choosing to walk (away from AI) | yours, tiramisu
The scale in our bathroom ran out of batteries this week. My body hasn't registered this fact yet: I keep standing on it and staring at the blank screen, the...| yours, tiramisu
The scale in our bathroom ran out of batteries this week. My body hasn't registered this fact yet: I keep standing on it and staring at the blank screen, the...| yours, tiramisu
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
One of my students has been too busy to work on her writing recently. Normally when this happens I just give students time to work in class, and most are hap...| yours, tiramisu
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
The timesheet for my part-time job says I've worked more than 20 hours last week. It's nice feeling like I have some control over the number in my bank a...| yours, tiramisu
The timesheet for my part-time job says I've worked more than 20 hours last week. It's nice feeling like I have some control over the number in my bank a...| 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
5:30 PM. I just woke up from a short nap after work (full-time) and I have about an hour until I have to get ready for work (part-time). I've been te...| 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
It's ten in the morning. I'm sitting on a wooden chair in my room. A breeze brings a hint of fragrant morning dew through the open window. The robins are...| yours, tiramisu
This time around in New York I've not been diligently documenting where I've been and gone to eat. Part of me says who cares, nobody actually pays attention ...| yours, tiramisu
sent me this cool about blogging the other day and one of the pages on it is a list of . It's a great list, even if I didn't know the answers to many of th...| yours, tiramisu
I've been turning aco's musings about originality in my head this week, not least because they closely resemble some of my fears when I first started b...| yours, tiramisu
