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A sense of place:

In other news, booked my tickets to the annual reading week trip to New York. Much excite, currently feeling an intense need to get away.

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Kicking off the autumn / winter season with some hotpot in the dutch oven :D

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Stress eating, or rather stress craving for bbq, is so real.

At Memphis BBQ, which made me super nostalgic about Fat Matt's since the atmosphere was so similar (minus the live music at night...and Atlanta's almost perpetual patio weather). Awesome pulled pork and fries.

At Cherry St BBQ, which I was hyping up for myself since...I was in China? It was good, but definitely prefer the sides to the meat, though that's not saying that I didn't devour the meat regardless :)


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In other news, Rui and I have good food :)
High school us would definitely be proud of us now.

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In case anyone is wondering why it's been so silent, this is the reason:

of December. So I'll be devoting my life (well, sparing some time for a certain boy too) to them until then. The silver lining to filling out graduate school applications is that it does force a critical look at what exactly my career aspirations are. Thesis is also the best teacher of time and project management. Bonus point for learning how to use this awesome citation manager.

Example: was staying at the lab working on both of the above items till about midnight yesterday. But then went to the late night location of Burger Priest for something to contain my sanity.

Yep, still the best burger ever, even if the bun isn't grilled with butter anymore.

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Rui and I have at the very least fulfilled most of our highschool dreams. Aka having some nice cheese board just because, in a cozy apartment of our own.

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It's like I've just realized that the air around me has been water the whole time.

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Slow mornings are for crafting emotions into cryptic words and making a graphic to match. The inspiration is a different song, but I'm suddenly reminded of "Life is like a boat", it's been many years since I've listened to it. Kinda surprised that I didn't make the connection to it from that Murakami quotation.

Once I have a permanent home, I'll have two large paintings on a wall, both of the sea, but one with a boat and one with a person floating. There was an artist with fantastic paintings of waves in Krog, I regret not taking a business card.

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Now I don't even realize that I haven't gone on my normal internet rounds for a day, what is life?

But at least I've found another source of chaat so all is well. Bombay Street Food is super delicious.