gonna try this thing where i don't look at my phone until after i've had breakfast and stuff. i need to figure out a whole routine, but for now just having breakfast should be good. or maybe, like, i will be able to listen to something, but not check socials etc. i got a new phone for the first time in four years earlier this month. (thanks ariel). and since the screen is bigger, i find myself looking at it more, which isn't good. i think my screentime has gone up two hours, and i think that's because i stopped using my laptop as much. because of the bigger phone screen. but the youtube ads play twice and multiple times per video. i can't stand that

and in order to dispel any sort of gossip, yes, i had the same phone for four years. the first se. the one that looks like the five-s. and i did that on purpose. when i got it, i told myself i'd make it last. it was a good excercise in being environmentally conscious while getting the full use of something. i got the new se, the one that looks like the eight. it's black. wish they had a pink or something more interesting. white and red weren't doing it for me

my birthday is on friday. i'm hoping to go on a road trip, but i know, the whole covid thing complicates that. still, i wouldn't really be going out into the public. i'd be driving west into the desert. hoping to leave noon on my birthday. still planning that out. it's a twenty-two hour drive, and it's only diego and me right now. coming back from school (which i moved out of a little over a month ago) was roughly the same time and that sucked. and that was between three drivers. so, who knows. i'm down with the discomfort. i don't mind in the grand scheme of things. but diego might. hope not. i can't really think of anyone else to invite. cause i'd feel weird asking someone who diego hasn't met, but also, all our mutual friends are either not really that close to us, or have already said they can't. i'm gonna see him tomorrow, so i'll ask then what we're thinking. straighten that out.

yeah, i moved out of my dorm. i finished undergrad. i have a degree coming at some point. there's a chance one of my minors won't be on it, but i'm confident that won't be the case. i still haven't taken my stuff out of the boxes, which considering it's been a month, is a little alarming. i'm just lazy

i've been learning to skate over the past two weeks. right now, my progress isn't too substantial, at least not in any sort of impressive way. which is fine. so far i'm still gaining confidence on the board. def better than i was the first week. i won't feel like i've done much til i get my ollies down. it is hard when i practice on my own, since kaijah has been busy with work. but i've managed to skate with another friend, j, a couple times now. some pointers from them have helped. still, just gotta be confident when on the board. biking is so much easier... and more therapeutic. but it's been fun so far, apart from a few bruises