse Plemons in particular was excellent in it.
- Why is Chile so long? - Uncharted Territories
- Oldboy: They were showing this at a local cinema, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. It is still so good!
- James Acaster - Cold lasagne hate myself 1999: I’d seen a bunch of clips of this already, but it was still a fun watch.
- Hannah Berner - We ride at dawn: Again, I’ve seen her on TikTok a bunch, so this was more of that in long form.
- What they don’t teach you about money by Claer Barrett:
- One of the main ways ADHD affects me is impulsive spending. It makes me steal from my future self and goals for an immediate dopamine hit. So I read this to inform some steps I want to take to manage that a bit better, and it’s a most excellent read.
- I listened to the audiobook version, and I can’t recommend it enough. It covers a lot of ground, and does so in a clear and non-judgmental way.
- Search party: I like the premise, I like the cast, but it fizzled out for me a bit, I watched the first series and started the second, but left it there.
- Other people’s clothes by Calla Henkel:
- At first I was a bit wary of the annoying protagonists, but I did really enjoy the story, and once I was about halfway through I ended up staying up late to see what happened at the end!
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