Year: 2012

Three-year balletversary. Still feel like a fraud. Otherwise, the weekend was spectacularly blue and wonderful. Except:

• Burned my tongue eating potstickers at San Tung. Then burned my mouth eating the chicken wings. So worth it, although my tongue still kind of tingles.
• Stomach has been in knots all weekend. Not sure if it’s the sporadic repasts (didn’t eat between Fri 7pm and Sat lunch 1pm; nb1: dancing while hungry kind of sucks), consumption of alcohol (nb2: don’t order long islands if you want to sober up quickly to drive home), or just my nerves (nb3: life is complicated, but you’re probably overthinking it).
• Started experiencing neck and shoulder pains this afternoon. I’m becoming convinced that my bed and pillow combination is way too soft for me. I hope I can move my neck after the dental appointment I have tomorrow morning.

• Finally finished reading Updike’s Rabbit, Run. It only took me one and a half years. Probably the third longest time to completion for a novel that I’ve read. For a book that doesn’t have V2 rockets, wasn’t set in Dublin, and doesn’t have wheelchair assassins, it was quite heady at times. The language and structure is quite rich, but I think the main source of slowness was that I couldn’t empathize at all with the protagonist. Dude’s kind of a jerk. One down, three more in the tetralogy to go.
• http://howswaldo.com/ Best thing since Garfield Minus Garfield.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYg
• Trying to summon up enough resolve to do this, but I feel like I keep faltering.
• Also, what’s up with endoskeletons? How do they work?

• The new dehumidifier arrived today, and as I suspected, the power brick on the old one was broken but the old unit itself was fine. So now I have an extra dehumidifier unit lying around. Hoping to get a replacement power brick, but even then I might be too lazy to return the new dehumidifier back to amazon. On the plus side, I might not suffocate on our apartment air during these intermittently rainy days.
• If I’m single next valentine’s day, I might make it a tradition to just do taxes on v-day night. I was pretty close to finishing up in under an hour, but I’ve hit a few snags with tdameritrade. Oh well, I was about to watch A Very Long Engagement or Serendipity or something last night, which might not have been a good idea.
• During taxes, I realized I’m a little behind in my charity giving for last year. So far, it’s been EFF, Stanford, and the studio I go to. I’ve been thinking about Doctors without Borders and/or Wikipedia. Other suggestions?