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Locality, Displacement, Jane Doe Effect?, Empathy and How to Process the News
I’m sitting up in a hotel bed in Las Vegas while my parents snore nearby. It’s only 8AM local time but I’ve been up for a while, working on New York’s schedule for the day before I head back to Houston...
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Entry Scraps
I have a severe back log of entries I wanted to write, but no time. Life is kind of frantic and in the process of a lot of change. Change, maturation, escalation, transition, etc. When the backlog is...
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Protected: Career Switch Decisions (PW: college dorm)
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A few things. Mumbo jumbo.
Driving I’m driving a tiny cobalt blue Accent on the numerous highways in the Falls Church/Tysons Corner/Fairfax area, tapping my fingers at the wheel while the sun sets in front of me. This is a...
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I have a confession to make.
I don’t really like Taylor Swift’s music; I mostly tolerate it, and I really, really, really hate her Welcome to New York song. Like, El-P hate it: “Taylor Swift’s ‘Welcome to New York’ Makes El-P Want...
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Europe Travel Journal: Milan, Florence, Venice, Santorini, Paris, and Iceland...
I’m making a small mini-site in the style of Paul Stamatiou’s travel mini-sites, coupled with 40 Days of Dating‘s split screen format, but in the compromise to not inundate the actual site with too...
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The Secrets of Life
I came to post a running list of the aphorisms that resonated with me, but the list stopped at “fake it till you make it” (and maybe some variation of “to get what you want, don’t try too hard”), but...
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Aging Mindfully
Reporting in as a “milestone” on the path to growing up, since this blog has become my “field notes” for the transition from childhood to adulthood (the kind that my future kids will assume I have...
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New Year’s Resolutions for 2015
Flashback to one year ago! Not even one person in this photo is in the same city tonight, but I guess that is part of the charm of this time last year. New Year’s Eve will be a small affair for me...
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Live a quiet life and work with your hands
The Fan household was bustling today on this rainy, wet first day of the year in Houston. I’m not sure how many more times I’ll be able to come back this next year because my new job will be much less...
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Working on my 2014 recap video
Alright, I’ve been dry from Gilmore Girls for 24 hours, mostly unintentionally. Renuka was leaving for Boston tomorrow, so I spent the afternoon catching up with her and Chris in the only neighborhood...
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Desultory: Desk spaces, photo blogs, modern Chinese society
I didn’t do anything particularly picturesque today, so I had to take a photo of my workspace. Bummer, I feel like a lot of these will pop up over the next year, but I actually really enjoy looking at...
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Almost back to real life
Somehow, three weeks flew by and now I’m nearing the end of my “winter break”. I shouldn’t even be having winter breaks this long as someone in the workforce, which my mom was quick to point out — “you...
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Blew the fuse at the last second
Dammit, I almost went through an entire time at home without fighting with my dad, but literally in the last possible moment, I got impatient and he flipped out, dragging my entire life’s portfolio of...
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Freezangry, the feeling of rage coming from single digit weather
Oh no! I missed yesterday. I tried to type it on my phone late at night, but my ice cold phone came crashing down on my ice cold face. I’m not good at typing while lying down, and also not good at...
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Warm Spaces
Today should be my last day of de facto lockdown, which also means it will hopefully be the last time in a while that I have to take a picture of the inside of my bedroom. At least you get to contrast...
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End of One Era
Oops, I missed another day :( Track record isn’t turning up very well. I’ve mostly been blogging late at night, but when I don’t have my laptop close, I have yet to find a good substitute. I even...
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My Turn Towards Food Culture / Book Club Discussion of Gone Girl
A Newfound Hobby of Grocery Shopping This was a slow weekend, and I spent most of Saturday loafing around at Dean’s. We went to Fairway and bought a humongous spread of food, like pastrami gravlax,...
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First Day of the New Job
I took a first day of work selfie (sort of) when I started my first job in August 2012, so I took another one today. From 2012: I wore almost the same thing… heh. (I think my legs are way more toned...
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Happy Hour Hustle
I spent a lot of time struggling with Squarespace, jQuery, Bootstrap, and all-in-all a lot of things I already know how to do, but felt so noobtacular today that it kind of drained me. I finally...
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