Laura

I mean, feel free to unfollow me if I am insufficiently pure for you. Otherwise, unless one lives in a stick lean-to and drinks naught but pure rainwater, all any of us can do is choose what level of hypocrisy we live at and with. I wrote about this, in fact:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...

Penguin random house is being targeted for their stance in favor of DEI. I guess I know which book publisher to support.

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks:

- Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela
- ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota
- Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally
- Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

I sometimes briefly regret forgetting to take a picture because I am busy enjoying the moment.

That waffle was damn tasty though

Looking through a pagoda at a pond with a red shrine on the opposite bank.

Small park discoveries abound. People always say Tokyo is a concrete jungle but these delightful little parks are in so many places just waiting to be discovered.

Reaching out to people on the regular is a habit that takes time to build, but you can start with one person and just ask how they are doing.

If they don't respond, that's fine. You can try again with another person a different day.

If you reached out to someone to say happy new year, why not follow up with how did it go? Or what did you hope the new year brings?

If you've taken the time to reach out in the first place, it's only one more sentence to check in on them.

There is a point of too much pandan extract...

It's probably my favorite series so always love meeting people who also enjoy it!

My tired brain is often barely able to form coherent sentences in Japanese. I wish it was more automatic 😭

It's an amazing series even if it does take over a month to do a re-read 😅

Did you finish the ascendance?

Yes yes yes to ascendance of a bookworm! Although one you start the manga.... Might you also consider the light novels

Have started watching tasokare and am enjoying the premise even though it's supposedly based on a game?

Hugs

Is there anyone else that still loves writing letters. I get joy out of using pretty stationary and writing down my thoughts

I didn't realize some mangas just get left hanging without any updates on what's happened to the author or if it will ever continue

Why is it that when I wake up from a nap... I feel tired

Hanging up wet towels as a substitute for a humidifier....

I feel like I'm wasting time while recovering.

I also just realized that I'm missing a discourse that talks about mitigating the racist, sexist, other societal harms issues which isn't let's burn it all to the ground

I find it useful, just tiring. I also haven't found a community to really discuss and propel my usage forward in a positive way.

I wish gifs were stickers instead

What are you placing your hopes on?

It's also really exhausting to try to keep on top of what's happening.

Wife jokes are super dated

I've mostly made peace with, I work to live and not I live to work. Sometimes though, I do wonder what it would be like to enjoy work

What is it like to enjoy working? I don't think I've ever known

And tired of my body extracting too many calories from the food I give it

But I do think it's possible to become better at making friends through practice.