- Had amazing Bhutanese food with Genevieve and Kelly C. Zhego in Woodside!
- Playing lots of tennis and having the most humbling losing streak. 0-4 matches up until yesterday where I crushed in Central Park. I think the clay surface is a bit more forgiving for my lack of agility on the court.
- Crafting with Fiona and Annie yesterday and eating food in Sunset Park and being convinced to read War and Peace
- I caught my first fish today! A little striped bass. I couldn’t dislodge the circle hook from its mouth though, so Dan had to help me.
- The weather is sooooo beautiful.
- I hope I can drive up to see the Orionids next weekend :)
I really liked this book. The writing was slow but easy to read. The subject matter felt magnetic, like I kept wanting to keep reading.
The book is about a woman named Miri and her wife, Leah, who went on a submarine trip to the deepest part of the ocean and came back wrong. It follows both womens’ POVs, with Miri’s serving as a way to talk about their relationship, while Leah’s was about the experience of being down there in the ocean and the psychological state of her crew members.
...- My apartment is sooooooooo beautiful !!! I just had to take down two doors (One of them is behind the kitchen door, and the other is hanging out by Puppycat’s litterbox. They’re so heavy)
- I’m able to easily swim 500m now with my breaks in between a lot shorter. I think I can push myself even harder. But I’m so happy to swim with such ease now. Shouts to Lorenzo who swims on the very left lane from Astoria Pool who checked my form when I asked him to. The tips that worked best for me: 1) reach straight out when about to pull instead of crossing my head 2) stay there for as long as the glide allows me, I should feel my obliques with the reaching 3) look even more straight down than normal so my head pushed down helps my legs push up and not sink. I even breathe better because of my head position now :)
- Puppycat is being so cute. I love him!
- Grateful for my job and work environment right now
- Going to US Open Fan Week tomorrow ! Yay !
- I haven’t been drawing very much and missing it. I can start whenever I want though.
- Love the books I’m reading right now. Love the movies I’m watching right now.
- Saw a cicada, an isopod, some chanterelles and even more fauna and flora
- A summer of being unemployed and weirdly miserable and injured last year has majorly put a lot of things into perspective for me. It’s a beautiful day outside and life is so so so sweet!
Right now each entry’s markdown file is appended with the title I give as an argument for my
make entrycommand.$(shell printf "%q" "$(TITLE)")But when there’s spaces or punctuation, the backward slash fucks up the file name. It too so long to figure out how I can replace the spaces with a _
$(shell echo $(TITLE) | tr ' ' '_')at long last !!!
It’s okay to eat a few grain mites that are plaguing my flightless fruit fly cultures because I need to feed my mantis and my cat before I go downtown to see Moving (1993). It’s okay 👍👍👍
I’ve spent less than 5 minutes back on SoundCloud and I feel like music is worth listening to and discovering again.
I’ve been saying that I’ve been in a “music slump” for almost over a year now. I thought of various things that might help me out:
- going to live shows
- learning to play an instrument
- listening to just noise
But none of those really worked. Live shows because I haven’t gone to one since the pandemic started and am still a bit too worried about crowds. Also because the kinds of music and musicians I want to see live have dwindled down so much, I don’t even know who I’d love to see that much anyway. (I am going to see Chinese Football in October after Annie told me they’re playing, but even this I’m mostly interested in getting a look at their merch lol)
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