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november

I'll be here and here for the next couple of days visiting my mom. Not looking forward to the plane flight, but I'm excited to try out my new camera in an area outside of the banality of Orange County. It's kind of an off-season period to be traveling to Huangshan, which means less people but higher chances of weather complications. Hopefully everything turns out okay.

Happy Thanksgiving, and happy quarter-century to me.

discovery

There's nothing quite like the feeling of discovering a new song or piece of music, and slowly coming to the realization that you're in love with it as you're listening to it for the first time, and that you know it's going to be on continuous repeat at home, in your car, and at work for the next couple of days. Love at first sight is debatable, but love at first listen is undisputed fact. Why is just one listening never enough? There must be some kind of complex brain process going on that can explain our thirst for repeat listenings of a particular piece of music, and why we don't feel like we can fully "digest" a song until we've heard it 20, 30, 50 times.

Speaking of which, I really want to read this book:

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

hellgate: london

Maybe I'll reinstall when the game stops sucking donkey balls. But probably not. First impressions mean everything to me these days.

Sigh.

think hard

Don't you hate it when you walk somewhere in your house, and then when you arrive you forget why you wanted to go there in the first place? The irritating thing is that when you forget something that was just at the front of your thought process moments ago, it seems soooo much more important. Then you try digging for it in your mind, and it slips further and further away.

I just walked to the kitchen, but I couldn't remember why. If I wanted food, I'd be eating right now. What else could there possibly be??