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welcome to the space xan
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digitial dog dyke. friends only account, non-mutuals will be softblocked—nothing personal, kid.
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hi it's xan! you know me but possibly by a different name. i am a gay robot dog that is constantly overencumbered. please dont refer to my other name or my creative works by name when replying to this account k thx it's good to see u!
goddamn man im so sad. she was so bright
one day we'll build a world they want to live them
not brave enough to post this on main unfortunately
woke up to the news that one of my 2 best behaved & most engaged students will be out for 3 weeks

then that i have a flat tire & to get my school supplies to work this evening i'll need to take an expensive lyft both ways
i kinda regret this teaching job, and i really regret the crowdfunder, except i don’t because i needed both financially, except they are making me miserable and stressed to a complete breaking point so idk
i’ve been doing surprisingly well the last week or so, everything considered, but just ran into a wall-staring level depressive episode wall out of nowhere and it’s. frustrating.
i am just very tired and i hurt every day
niche but critically acclaimed electronic band at an indoor venue that fits 500 people max.
i gotta think about maybe trying to find a small outdoor daytime electronic festival and wearing a small surgical mask for eliminating projectile rather than aerosol spread? i just don’t know how else to really have the time i want to have. fuck do i want to go see a
well. i didnt meet my big important (already extended) deadline but i did get *close* to doing so. so i guess thats something
i don’t even know how to ask for help
my bubbie passed away overnight. she's been gone for a long time due to dementia/alzheimers. she went into hospice last week; her quality of life has been very low for awhile, this was overall i think a very good and compassionate thing for her. still. y'know.
god. services good. jewish ritual good.
i know this worked at some point and i think i need to aim for a literal t'shuvah—a returning, a renewal, a "return" to something that was once good but in which the journey goes through new paths and leads to new places. i need to try.
way to truly reconnect and develop regular practice again.

i've been so, so truly deeply unhappy for some time now & i truly *have* to change something big about how i am approaching my life.
i've truly never been happier than the period of my life when i was regularly deeply involved in jewish religious practice and while some of that was effect not cause, i think a very significant part of it *was* cause. i need to treat this city as a fresh start & find a
for awhile it's just felt so impossible. the pain of what i've lost, both in terms of communities i lost access to & my changing relationship to religious practice, has just felt like an insurmountable barrier to reconnection. but tonight i felt a really significant crack in that shell of grief.
had a really really good yom kippur service tonight. it's been a pretty severely bad couple of days, and i was dreading services pretty deeply, but it ended up being something i really, really needed.

i need to find a way to get back to regular jewish practice. it was and is so good for me.
it’s much more about not wanting to go home and go to bed then about what time things *start.* but i also really appreciate it 💙