She went to the coffee shop.

I went with them.

They brought her own computer.

At least I think it was hers.

They bought themself a coffee and a pastry.

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I finished reading the book Loveless, and then crying for like ten minutes after, and what can I say but wow. I love this book; this book spoke to me at my core. The experience of Aro-Aceness portrayed in this book mirrors my experience, my coming to turns, and many of the feelings and a lot of the fears I have had remarkably well. It’s quite spooky. I swear some of the lines written in this book where stolen right from my brain. I really do wish this existed when I was a kid it really would have helped me alot¹. This book discusses so many experiences of aceness in such a humanizing way. The story is so soft and wholesome the characters are quirky and funny, but in a real-life way, no one is a caricature of some stereotype. The way this book discusses friendship is incredible and honestly has even helped me work through some of my own ace-related existential fears. I loved this book. If you’re one of my friends reading this, or I guess some random person, and you want to understand me better read this book. If you wish to understand aro-aceness better or just better understand — one example — of the aspec experience read this book, you won’t regret it.

I listened to the audiobook partly because I couldn’t actually find a hard copy online at the time of writing this. Also, because for fiction, I often enjoy audiobooks more, and it was well done if you’re an audiobook person recommended it.

If you want this book you should be able to find it here². Anyways I’m gonna cry for another twenty minutes about this book now

PS.
To the author Alice Oseman. Thank you.

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It is a backpack with some great design choices, however, it is very opinionated with these choices. The bag has a way it wants you to use it, and if that doesn’t work with you this probably isn’t the bag for you — you have to adapt to the bag and not the other way around. The backpack is centred around one core affordance: its ability to lay flat. Every design choice this bag made is centred around that one decision. On the Baron Fig site, they explain the bag as:

Opens flat, creates an instant workspace

This captures how Baron Fig wants you to use the bag. It’s a bag you fill with just the stuff you need to work, and when you get to your office, you splay open your bag or hang the bag fully open on a hook and access the contents this way.

If it sounds perfect to you, maybe you should think about getting it. However, for me, this design is very limiting. More often than not, I pack my bag for the day and just pull things out when I need them. Rarely am I in one spot that, 1: I have enough room to open my bag lay it out and fully unpack it, and 2: if I am going to be somewhere for long enough that I could justify sprawling out the odds of there being enough room to do that are pretty low. Imagine going to a library or a coffee shop and having 2½ feet of space to lay your bag open. The other issue that being able to open flat causes is that the zippers need to go all the way down the sides meaning this bag doesn’t have what I like to call a ‘stuff slot.’ You know, that spot in your bag that holds stuff without a defined pocket. Often for me this is temporary things that I may bring for the day but don’t exactly belong in the bag. While you can just throw things in this bag because of those zippers, you have to be careful when opening it and trust me I’ve been a little too rough and have had shit thrown about the room more times than I wish. The last issue the open flat design causes for this bag — and it is a small one — is that there isn’t any pocket for bottle whether it’s on the inside or out, and because of the previously mentioned lack of a stuff slot it’s hard to carry a water bottle around even it’s just loosely. So while this bag is wide enough to hold a 15 inch laptop and an iPad in the designed sleeves for each, because of this design it’s not gonna hold much more and that defiantly something to keep in mind.

So even though I’ve only really mentioned things that I don’t like about this bag, nonetheless, there are some really lovely features of this bag that I wish others would copy. One of them is, funnily enough, the other selling point of this bag what Baron Fig likes to call ‘swing pockets.’ They are called this because you can swing your bag on one of the straps³ on the front. There are pockets on each side that are the easily accessible and pretty good size I’d say they are a little bigger than an iPhone 11. This itself, while nice, isn’t special. There are a lot of other bags that have this feature. Still, one thing the Slimline Backpack that I haven’t see one other bags is that these pocket are these pockets are both accessible from the inside and outside of the pack. This is a genuine, really great feature, and I wish more bags did.

Overall this is a bag that has a way it wants you to use it. It’s a bag that knows what it is and doesn’t try to be anything more, which is commendable. However, it is something you need to keep in mind. If that sounds great, and you think this is the backpack for you can buy it here⁴ at the time of writing its $85. Aswell Baron Fig recently added some really excellent colour variants for the bag I’m particularly a fan of the Glacier Blue/Yellowgold varient. But, what I learned after about a year of using this bag is that it wasn’t for me, and that’s ok.

The best camera is the one that’s with you

This idea, that the most expensive camera in the world is worthless if you don’t have it when you need it, is exactly why I love the Pen Type-C by CW&T.¹ For a few years now, I’ve been carrying a Field Notes in my front right pocket for the purpose of writing, sketching, or just jotting things down when something comes to mind. However, to be honest, these notebooks sat in my pocket and stayed basically empty. More often than not I would just use my phone (something I would prefer not to do as I get distracted very easily), or I wouldn’t write the idea down at all. The reason for this being that I didn’t have with me the other crucial part of note-taking: a pen. The Pen Type-C solves this issue.

The Pen Type-C is a flat-bodied pen with a clip. So unlike most other pens (that are commonly round), this pen can easily attach onto the front cover of my field notes and remain slim enough to fit inside my jean pocket with relative ease.

This change is a pen-carrying strategy that revolutionized how I was able to use my field notes when I wanted to jot something down. I didn’t need to think where my pen was; it was just there, and I could just go straight to writing my thought down. So sure this pen may not be this most comfortable pen to write with, it may not flow the smoothest, or have the best refill, but it’s the pen I always have with me — so as the saying goes — it might as well be the best pen.

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