walking to church in the early morning, the fresh layer of snow melts into the candy colored dawn. looking at the astronomy internships i picked out months ago and thinking about how all i want to do is garden and wash dishes and read books.
new page, featuring my neighbor's backyard. maybe i'll get bored of it by summer and switch it out for a new photo, but we'll see. there are some other boxes that will appear once i have stuff to put in them, but i've hidden them for now since they'll look weird empty.
idli and uttapam are the ideal winter breakfast. the batter almost looks like snow, but it warms you up and keeps you full till lunch. i need to learn to cook more indian food from my mother before i move out...
these days are spent trying to 100% the mad max video game, trying to read the original chinese version of kevin chen's ghost town, and trying to completely clear the driveway of snow. lots of trying.
"the morning sky there was brilliant with a pure light that washed everything clean, from the weariest faces to the very mud in the ruts" - the heirs of the kingdom, pg 325
book i found in a small second hand book store in new mexico two years ago during a road trip. the way oldenbourg writes about the poor weavers of arras draws you in and dashes all your hopes and dreams on the rock wall of jerusalem. i'll miss you saint-john. only thing i can nitpick is the very last part with marie, which felt rather useless and gratuitous.
this was a surprisingly beautiful movie, definitely going in (the latter half of) my top 10. the title sums up the film pretty well: what if you could be john malkovich? i looove lotte.
sci-fi yuri manga about catching fish. heavier on the fishing and society they lived in than the yuri but i liked it a lot. was looking forward to the explanation for why they always dressed up but did not get one.