weekly retro #60: spoony time
congratulate me on my first load-bearing gray eyebrow hair
— jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ (@jennschiffer.com) March 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
it's taking everything i've got to write this lol. i multi-tasked too close to the sun and burnt myself out from the computer, but at the end of this file and deployment is a scoop of peanut butter covered in chocolate chips waiting for me. i call it "spoony time". welcome to the weekly retro.
my allergies were so bad this week, it messed with my sleep a lot. i think i should go see an ent, but i also think i need to see my primary care doctor to get a referral first. it's such a stupid system.
i made my first silicone mold ever and it was a nightmare lmao! at the very least, i got the most cursed part of a doll head molded, so it wasn't a total flop. when i'm not in the ceramics studio, i'm often coding or reading about code and so i've been very slowly working on my next candle collection which will be out in may along with some ceramics wowowow. speaking of code, this weekend i remotely attended atmosphereconf, which was fantastic thank you for asking.
the weather's been nice so between studio sessions and remote conference sessions i'd go to the gym and to the yoga studio i've been trying. i took my first ever silks class and i really liked it but oh boy does my core need work! i think i want to do more conditioning before i go back and try the intro class again. i've got a lot more heavy muscles to pull up into the air than most of my classmates!
i wanted to try out a different platform for small blogging (you're reading my big blog) and so i started a little art blog on pckt, which is pronounced as "pocket" and is atproto-connected. i wrote about a strokes album cover and adapting to tremors. tumblr ads are insane so pckt has been helping me post and find small blogs without being harassed about sports betting and prediction markets.
i bought my first underglazes and a glaze! this week i'll be putting them to work and experimenting with painting onto clay. while i understand that ceramics are quite unpredictable, i think my vision is possible and i know how to get it there. anyway this week in class we learned how to trim our closed vessels. i even threw that handle off the lid - which means i threw it while it was on the lid i trimmed vs. making it separately and attaching it or making it while i was throwing the lid. i don't know if this makes any sense, moving on...
things i enjoyed this week
- we met up with some pals at sappe in manhattan, and everything was so good. the shrimp fried rice was maybe my favorite of the dishes we got for the table. i love drinking a thai iced coffee at dinner time, it's one of my favorite special treats.
- i follow a couple of professional ballerinas on youtube because they are good models of discipline and not taking themselves too seriously in an art form some take way too seriously. anyway, i was especially moved by this don quixote performance vlog by madeline woo of the sf ballet
- this breakdown of the vomit mechanics in rollercoaster tycoon went so deep into such a weird part of a game i never played, i now want to play it so bad.
- normally i'd wait until i finish reading a book to recommend it, but i'll make an exception for cookbooks. i made two dishes out of ham el-waylly's 'hello, home cooking' and i was, as expected, very pleased. the fact that he opens the snacks chapter talking about final fantasy 7 helped make him a better prep cook is so funny and real.
okay, it's spoony time. and tomorrow is robot karaoke @ wonderville time. if you're in the nyc area, join us there from 7-10pm!
xoxo jenn