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Now

Last Updated: 2025-07-11

This is a now page, more about them at nownownow.com.

I’m keeping things intentionally somewhat vague for the sake of my privacy.

Education

I’ve just finished my undergraduate degree in astronomy, and I’ve lined up a spot in a very good Astronomy PhD program. Currently making arrangements to move there.

Hobbies

Desktop Ricing

I used to be on Hyprland, but since the release of XLibre, I’ve switched back to X and am currently using dwm. I’m really enjoying having the flexibility that X provides again. Wayland, almost by design, makes it difficult to rice stuff properly.

Zoom works perfectly on X, even in the browser. I could never get that working quite right on Wayland…

I’ve also adopted many other programs in the suckless softwork suite, include st, slock, and dmenu. Now that I am more familiar with C than I was when I last tried to use them, the experience has been much more enjoyable and I cannot see myself switching back.

Also, in response to the recent unacceptable behavior on the part of RedHat, freedesktop.org, and GNOME, I have decided to purge their software from my system as much as conceivably possible. I have also started trying to remove other sucky software from my computer. Currently, my system is completely free of the following:

Health

I am currently working out four times a week, doing an upper-lower split. I am aiming for a low rep range on most of my exercises, which is what I prefer, and doesn’t seem to affect my gains much.

I plan to switch to an Arnold split (arms/shoulders, chest/back, legs) once I move to go to graduate school, and to re-organize my exercise programming to include more isolation exercises.

Art

I’m kind of busy at the moment, so I haven’t had time to work on art at all recently, but I’ll start again once I regain my footing, either over the summer or during the fall semester.

Plans

Here are some of my plans for my life in the moderate future (next few years), for me to come back an look at to stay grounded in the bigger picture of my life.