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nnozomiDaily life: I don't even know where to start with the state of the US; all I can say is I hope no more people will be hurt or killed, and to quote my mother, hope that it will make a difference, a good difference. I'd like to think all the terrible things are happening at once in 2020 so that the next few years will be better, but... kenahora.
In ordinary close-to-home news: fuck headaches. I have so much respect for people who deal with chronic illness/pain/etc., given how demoralized I am by a few days of not-even-migraine headaches.
Slightly brighter news: I took some of the photos I've posted here and tried making postcards out of them and it worked a treat, so now I have a stack of pretty cards to send to my mother and my parents-in-law. Long-distance filial piety has to be better than none...
Music: A lot of my dad’s piano jazz recordings, because I needed soothing. Cradle music.
Books: Rereading Helen Thorpe’s amazing nonfiction books, in this case The Newcomers and Just Like Us. Compassionate thoughtful well-informed journalism that reads like a novel.
Chinese: Still Duolingo. I need to pick up some other practice methods—Anki, Memrise, ChineseSkill??—to reinforce a lot of vocabulary and just see more different sentences, but I haven’t managed it yet. (I do have the Guardian Anki deck I managed to make, and could at least review that…)
Writing: Reasonably steady progress; just hit 35K. I learned one interesting thing about a minor character that could come in useful. The next scene involves specialized knowledge/awareness well out of my wheelhouse, though, so I'm not sure how it will go or if I should just veer around it.
Be safe and well.
In ordinary close-to-home news: fuck headaches. I have so much respect for people who deal with chronic illness/pain/etc., given how demoralized I am by a few days of not-even-migraine headaches.
Slightly brighter news: I took some of the photos I've posted here and tried making postcards out of them and it worked a treat, so now I have a stack of pretty cards to send to my mother and my parents-in-law. Long-distance filial piety has to be better than none...
Music: A lot of my dad’s piano jazz recordings, because I needed soothing. Cradle music.
Books: Rereading Helen Thorpe’s amazing nonfiction books, in this case The Newcomers and Just Like Us. Compassionate thoughtful well-informed journalism that reads like a novel.
Chinese: Still Duolingo. I need to pick up some other practice methods—Anki, Memrise, ChineseSkill??—to reinforce a lot of vocabulary and just see more different sentences, but I haven’t managed it yet. (I do have the Guardian Anki deck I managed to make, and could at least review that…)
Writing: Reasonably steady progress; just hit 35K. I learned one interesting thing about a minor character that could come in useful. The next scene involves specialized knowledge/awareness well out of my wheelhouse, though, so I'm not sure how it will go or if I should just veer around it.
Be safe and well.
