女人真聪明

・Sometimes I think Dreamwidth is essentially an updated decentralized form of Mass-Observation. (This is a good thing; I love the M-O diaries etc., and there's something of the same pleasure in reading various people's accounts of their everyday lives here.)

・Lots of work (much of it actually interesting, which is good, but bad timing), health so-so, not writing nearly as much as I should, although the characters are still there in my head. In August if I don't have a lot of work I might just try and declare a week of all-day writing and see how much I can do.

・The supermarket here sells fruit vinegars in the summer, so I bought a bottle of lemon vinegar and have been drinking it with lemon seltzer over ice; excellent quasi-lemonade, not too sweet, not too tart.

Assorted Chinese-related fun
( 我会很认真 )

・One gets spoiled by how easy things are to find on YouTube. I heard Liu Chang singing something I liked (晚婚, a c-pop standard on the old-fashioned side?), went looking for it (I’m kind of pleased with myself for having reached the point where I can hear enough of the lyrics to google a line successfully) and found several versions, none of which hold a candle to Liu Chang’s rendition as far as I’m considered (seriously, his high note on 他能不能...<3 🎵). The only thing is, it’s only available in the middle of much longer videos on B站, so it’s kind of hard to recommend to anyone. (To do so anyway, it’s from about 33:20 to 38:10 here.)

・Photos: I don't seem to have a lot lately, but here are some nice cool ones: a pond at the university up on the hill, some flowers oddly enough named Takarazuka, my latest veranda bounty.
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Be safe and well.