a pale slim ghost

is Kara Brightwell

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how IN PROGRESS was made

by Kara Brightwell

album cover of IN PROGRESS by ASYMPTOTES, showing those words very large blended into a dark photo of a stream in a forest

IN PROGRESS is the new album by ASYMPTOTES (me), out now on 972276 Records DK. here's how each track just barely came together.

BLOOD BLISTERS

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weeknotes #2: a real burger made out of cow

by Kara Brightwell

1. i went to the office, and it was normal

  • i went to the office, and it was normal?
  • i've gotten weirdly good at self-administering a lateral flow test
    • Kara Brightwell: skilled at scraping her own tonsils, and inserting things too far up her nostrils
    • imagine showing that my to myself eighteen months ago
    • she'd probably go "oh okay so, uh, 'Kara', i see, that's a thing we did, okay. wanna make out"
  • i had a desk assigned to me, and it was by a window, and it was in a building that isn't my flat, and i got to go there and not be in the same 46m² forever
  • i saw like. twenty people. in an office that has capacity for like fifteen hundred.
  • i had a burger, a real burger made out of cow, from a fast food restaurant, with cheesy fries
  • it was so normal!
  • this is genuinely the best thing i've been able to do for my mental health during the entire panettone
  • i'm going back like. twice a week now, fuck it

2. trying not to burn out

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weeknotes #1: fried liver attack

by Kara Brightwell

1. WOW I HAVEN'T BLOGGED IN A WHILE

  • hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke

2. okay so i'm the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what's up with that

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