Made a Part 4 Jotaro cosplay this year, my favourite of all his outfits (and Part 4 overall). I really dig the whole marine bio look: simple, yet pretty badass at the same time; White is awesome.
Got a 1.5 mile walk in, & about 45-50 min on a recumbent bike.
Feeling better today. Nebulized already.
Up early, caffeinated. On my lunch break now.
Laundry is going. Time to walk the dogs 🐕
I addressed my loneliness with some extra Journaling this morning.
I know my marriage went bad, but I miss the companionship & cuddling. My ex turned out to be a cheater who manipulated me and financially abused me tho, so I don't miss that shit. I haven't spoke to them in years. Sometimes it is just better to cut contact completely.
Caregiving is lonely. Working from home is lonely. Not living in town is a little lonely too because it's not like I can just pop by someone's house. Everywhere I can go involves more driving and is less accessible, especially in today's corporate world.
My gf got sick at about the time i was starting to get restless, so I am giving her space to heal.
I am trying to refocus that intensity back to myself. Focus on my goals. My shit. My stuff.
I am recovering, I am trying to allow myself more rest.
Summary: This story is a collection of scenes (mostly from Buggy's and Shanks's childhood and young teenage years), full of sad!hurt!Shanks, who's haunted by nightmares after being sexually abused, and Buggy dealing with his redhead's nightly terrors and odd behaviors throughout the day (not to mention his own insecurities).
Or: Shanks develops a lot of very unhealthy coping mechanisms, and it takes Buggy years to understand what has happened to his friend.
I've just passed my one-year anniversary of working for Omeka. Around that time, I was approached about a local project here in Hamilton that had gathered and translated a stunning 1500+ testimonies from Ukrainians since the start of the invasion in 2022. They needed a way to get the anonymized stories online, categorized, searchable, and browseable, with an eye to creating some narrative structures stringing the stories together in the future. Of course, I thought Omeka would be perfect for the job, and they enrolled on omeka.net.
I spent a few weeks getting the site front-end together, and perfecting the spreadsheet for one big import into Omeka Classic. I used a staging site on my own server to practice and get the team's approval on the metadata profile and design. We investigated a multilingual design, but ultimately found .net doesn't support that well. We added a map and some timelines based on the regions relevant to the testimonies. The team had already coded the interviews by location, and some demographics such as age, education, and marital status, all of which are browseable. They have so far published a simple first digital exhibit highlighting a theme from two testimonies. The site launched with an academic event two weeks ago and has since seen about 1,400 visitors.
I hope you'll spend some time exploring these stories. I was grateful for the opportunity to work on such an important project. As an archivist, I rarely get the chance to contribute my expertise to something so current and contemporary, nor so in line with my values. (And it provided me a great opportunity to analyze the functions of omeka.net from a user perspective, too.)
I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences