🌲︎ felled oake 🌲︎

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notes:


this'll be in order from today to oldest

"post" contents will probably just be random things i do or think of on any given day


blog:


9 / 11 / 2026

i didn't exactly intend to forget about updating the site.......... :)
in reality i just got swamped with real life, and managed to find the time to get back to this on this most unfortunate day

but i'm not gonna talk about that, because that's dreadful and mass death makes me feel ill! so instead i'd like to
wish a very happy 25th birthday to one of my favorite albums, the glow pt. 2 by the microphones (phil elverum, now "mount eerie")!
in fact, i recorded two covers of songs from that album today! or rather, re-recorded one and newly recorded another, along with
some other scattered selections from nik's music emporium.

~~~

in other news, college.
screenprinting was cancelled due to low enrollment so i had to switch it for a sociological mathematics class :|
not that it's boring (i'm going to be learning pythagorean tuning which is sort of relevant to me!) but i was just looking forward to
learning a new art form i guess.

in other other news, i also managed to snag a spot in an introductory philosophy class for some easy credits that has
built in good reading material, led by none other than my favorite professor who taught the religious philosphy class
that i was in two semesters ago.

~~~

i've also been going deeper into taoism which i've spoken about sparsely on twitter and not even once here. i don't really know how
i could speak precisely about that as i'm still a rather new practitioner, having first read the dao de jing only a year ago or so,
but i've grown to love the perspective it gives and the spiritual animistic philosophy without the need for religious deities or external
explanations to the goings-ons on earth. it goes hand-in-hand with the philosophy of panpsychism as well, which i've
felt a belief in since i was around 16 to my memory. this connection is through the concept of qi, but i don't want to go into
too much detail or else this'll become a bit of an essay...

~~~

as for the political situation, everything sucks and i wish i could disappear. but that won't happen so i just have to endure.

i got some new sweaters a couple days ago. that's always nice. temperatures will conveniently be dropping a lot
next week, which is always nice. there's a nice cafe in mount clemens called the black cat. i might go there sometime once the
temperatures fall further. or buscemi's. i like sandwiches.

i can't really think of much else to type.

i love my friends dearly :)

today was weird

anyways. thanks for reading

- foake 🌲︎


8 / 15 / 2026

yes it'll technically be the 16th when this is published but i'm typing this at 11:57 p.m.

pretty strange day. woke up at 10 a.m. which already set things off differently, as i'm the type to stay up late and subsequently
get up late over the summer (the dreadful night owl curse). had an espresso to wake me up but it did next to nothing. but the
reason i got up that early was because i was gonna see my beloved high school marching band's first performance of the season :)

got there and immediately felt the usual "anxiety-ridden-band-camp-stomach-drop-&-nausea". guess i still haven't overcome the
slight mental anguish of realizing "oh shit i'm gonna be in deep pain for a week away from home". but i'm in college so luckily
i was just a spectator. that was probably obvious though. but when i got on that grass field to walk to a couple people
i instinctively started using proper marching technique (straight legged + parallel feet + heel-arch-ball-toe + stab-close)
even did the "push -> one-cross-two - three - four"-and-so-on vocal in my head.

it's a show about dreams though! and a best friend of mine who i helped out a lot in my sr. year got a solo (trumpet)! very very
proud of her. also very proud of the mellophones. i miss playing the mellophone. probably will at the alumni game.

there are a couple jazzy bits in said show too, which reminded me of my senior year show about golden age hollywood
and all the music surrounding those films.

other than that, i got a lot of "hello"s and hugs there. it reminded me that i still have friends despite being so very
socially withdrawn and partly inept in my conversational skills. i actually felt ill because i was unsure if
anyone there would remember me despite having graduated just a year ago. i even got to say hi to and hug my
french horn mentor. i miss being in that band a lot. so many friendships that i just don't know how to maintain now that i'm not
in the same place as them every day. that proximity made it much easier and less stressful to schedule out.

~~~

i slept for a while after that right when i got home. i mean i had only gotten four hours of sleep and i'd woken
up hours before i usually do as i typed above.

~~~

then at around 9:30 p.m., i got a call from my brother who was at a mutual friend's house. apparently he got a
'71 lincoln cont'l mark iii as a project car and needed help moving it to the curb, so i went there with my father
who's got insight into that era of automotive tech. that thing was rusty as all-living hell but it was beautiful too.
revved like a monster.



   

~~~

but yeah. today was unusual, teardrop-inducing, fun, and reminded me that maybe i am loved by some people.
thanks for reading as always kind internet strangers

- foake 🌲︎


8 / 14 / 2026

changed my college schedule a bit :) i dropped sociology of religion and intro to public health for screenprinting and
descriptive astronomy, as i figured i took a class for my religious studies minor last semester but hadn't taken a
printmaking minor-req'd class since last year's fall semester, so maybe i'll do like an alternating pattern for my
minor classes if i'm able to. and in terms of intro to public health, that just covered the same gen ed as descriptive
astronomy does, and i'm no longer looking twd med school (now i'm on board for grad school instead) so i figured
"why not have some fun" yknow. space is awesome. i still have to switch from a B.S. program to a B.A. program though.

also found out that now my driver's side front brake rotor is warped so i've gotta take that into o'reilly's some time to
get that all fixed up. probably gonna do that next week or something.

i went to a party store for a venom energy drink (black cherry always) and came back home.

and that's all :)

thanks for reading as always, whoever may see this

- foake 🌲︎


8 / 13 / 2026

i had a stressful financial aid call today. nothing went wrong but the person i spoke to didn't understand
anything i was explaining despite having access to the system where things were going wrong.

i'm supposed to pay $1.3k for tuition because i've got a couple scholarships and loans, but when i went to the finaid
website a few days ago to enroll in a payment plan, i saw that the listed amount due was $1k more than
what my financial statement was showing.

"oh yeah must just be a scholarship that has yet to be accounted for", i thought.

then i waited.

that was my mistake.

called today. apparently the 4 month payment plans are no longer available. now they're 3 month ones. that's one thing.
then the person behind the phone also wasn't understanding how my payment plan said one thing but the statement
said another thing. the entire call was just a nothingburger because she said "oh yeah just wait until monday when the
3 month payment plans open". she didn't even give me an extension despite the error being on the college's part
in terms of the aid processing and stuff.

~~~

other than that, i helped my mother decorate for autumn. that was cathartic. and now i'm typing this
after finishing the "music" page.

thanks for reading. i extend my gratitude.

- foake 🌲︎


8 / 12 / 2026

some fun things happened today:

- i made this website

- i replaced my windshield wipers

- i rotated my tires

- i played minecraft and forza horizon 6

and honestly that's about it.

i would type more but today has honestly been very uneventful for me. i haven't really had any noteworthy
thoughts or anything as of typing this. all i've really got on my mind is how i have to contact my college's
financial aid department so i can get some stuff sorted out with a scholarship that hasn't processed.

other than that, i might get a ticket to see WILLIS (synth-r&b band) live in detroit. that'd be cool if that happens.
not sure though. i like going to concerts but do't like being around so many people at once.

i should try stream of consciousness writing more. maybe that'd make it easier for me to type these out.

thank you for reading and coming to my little website, friends. i'm grateful for your interest in me.

- foake 🌲︎