I suppose this isn't as inspiring as I hoped, but nonetheless a good glimpse into someone's experience with depression.
Just one quotation (really the last sentence, but it doesn't make much impact without the preamble) to share, although I swear I jotted down another one but can't find it anywhere:
The tiny bit of autumn colors that I saw this year, plus a goodbye shot of my downtown apartment.
I really liked this book too, but that's perhaps moreso due to my bias towards this kind of plot. I'm tempted to say this is the fiction book that I've enjoyed the most this year, but Fraction of a Whole is also pretty good.
Machi machi's black milk tea with pudding is the closest to Easy Go's hokkaido milk tea with milk pudding. There is a successor! ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
But woah is it much more expensive. Bubble tea prices seem to accurately reflect the increase in cost of living over the years.It's been a while since I've read a long book. Actually no, I was progressing through Don Quixote two months ago but it's honestly quite painful to read so I've put it on indefinite hold (in the company of Anna Karenina, which is a victim of poor timing).
But I finished A Fraction of the Whole and liked it and it was a pretty painless read for how long it is. No quotations to share, but the following praise is ample: some chapters reminded me of Dostoyevsky, some chapters reminded me of Vonneget, and a chapter even reminded me of Murakami.
I'd like to say that I'm too busy moving to post, but honestly I just haven't felt like it. But here's a song:
It's such a first world problem to have trouble selecting an item for purchase in the near future. With lots of sales coming the next couple of month, I have an exceedingly short list of things clothing/accessory to buy (thankfully I'm not in the mood for more household items, tea, or photography gear). Perhaps it's a good thing that the list is short, but it sure isn't because I'm not tempted to buy, or have become any less of a materialist, or even for the lack of browsing. It's really that almost nothing fits my broad criteria of:
After not playing any (non-mobile) games for...actual years (??), I recently finished Children of Morta with Jeff as well as the demo for Bravely Second.
Oh no I lied, I played For The King as recently as last year. So after not playing games for months, I feel that this winter will be the season where I progress through my backlog! Will be taking my vita along, and then connecting my ps3 to my parent's recently purchased tv to finish off those 2 Tales games.
I'm motivated to tackle my backlog because there's a few new jrpgs that are coming out on Switch, and I really can't justify buying a new device if I have so much games left unplayed (discounting Steam, ha...)
It's been a while since I posted a fragrance impression. Covid has effectively stopped me from acquiring more samples from stores, as well as wearing perfume on most days. But I finally picked up a sample of Diptyque's Tempo after having to make a trip to the mall to return some online order.
I've been anticipating this fragrance since I acquired Eau Capitale, because someone said Eau Capitale smells like rose notes plus Tempo, and it's not the rose part that I absolutely love. You might have figured by my lengthly introduction that unfortunately Tempo didn't live up to my expectations. Sadly, not at all.
Why is the patchouli not as strong here?? Why??????
The overall performance is lacking too, the scent effectively disappears on me after about 2 hours. It's pleasant while it lasts, it's aromatic and perhaps a touch woody. Just not the patchouli bliss that the dry down of Eau Capitale led me to believe.
:(
This is a short but indeed insightful read on gender. The part that stood out to most to me is the following passage that I've trimmed down:
