dec.20.2025

10:20pm

oh my god, I've been wanting to do a zine for so long. I keep seeing posts about what other people do in their zines and I'm always interested to see whatever zine people put on when they put it on their website to buy, but never show previews.

for the past 2 hours, I've been making concepts on just the name alone, and that was just listing what I like and how I could put it into the name itself. I like the color yellow, big fan of the east coast and the city life, I consume too much music and tv shows, I journal everything I can think of and take photos and videos on camcorders and point-and-shoots, and I absolutely LOVE 2000s culture.

after a while, I came up with the name "yellowjournal". it may seem like a basic name at first, but it also has another meaning as "yellow journalism" is a term for making eye-catching headlines to increase sales, which is why I want to focus on the covers of each issue to grab the readers attention. I love magazine covers because of their iconic branding and evolution in the long run, and so far, I have this cover as a concept:

it's a little rough, but it's enough to show what I want to envision.

- gabe.

dec.19.2025

7:43pm

finally started winter break. for the first time in a while, it's actually 2 weeks instead of one. but now I still have to put in the finishing touches for my college portfolio.

- gabe.

dec.16.2025

5:55pm

I know it's only tuesday but this week has been kind of a pet peeve so far.

saturday I was a little tired from mock trial, sunday I watched a movie and I didn't like it as much, monday I decided to stay home, but I forgot I had a nhs meeting to go to and I feel like I'm at risk of getting kicked out, and now today I just found out I have another mock trial game tomorrow.

I'm lowkey trying to keep my head up and I'm aware that most of these problems are lowkey on me, but I don't know whether to crash out or just take it all in and just enjoy the present because complaining about the past isn't gonna make it any better.

other than that, I tried rearraging my room so I can find a place to work on. I now sit on the floor and work on my nightstand because I don't have a desk and my room is too small place it anywhere.

also started watching neon genesis evangelion, kinda boring so far.

- gabe.

dec.3.2025

9:04pm

got my spotify wrapped this morning, wasn't that bad and I kind of expected a lot of these results. here's my summary:

mariah carey and death grips in my top five, every song in the top 5 is from all my heroes are cornballs by jpegmafia, and I almost reached 70k minutes. I'd say this is pretty accurate.

I wouldn't really say this is something to brag about considering some of these artists in the top 5 are NOT easy to listen to, but they're easy to judge since they're not as traditional as the other songs a majory of people would genuinely listen to.

It's not really shown, but I would say I'm proud to be listening to a lot of experimental artists because I have other artists to listen to that are more suited for the public, but that also leads to me not being taken seriously for certain music takes because I can like anything. I have a low tolerance of hating on music because I don't think there's a certain for what can be considered good music because people can make excuses by saying it's either "boundary-pushing" or "it's not what other artists are doing now".

- gabe.

dec.2.2025

3:04pm

yesterday, my county said they were gonna' give a weather update because it was going to be extremely cold the next day. only problem was they were gonna announce it at 4 in the morning.

I couldn't sleep that whole night after I took that nap. I scrolled in instagram reels, I began doing pull ups in my living room, I even tried to practice playing the piano. the song I was practicing was violent crimes by kanye west. I tried playing that song once last year and didn't make much progress, and now I memorized it in about 30 minutes after practicing at 3 in the morning.

around 6 in the morning, they only said we were given a 2 hour delay. a 2 hour delay is basically a 2 hour early dismissal, and I have half days so that basically means I'll be in school for about an hour and a half. I was hesitant to go to school and figured I such just take a quick nap. I woke up and the windows were looking a little too bright. I checked my phone and I realized I woke up as soon as class was supposed to end for me. I probably wasn't going to school anyway.

- gabe.

dec.2.2025

12:00am

whoops... forgot to write yesterday.

the beginning of the month was honestly boring and extremely tiring, and I'm pretty sure my friends had some type of jet lag from staying up too late during our thanksgiving break. I came home around 5pm and instantly fell asleep as soon as I got on my bed. woke up around 10pm to eat dinner.

back in the beginning on november, I was supposed to do a challenge called "no negativity november" with my friends, where I can't be negative throughout the entire month of november and just hold it in, and by decemeber 1st, we all talk about our problems throughout the past month. everyone lost 3 days in, I got second to last since it was a last man standing type of competition. we completely forgot about it but once we checked out calendars about it, we started talking about the past month. turns out everyone doesn't have much problems during the month, it was mainly just the fallout of things that happened in october and how to just move forward from it.

- gabe.

nov.30.2025

5:33pm

haven't made a blog in over a year now. my old blog was a little bit embarrassing, and it's terrible for me now that it's in the internet archive.

hi guys, currently making this short little blog just to add a little something to this website. these blog posts will probably focus on mundane events or day-to-day thoughts. I have a little pocket journal to write about the same topics, but a majority of those thoughts are too personal to be shared to the public.



I'll continue writing tomorrow, this is just a test to see if this blog would look good on this website and I'm still debating on keeping this up in the future. I don't think I'll be as active on this like I used to (and even then I wasn't even active on my old blog anyway).

- gabe.