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It feels like I need to buffer therapy with like 2 hours before and after. Before to notice anxiety rising, find a corner to curl up in, play calming music and take deep breathes. After to just lie down and stare aimlessly. Then I feel kinda better. Then it's a slow digestion over the next 2 or 3 days and feel more better. 

frills

And the other thing is fashion videos! Happy to have found another content creator that I love, putting Mina Le up in my pantheon with Bliss Foster and AhaLolo. The common thread is the context they provide to fashion.

but if you take a look at me that really isn't what you see

Listening to music is one of two things that I have been able to summon the will to do.

lion

 Oh look more photos, of autumn foliage slightly up North rather than still summer-like Cali. 

and in the times that I wish I was younger with hunger to be somebody

Imma just interpret this song as being about burnout:

surfliner

I had really high expectations of the train ride between LA and SD due to my PM saying how there were snacks AND wifi was great. There were indeed snacks but they were meh, and wifi was barely usable. But it was still a great train ride because the station was beautiful and the scenery along the way even more so! I can see why so many artists are inspired by the Californian landscape.

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And one more flying back from Philly that I forgot to post:

Q

Been a very long time since I had omakase and Q certainly lived up to expectations! Even better that I wasn't stuffed after the full course, although the other dining parties did order extra. 

Food consisted of:

• Oyster (from BC) with dashi vinegar, soooo good with the dashi vinegar
• Giant octopus with vinegar
• Hirame (fluke) with soy(?) sauce, bonito and green onion
• Akami with yuzu miso sauce
• Kai (red snapper) with wasabi and sesame sauce
• Hokkaido hairy crab, served plain and I can attest to how good the crab itself is
• Chutoro, steamed abalone, scallop sashimi
• Hokkaido uni

Then the following nigiri:

• Shima-aje (stripe jack)
• Kue (longtooth grouper)
• Premium snapper (??)
• Akamutsu (black throat sea perch), still my favourite fish for sushi
• ??? didn't hear the same of this well but its texturally like between a firm white fish and squid or octopus
• Otoro
• Tiger prawn
• Anago
• Ikura
• Tomago

This confirmed that I still have no interest in abalone or uni hahaha. Photo taking was challenging with the spotlight type of lighting. But overall an enjoyable dining experience (while taking notes XD ) that would've been much more amazing if I didn't eat too much during the day and didn't have a raging headache ;o;

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related is some mochi from a shop that's been operating for 130 years?? They were tasty even having them as breakfast after being in the fridge.