today’s book: Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology

Who would take me back to my playful days?

Who would save me from an exile,

that usurped my soul and lent me a false face?

— Wedding Parade, Muhammad el-Mahdi el-Magzoub

Doing well, thanks. Getting through my work week, and looking forward to a long weekend so I can relax. I have begun work on a small project that’ll keep my brain engaged (Hopefully). Exciting times :)

Wow! Sounds like you’re crushing your goal. I have ADHD and it’s a struggle to make myself sit down and read, but I’m aiming to read more books and/or listen to audiobooks this year. Reading your post is actually a nice boost of motivation for me, so thank you! lol

My week has been kind of wild so far, but I did get a new game called, “Shadows of Doubt” that is really cool. It’s a very deep, film noir style detective game where you solve murders. It does not hold your hand and allows you to investigate however you see fit, which is a little overwhelming at first but really fun.

@alyaza Great that you’re reading. I need to up my reading pace as well.

About last week, well, guess that was fine. I just got a brand new Nokia G22 as I wanted to get the experience of a repairable phone (I couldn’t afford a Fairphone and when the news broke out about its launch I immediately eyed it, as my current phone was already due to be replaced) - I really like it so far, it works just fine for my needs and the battery lasts a lot (more than one day).

I’m almost off to bed as it is almost midnight here in Romania and I caught a cold - due to which I couldn’t really sleep last night.

Edit: It’s great that you started this thread, OP. Beehaw is such a wonderful community.

I had a wonderful weekend - went to a conference titled queering psychedelics, which was about the intersection of queer identity and psychedelic medicine and science and it was quite unlike any other conference I’ve ever been to in the most wonderful of ways.

Unfortunately I also partied too hard that weekend each day after the conference and ended up waking up at like 4a on Monday sneezing and sick. I have tickets and plans to go out thurs, fri, sat of this week so I may need to sell the tickets or hope I get better by then 😩

Busy week. Exploring Lemmy in downtime. Liking the software so far but wishing there was more activity. Beehaw seems to be the most active “general” community I’ve found so far.

Pretty good so far, quite new on Beehaw, liking it so far

My immediate family members are trying to avert a serious crisis…So not too good right now.