One time, years ago, I complained to Grant that I didn’t understand why anyone cared so much about sports, especially when they’re not playing it. Grant said something about it being one of the few things that can unite people across different social aspects and get people really excited towards a shared purpose. I spent…
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101 things about me
If you asked older people how much they’ve changed since their 20s they’ll say “so much!” and the same. And how much between their 20s and 30s? “So much!” What about the last 10 years? “So much!” How much do you think you’ll change in the next 10 years? “eh, maybe a little. I think…
August 2021 reads
Well, first of all I did make it to the plant and I made my partner take a picture of me through the live stream. It was quite large. I have honestly not totally gotten back into reading until the last few weeks, but here I go! Fiction Redwall by Brian Jaques Why I chose…
“How are you doing!?” they all asked…
I’m going to see a corpse flower today. So called because it smells like “a mix of rotting fish, sweaty socks and hot garbage” source It’s an endangered tropical flower that might take a decade between flowering events in the wild, but happens every 2-3 years in cultivation. People have been asking me about the…
June 2021 reads
June was wild. Most of my friends and family have been vaccinated for at least a month and restrictions have eased up and so we started seeing more folks again. After one and a half years of isolation, any event planning would have been dramatic, but this month was a whopper. Multiple camping trips, I…
May 2021 reads
I don’t know if it’s always been the case or it is a natural progression from psychology books, but if you noticed I’ve been reading more self-help books lately, I guess that’s true. I mean, I already read professional development books in general, so I was practically already drinking tea in the living room of…
What would you say you do here?— Not explaining to my friends what my career is for 6 years
Updated some things on May 26, 2021 I was definitely a graphic designer at one point. In fact, I was pretty insistent on that fact for a while because I had been an English major before and was trying to get design work. So if you thought that’s what I do, that’s totally fair. It’s…
April 2021 reads (+ some soapboxing)
My introductory rant this week is on a new fact about Amazon that makes me angry: Amazon prohibits digital books it publishes to be available to libraries. It is the only publisher that does this. Turns out, the tech giant has also become a publishing powerhouse — and it won’t sell downloadable versions of its…
“What are you currently obsessed with?”
My partner has gotten into the habit of walking behind the couch to see what I’m doing on my computer. Usually it’s because I’ve been totally zoned out letting the glow of the screen give me life. Usually it’s because I’ve been this way for hours. “Again?” he says. “You don’t know me,” is my…
March 2021 reads
I knew this month that I wanted to keep reading fiction books, but I also have been trying to read more books by Asian authors. It crossed my mind that it feels like…like I would hesitate to recommend a book with Asian characters to my friends because I fear it would kind of come across…