My life is going to be isopods
January 2026 diary
Yes I skipped december, because I was just too busy with moving and it wouldn't be an interesting read anyway. I'm still not really settled. I got most of the stuff out of boxes, and where I want it to be. But I still have to get a table (eating from a picnick table is fun, when you're picnicking) and my bookcase which is still at my ex's house. In due time...
I finished Jane Eyre, really enjoyed it, didn't love it as much as Wuthering Heights. Why was the end rushed like that? Glossing over a firstborn, hello? What did I read 300 pages about St. John for?! Jokes aside I really liked it despite my frustrations with it.
I watched Frankenstein (2025). Well... I liked it at first, but I soon learned lots of things were changed from the original. If you are going to make an adaptation of a masterpiece, why would you change any important plotpoints? Other than the ones that won't fit in the medium, you can't improve it even if you wanted to... my message to filmmakers out there who want to adapt a work such as Frankenstein or Wuthering Heights: consider yourself an amplifier, and stop making arrogant changes to a story that is already perfect the way it is because the result will almost certainly be worse! Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Anyway the isopods! I am going to study isopods inside and outside of the city. It should be interesting because they are generalists, so I actually don't expect a big difference in fitness...
Lastly I'm feeling a bit disillusioned with how much stuff and junk I have, and humans in general. I wish I could live without it. I feel like, living in the modern world, we aren't really given a choice. Though there are people like Rob Greenfield (if he's even legit) who can do it, but how could I? I would have to change my entire life, and my country is also not really accomodating to wild living. But it would make me happy to reduce even 20%. I have too many of everything (bags, coats, notebooks, clothes, books). I make an exception for books because I consider them a hobby. But clothing is really unacceptable and notebooks that I don't want to write in because I want to keep them precious...? And don't even get me started about the digital hoarding. Is our entire life spent collecting and then reducing stuff? That's not what I want. I'm not a hoarder by any means, but there is always a voice in me that says 'but what if you need it later' or 'what if you regret it'. That has happened a couple of times, and might be the most psychologically painful feeling to me there is, so I try to avoid that at all costs, and that means I have a lot of useless junk. I might just get a big plastic box, walk through my house to see what I use, and throw the rest in there and put it in the attic. If I haven't touched it again in a year, it goes.... Cosmetics is another thing, but those will simply run out, so I'm not too worried about that. I'll at least not buy anything new.
Favourite song
Kate Bush - Lake Tahoe