My mother told E a story from her youth, one that she hadn't shared with us before:| A parenthetical departure
what's your favorite calvin and hobbes comic again? time travel to avoid homework[^1] past, present, and future calvins argue about homework assignm...| A parenthetical departure
I didn't realize until I went to the Queens Night Market again today that I hadn't written on the blog in a week. I'll add that to the list of things I've completely dropped the ball on. Oh, where to begin?| yours, tiramisu
The Queens Night Market has been on my radar for a while now, but fatigue and plans have conspired to keep me from it every Saturday evening I remember it ex...| yours, tiramisu
I with and the title I received is: Things I envy others a little for. — Humm. I was telling someone that envy is I least identify with. But I am n...| A parenthetical departure
A bit of an odd day today— for starters, at work I didn't get any emails all day. Somehow I didn't think anything of it until I couldn't find an urgent email my coworker messaged me about that had come in today. He even sent me a screenshot of it and there was my name in the To field, clear as day. It was only then that I realized all the pop-ups asking me to restart Outlook were trying to tell me something important. The restart flooded my inbox with emails starting from yesterday afternoo...| yours, tiramisu
For the first time in months I found myself free on a weeknight my work team was playing. These circumstances did not come about how I wanted them to — I canceled a class out of frustration since one of my student’s parents did not return my repeated emails asking to confirm class times for a week, only for them to respond minutes after I'd volunteered to play in the game — but I tried my best to shake it off and enjoy the game.1| yours, tiramisu
I took a few days off from work to visit M and explore DC for the weekend. This is my third time in DC — the last time being two years ago, the first a decade before that — so with the most popular tourist attractions out the way I had the luxury of taking things a little bit more slowly this time around. The weekend ended up being even better than I had expected — fun, jam-packed with good food and activities, and deliciously tiring. The heat from the week prior let up mercifully these...| yours, tiramisu
Getting here took twice as long as it should have, between the heat and flood watch, but I'm finally on the train! It's been years since I took a cross-state train trip. My train is filled to the brim. I thought it'd be quieter on a Thursday morning.| yours, tiramisu
We ran out of rice in the apartment a few weeks ago, so today J and I used that as an excuse to go on a food crawl in Flushing / Murray Hill. ...| yours, tiramisu
3:10 AM, listening to Laplante play Ravel. I am not usually up at this hour. I went to bed before midnight, slept until about 2, and have been tossing and turning since then. Common advice says to just get up if you can't sleep, so here we are.| yours, tiramisu
Woke up early this Monday morning to work so I would have time to clock out for a doctor's appointment. I wasn't sure about the appointment time and Mom didn...| yours, tiramisu
My last classes for this cycle start in about an hour, after which I get a week off until the next cycle. Short as it is, this break comes as quite the relie...| yours, tiramisu
I deleted WhatsApp today. It is the last of Meta’s products I use, and has proved the hardest to get rid of. I first got the app to message new friends wh...| yours, tiramisu