Credit: Anonymous friend. Genuinely I have no idea.

For the first time in a very long time, I feel like I’ve got the whole summer ahead of me, mine for the taking. And I’m not sure what to do with it!

Summers of Yore

The last few years have kind of sucked for various reasons, or have just been busy in Not Fun ways.
Last year I spent most of June visiting family, and even had a weekend with friends out on the lake. It was a great time, but I spent a full month away from Chicago during what I quickly learned is the BEST time to be in Chicago 🙄

To be fair, it’s a pretty good time to be at a lake too.

The Game Plan

On the docket for this summer so far:

• 🦊 Anthrocon 2025
• 🏟️ See a Cubs game (I haven’t been to a baseball game since I lived in St. Louis a decade ago!)
• 🏙️ Architecture riverboat tour with parents
• 🍗 Bristol Ren Fair
• 🚴‍♂️ Bike rides (especially Critical Mass)
• 🎨 Art Fight (not really a traditional Summer Activity™ but it’s always during July…)
• 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Parade!

A bit of a reset

Most of what I’ll be doing though is relaxing. With my job search and my Spring spent working on this (and other) websites, I haven’t had much time for my other hobbies. I haven’t drawn a thing a since December,¹ and I’m very behind on my reading.

Hopefully soon after posting this blog post, the new Books section of my website will be done :3c
Be sure to check it out if you want to see what I’m reading, and what I’ve read!

I’m also hoping to grind out the last 5% of body fat from my current cut diet. As of time of writing I’m at ~17% and the goal is 12% by the end of August. Probably can do it sooner! But we’ll see…cutting like this is so difficult. Gonna have to resist a lot of good summer cookout food 🥲 Maybe I should give Sardine Summer a shot huh

Argent Real

With a goal of “finished by Anthrocon”, probably the coolest thing I’m doing this summer is turning into IRL Argent 👀

Courtesy of the gf! Argent is her 3rd fursuit head she’s made, and I think she’s doing an incredible job :3

Just look at those shapes!! That’s SNAKE!! That’s me! Wrwow.

Thanks for reading! If you have any cool Chicago summer activity ideas please let me know 👀… I’m still new enough to the city that I know I haven’t even scratched the surface here.