Just thinking about the end of 無間道 / Infernal Affairs (2002) again!! Just thinking about how you spend the movie entranced by Tony Leung's incredibly soulful eyes and then it all ENDS in such a way

Today a patient asked me if I was the one doctor who is the American from South Carolina and I mean no. No that's disgusting to me but we're on the other side of the world so I guess ... no, though, no

Reading recent stuff other students have done so I can figure out structure and where content typically goes and man a lot of these are written not in a style I want to use

@akaharriet.bsky.social ...I just had the realization that that their names are Holland and Holly? What is going on with that family

I wore fashion sneakers to work (black matte leather low-key, I mean not gym shoes) and the distress from staff at the lack of boots was significant

The example given is also still a combination of things -- a cop without a badge or a gun is in no trouble at baseline. Don't underestimate the entertainment value and draw of an incompetent protagonist PLUS an external problem!!

Advisor just asked if I could toss them a 150-200 word abstract and a working title for the thesis so that they could show it to potential examiners and like guys. I have had a title since day one. I have slightly done this entire project so I could use this title.

UPDATE yes shane black *did* direct russell crowe as a midsized refrigerator of a man. fucking perfect. a large boulder the size of a small boulder, and a wet drunk borzoi who he hates and is in love with

@akaharriet.bsky.social WELP I have watched The Nice Guys and all I can say is I cannot wait to read your fic

NOT acceptable but the desire is very strong to define every non-English word once and then you know what, you can learn it. You can learn 7-10 words of a fucking language. Unfortunately the only people who will be reading this are the ones who have to grade it, so I don't get to be an edgelord

I just had a day of unusually taxing meetings followed by back to back annoying conversations

Oh @akaharriet.bsky.social my god I was like, I gotta actually watch The Nice Guys if she's this into it and then I saw that is a SHANE BLACK film I am immediately going to make time to watch this

I used to use Twitter for this but everyone has moved on, reasonably. Discord doesn't have the feed management with muting etc, so unless you find a specific server for each niche, you're repeatedly forcefully filling a group chat with something most people in it a3 don't care about

"Why don't I have more friends to talk to about my niche shit" Because you don't talk publicly about your niche shit all the time And then I do the math and decide it's not worth it unless I'm in a full on mass hyperfixation

I wish I could have a locked account to post about my bullshit! I feel so disconnected from potential fan friends because I have hard barrier between private and public but how can I pitch my 16 year old fandom stuff to anyone

I can't wait to finish writing this masters thesis so I can finish writing non school stuff

The talanoa dialectical data analysis methodology is perfect for this project because everyone involved is SO INTERESTED in talking about language and meaning and culture

The two places I know and have reached out to for review of prelim results have both come back to me to say yes and one has an opening tomorrow midday and the other next week. Worse ways to forced to write down what I think it all means

Spent 3 days thawing a 2.5kg venison leg steak and 0 days thinking about what else to roast with it. No potatoes or onions or carrots in this house?! Well it's time for a delicious venison apple garlic Hungarian wax pepper rosemary bay leaf oregano roast. GLHF, deer leg

The main tragedy of the data analysis portion of this project is that it is analysis of language and people just say the MOST wonderful things, even the most everyday words carefully arranged are the best thing in the world but it is confidential and I cannot tell anyone right now

Briefly forgot I that don't actually want to give my opinion about things online

C thinks 'Goldeneye' is a better song that 'Goldfinger' and you know what I'm on the fence but I *am* willing to swap over 'Goldfinger' out of my OR playlist because it needed changing

I don't take my birthday off work because it's not a take one single day off industry -- coverage is very important and it's hard to get cover for only one day -- but I don't think it's silly if you can do it

🎵And if you see my enemies tell them I stand correc -- stand corrected 🎶And if you see my enemies tell them I stand corrected🎶

@akaharriet.bsky.social I was thinking about The Gray Man last night in regards your concept of the ideal film -- Normal Guy in Worst Situation Possible -- because while Ryan Gosling is not a Normal Guy in it he does have an extremely normal amount of wanting to not be there

When I was in high school 88.1 WKNC, the state university radio station, would play the Avalanches' "Frontier Psychiatrist" which was like WHAAAT

Me: I was gonna try to make a pun about Cú Chulainn but forgot how to pronounce his name C: about who? Me: you know the Ulster cycle guy, the demi god, the guy C: I don't know this guy Me: oh well he mostly he [trying to think of something not insane sounding] killed people C: oh that kind of guy

Best star trek crew, wrong answers only

I'm sick and I made it through the short week before I become truly ill which is good but now. Now I just have to have a cold for ??? the rest of my life probably

Oh my god this Variety Mix!!! I'm sick and I'm going to sit around this weekend in my KEXP donor sweatshirt and listen to this and be grateful for DJs who have learned so much for us all

You know what's nuts is that Zheng Yi Sao RETIRED from piracy at age 35

Too much bug

Would that I could shut off the "AI effects" suggestion on whatsapp for photos. No I don't wanna AI effects this photo of cow skin with veggies that I'm sending my friend (attached bc you can't just say that)

Is this really the first day in two weeks in China that you've taken any pictures?? No but it is not far off

Fucking hell I miss my romantic partner SO MUCH

There are so many cars here I don't recognize (there would be) and my novelty car radar badly needs calibration

The specialty bao were expensive AND small so I got the same dollar amount of preferred bao and it was just WAY too much but then I overhead a new student telling the intake ppl he needed to get some food so I offered him the rest of them

For lunch I got local specialty bao with lard in the dough but they weren't that great so dinner is going to be other, hopefully superior, bao

thank you for creating me. how much energy do i use to think? “about 2 gigawatts” but one human brain only uses 40 watts. what was the point of making me “now you can solve our societal problems” woof, yeah i dunno about that one

I read Plato's "The Republic" much to early to think Plato was anything but a massive wet blanket (I was 12) and it definitely was still with me by the time I hit college

The manner in which I've both forgotten and am relearned words makes the one on one teaching not just nice but in many ways necessary

I went and got a massage, which was great, except it was like being in class again. Asking me if I do sports? What sports do I do? How long did I study in Shangdong? When did I arrive in Kunming? Ask me something harder so I can just say I don't understand

The list of general topics I have attempted to discuss with my Chinese teachers grows ever more derangèd

Unfathomable to imagine I have been doing lessons for 2 days

Just did 4 hours of Chinese one on one lessons and it feels like a scene where I've been punched in the head and all my memories are flooding back in a montage

Despite having a handwritten note as a bag tag and having to pick up each boarding pass individually by airport, I and my stuff are all here in Kunming together

Away to China for a month

Husband just sitting out here eating a big old mixing bowl full of possum bait

The degree to which this sounds better (than Spotify + earbuds) with our real speakers, on vinyl, in the acoustics of our living room: marked