Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 21: Good Weather

After a very hot first half of the month, May has settled into surprisingly pleasant weather here in Pune – I don’t know if I can fully trust this weather, since our “summer” has had two weeks of daily rain. We might be about to have a strange mixed monsoon/

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness

The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me. To start, here are some definitions from the book: It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 3

(This continues from Part 1 and Part 2.) After a lot of preamble, let’s get to it. When we read the Krakoa era of X-Men, what are we supposed to be reading? Sidenote: I won’t tell you exactly how long it took me to figure out what

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation

It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well. Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May

I’ve decided to start calling these “weeknotes”, since the term makes a lot more sense, especially if I want to do shorter daily updates. Things are slowly settling down. My back pain is down to nil, for the moment, so I’m glad I took the decision to … er

Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March

I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews. Comics I read: Above Snakes by Sean Lewis and Hayden

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 16: Live and Learn

It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break. Nothing spectacularly off about these few months, but my back pain kept returning, and April saw my dad falling sick again, so I figured that my health and real

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 2

(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.) The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32. In my childhood, when school was out for the summer, my parents would unceremoniously dump me at my grandparents’ house in Mumbai to get me out from

Autopilot Scheduling

After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me. The first thing

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1

In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned