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个人习惯历史记录
打扫卫生和整理事项（写to-do list、keep track of everything等）的习惯是从大学时养成的，持续到现在。
做饭和记账的习惯是从硕士时养成的。做饭持续到2020年年中，然后就基本都是男人做了。记账则一直记到现在。
被评价成“你是我见过最organized的人”是phd时听到的。果然也是经历了很多年的organize才得到了这样的评价……
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可是我并不想养鳄鱼
不记得在哪里听到这个故事的了，也不知道这个故事是真是假。说蔡康永有一次上节目，节目上的人讨论到现在年轻人很多都有“希望自己从来没有出现在这个世界上，从来没有出生过”的想法，也有不少人直接想轻生的，觉得自己的生活没意思、世界也没意思。蔡康永对这些年轻人的回应是：“请问你在自己家里养过鳄鱼吗？” 问这个问题，是因为蔡以前看到过某个地方有人在自己家里养鳄鱼，一方面大受震撼（“竟然还可以这样！”），另一方面又感叹，生活的确是有诸多可能，虽然自己从未想过养鳄鱼，但这个世界上却有另外的人在真真实实地做这件事，真是奇妙。他解释道，问这个问题，实际上想说的是如果一个人还没有自己养过鳄鱼，那他凭什么觉得自己的生活没有意思，这个世界也没有意思呢？明明还有亲自去养鳄鱼这么有意思的事情可以做啊。
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Chatting and Friends
For most of the time I’m fine with chatting. Chatting face-to-face with others, or throwing text messages at each other. Most of the time I have no problem chatting while also doing something else, working, reading, or playing games. But at times, yeah, it could be annoying. There are times that I just want to be left alone, or left focused, having no interest in “multi-tasking.” By the way, I do know multi-tasking does not exist. Cognitive scientists say “multi-tasking” is just attention jumping around on different things quickly. They also say this kind of hopping around messes up with one’s cognitive capability and is quite damaging to the brain. I’m not curious of messing with my brain cells. They have the ultimate significance — got it, not going to challenge that.
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Keyboards
Talking about spending less money on things that are not necessities, I really do have too many keyboards. Most of these keyboards were bought during the height of the pandemic, since I was pretty much locked inside and could not go anywhere. I wanted to find something fun, something new, something that could provide me a subtle difference in my day-to-day work or life as I was confined in a 800 square foot space with two other mammals. Something that a little bit goes a long way. Keyboard was a perfect object that fulfills these goals.
So I pull out all my photos taken for keyboards. There are tons of them. The followings are only a selected few. I hope you enjoy my keyboard collection, and I hope you can also find you own sweet little something that goes a long way for you in this crazy world. Of course, it does not have to be a physical, tangible object. 🙂
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经济波动
最近这一两个月以来的物价涨幅真的太剧烈了，具体体现在菜价和油价。这个月初在加州看到的油价最普通的一档也要6.4刀一加仑。华盛顿州虽然暂时没有这么夸张，但是也要5刀多了。想起2020年疫情最重的时候曾经有过的两三刀的油价就觉得时光真的一去不复返——当然，我并不希望因为疫情而油价低。疫情还是从一开始就不要有比较好。现在再想起2019年感觉真的像一百年前一样，如此遥远。
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翘班吹玻璃
今天下午一点钟就没上班了。唯一一个重要的会开着开着就发现还是无法有任何进展。这就是我司，我想干活都推不动，只能不干了。然后开车带着男人去了城里。他和他的同事有个活动，在城里一个glass blowing studio吹玻璃玩。我带了电子书阅读器，到附近买好了咖啡之后一边围观他们学吹玻璃，一边看Ali Smith。Studio整得像迪厅一样，音乐声也有点大，导致我读书速度很慢。读书还是需要一个安静的环境才比较好集中注意力。But I enjoyed not damaging my brain by spending time on futile meetings or work that has no progress.
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Happy Lemon
I went to Costco today and after that I went to a Happy Lemon nearby. I didn’t get a chance to buy my weekend regular milk tea yesterday so I wanted to get one today while it was still a weekend. With a Happy Lemon so close by the Costco, I couldn’t possibly miss the chance.
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悬念的尾巴
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写作和工作
看到别的人写很多文章还是有点羡慕的。倒不是说羡慕他们写出来的东西，毕竟也都是很私人的所思所想，而是羡慕他们还有写东西的动力。我很久没有这个动力了，没有持续性的动力。很久很久以前有过。上中学的时候、上大学的时候。写完作业每天都坐下来写写日记的那个时候。那时当然也对训练自己的心性很看重，对自己成长的道路和经历也格外有意观察和维护，所以自然用写日记作为自观自省的方式。那时也是真的喜欢文字。内心对文字无甚畏惧，实践起来毫无犹疑。现在则大不相同了。
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长周末
从某种程度上来说，有阳光的天气有有阳光的好处，但是没有阳光的天气也有没有阳光的好处。比如如下：
- 阴天的时候不用担心紫外线强，也就不用擦防晒霜。（所以一直到现在都还没有买防晒霜。）
- 下雨的时候空气极度清新。因为不是热带，所以并没有“湿乎乎而黏稠”的质感。就是一种单纯的，被雨水一直冲刷的清新。
- 雨天的另外一个好处就是所有的植物颜色都格外青翠。特别绿。不同层次的特别绿。眼睛看着非常舒服。
- 灰尘也被雨水冲刷走了，所以自然也不会有“灰扑扑”的感觉。
Borderline Journey
世界边上的广阔风景
Borderline Journey 