i ordered a pair of grado sr80s off ebay for what i would have paid for sr60s on amazon. i'm happy with them. i think they look cool, in a retro sort of way. they sound good too, though i do wish i couldve tried the 60s as well. (i'm typing numbers.... i'll let it slide this time)

i have also started looking at a pair of philips. also open back. they supposedly have a more neutral sound than the grados, but i do enjoy the highs on these. still, may be interested in getting the phillips for the desktop, since they have a swappable aux cord, which means i can replace it with one that comes with a mic. i diy headset. they would have been slightly cheaper, pre-mic cord added cost. i don't want to think about it too much. i'll get them when i do, if i do

biked fourteen miles on monday at like, peak day. i had to pick up some library books. i should've had them sent to the same one, but i picked on library in the heights and one in my neighborhood. i had intended to pick one up earlier than the other, but i kept putting it off and eventually decided to just knock it out in one day. the heights library, a more affluent area, just gave me the book. the fifth ward library, far from affleunt, gave me the book in a bag along with bookmarks and information about how to properly dispove of kitchen grease. a pamphlet, a bag to put grease in, and a plastic scraper to put the grease in the bag. is there some kind of message here? is my neighborhood particularly prone to producing kitchen grease?

i went to a protest at a courthouse last friday. it was an attempt to halt evictions being processed that day. they said to get there at seven a.m. so i had to take the bus aroundd five-thirty to make it on time, which ended up not mattering since nothing really started until almost eight. and i got there before anyone so i walked around the place. i saw some people i recognized from when i've done shifts outside the jail in downtown, but they didn't recognize me. which is fine. it was more of a, i'm leaving just ast they're getting there interaction. i'm just good with faces

anyway the protest stopped nine of twelve hearings. which is good. i'm not denying that. but while people were celebrating, i found it hard to join, because i felt like we failed to an extent. sure, there was a net positive, but those three hearings potentially spell violence for a person or multiple. which, i know that pain, won't get into it, but i know the kind of trauma that can cause. i hate it. so i refused to even clap for myself cause it wasn't enough to me