Category: Personal
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Duolingo
I’ve been slowly catching on to the fact that this is an entirely different kind of language learning. Altogether.

Quit ’em if you smoke ’em!
Relapse all you want, brain. I’ll just quit again. I could do this all day.
Read-Only
I don’t know who needs to read this, but after around 15 years I finally have to admit social media was a mistake.


Music to Remember By, Part 4: Go Through All This Before You Wake Up
The final part of my playlist, which is mostly about feeling a connection to other people through popular music.
Music to Remember By, Part 3: Our Dark Shazamless Days
My playlist of memories continues with Starbucks Music and hazy recollections of the 1970s.

Music to Remember By, Part 2: Driving and Forgetting
Day 2 of the playlist brings repressed memories, homesickness, lots of driving, and feeling slightly more connected to the Japanese people

Music to Remember By, a Weeklong Playlist
Compiling a playlist that didn’t help me sleep, but did start me on a weird ride though my teens and twenties.
Pride* and Prejudices
Thinking about the meanings of “pride” and “queer” and the problem with living your life according to someone else’s standards.





