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A new feature as I’m starting to get more into movies. Here’s everything I watched, and where. Asterisk means it’s a movie I’ve watched before this year. Links are to the Letterboxd page. (Speaking of Letterboxd, follow me over there!) total: 32 unique films watched at home: 12 watched in a theater: 19 rewatches: 5… Continue reading

Here’s everything I read this year, plus statistics. Links are to Bookshop (but as always, do what’s best for your conscience and financial situation). An asterisk means it’s a re-read. total: 40 fiction: 9 nonfiction: 28 graphic novels/memoirs/comics: 1 poetry: 2 e-books: 18 library books: 22 re-reads: 3 books read for class: 5 books written by… Continue reading

Making: Lists of stuff to do and buy and watch and listen to before the end of the year! Cooking: A lot of soup–Roberto and this chicken-lentil situation from BA and the ground beef-mixed veggie-tomato situation my family always makes the first day it’s kind of cool outside. Also made these cookies the other day… Continue reading

my mom was–was, the weight that word contains now– my mom was so southern baptist she married a boy from youth group, a boy that’s now alone with their dog in the house they built, so she’d probably hate that i observe this day, hate that i’m thinking about going to a church that’s not… Continue reading

If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another… 1 John 1:7 This is a really long post, but this is me trying to walk in the light… So I have known for a while (like 7-8 years) that I am attracted to both men and… Continue reading

Making: plans to start blogging more, because I have found that social media, or at least the product formerly known as Twitter and all its clones, has shaped me in ways that i don’t enjoy Cooking: pork shoulder in the Instant Pot, chicken thighs and veggies–making some plans to make japchae for Chuseok next weekend… Continue reading

he’s outside with his brothers around the fire,deep in some conversation.their laughter booms at some indecipherable joke onlysiblings can share. “i still don’t understand why you’re leaving,”sighs one, breaking the mood, and i agree with him.i mean, i know. i’ve always known.angels showed up singing when he was born.hard to ignore or forget. but it’s… Continue reading

Here’s everything I read this year, plus statistics. Links are to Bookshop (but if you wanna buy it on Amazon or support a local shop or check it out from the library, as always, do what’s best for your conscience and financial situation). (Previous lists: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007) total: 37 fiction: 19 nonfiction: 15 graphic novels/memoirs/comics: 3… Continue reading

Making: plans for the rest of the year (professionally, academically, and personally); a blanket so I can get some yarn out of the house Cooking: lots of soup because it is, in fact, soup season Drinking: Sprite Zero Sugar (I have a cold and Sprite just hits the spot)–will be downing a whole bunch of… Continue reading