Life Area
The small, immediate moments — routines, observations, moods, and the way life actually feels as it's happening. This is where I write about ordinary days, fleeting thoughts, and the parts of life that don't fit into a bigger narrative but still matter. This is where life is lived, not analyzed.
So far today has been semi-productive. We went to the farmer's market this morning and then Costco, I did a work session…
Mostly watched Pluribus and Titanic on my flight back from Taiwan to the Bay Area. What follows is basically my Titanic …
May 29–30, 2026 — written from a café under Taipei 101, finished somewhere over the Pacific Two days, mostly spent in a…
Tried something different today. Instead of using Focusmate — my subscription's long over anyway — I decided to make my …
My brother and I went to the investigation center today, because there's something that went wrong and we needed to talk…
Went to the dentist today to get my teeth checked and cleaned. My dentist — who's a friend of my dad's — didn't charge m…
End of a long hot day in Taiwan. Right now I'm just super tired — could honestly go to sleep right this second. I didn't…
So today is actually my 10,000th day. And how fitting that it starts in the Bay Area and ends with me landing in Taiwan …
Journaling on the plane right now. Just took a nap. Before that I was talking to the person sitting next to me — an aunt…
At the Campbell library today. It just opened and there are already a lot of people here. It's a nice library overall, t…
Just watched "Swapped" on Netflix with Jordan, and damn — that movie just feels so wholesome and real and good all the w…
Jordan and I went to San Francisco today. Along the way there was so much traffic it took us about 1.5 hours to get ther…
Yesterday ended with a lot of emotional dysregulation and a lack of coregulation, going back to a pattern in my family t…
I'm at the MET's European wing café right now, doing work on my laptop, and I must say — this feels wonderful. Got the …
This morning had a few moments where it was hard to emotionally regulate. The first one was in the elevator. We'd lost …
It's so hard to feel good about a project I can't yet see the end of, and when there are so many voices around me asking…
Claude reset my weekly limits today, so now I'm back at 0% used on the Max plan — which resets again on Monday. Which me…
Sitting by the lake next to Castle Rock in Central Park right now, doing work. And it actually feels good. The lake is …
Writing this from the New York Public Library — the Rose Main Reading Room — at 3:32 in the afternoon. And between the s…
It's midnight. I have so many entries left untouched, and at some point I'll have to go back and fill them in. But a par…
Today was my first plane travel day with Jordan ever! ✈️ We didn't sleep at all and just went straight to the airport e…
Rough day, in the end. Mom met Jordan today, which was actually great. She kept telling me how happy she is that I have…
My mom finally arrived today. (Yesterday I drove all the way to the airport to pick her up, only to realize she'd actual…
Jordan came back today and we went to the pool and spa together. The spa actually got fixed — for the first time in such…
Worked at Jordan's place today and went to the gym — Jordan's still in the city. Pretty solid solo day. --- I have a s…
Jordan went to the city for work today, staying there overnight. So I spent the day alone, working on stuff as usual. -…
Went with Jordan today to FedEx so he could get his Clear+ registered. The process takes a while, and we actually showed…
Walked Bear in the morning, then went to the Saratoga library again to get some work done. I was actually productive — s…
Today we went to a new farmer's market — the one at Los Gatos — and it's actually pretty nice overall. Smaller than the …
Went to San Francisco today for Cody's birthday party. 🎂 It was fun — good food, good vibes. Though the people there de…
Was watching Young Sheldon and got stuck on this thought: if someone like Sheldon can exist — someone obviously, convent…
Got triggered again today. Not dramatically — just one image, one old thread, one reminder of a past arena, and suddenly…
Sometimes a person does not realize how much an old story still lives in the body until some small artifact brings it ba…
I reread my review of Past Lives today and… yeah. I was definitely still a little triggered. There's still some emotiona…
I watched Past Lives tonight. Alone. Well — not entirely alone. Bear was there, curled up like a quiet witness, and I wa…
There's a certain kind of afternoon quiet I've started to recognize — the hours right before Jordan gets home, when my b…
Jordan and I started watching Young Sheldon tonight, and I couldn't stop smiling at how many little overlaps there were …
Spent most of today at my place, trying to clean up and take pictures so my brother can rent out the main bedroom. Had t…
Went back to my brother's place today to clear up more things and help sell a few items, including the cat self-cleaning…
Went to the Saratoga library today to get some work done. It's a nice spot. And I ended up catching up with someone thro…
Went to the hospital today to get my TwinRix vaccine. Sitting in that waiting room, I figured today's as good as any to …
Went to the park in Saratoga today to give Bear a walk, then grabbed pizza at Pizza My Heart after. 🍕 Which is honestly…
Built a park in the Minecraft world today — the server I started playing on Friday. It actually came out reminiscent of …
Drove back from the lake house to Reno today and went to Jordan's sister Katie's birthday party. 🎂 It was fun — lots of…
Started on a Minecraft server again and played all day. It was fun — but at the same time, I definitely didn't feel like…
Good day by the lake house. The lake was really beautiful. I was productive pretty much all day, which felt great — and …
Drove to the lake house today. Beautiful, honestly. And I still felt that itch to keep working — like I hadn't done enou…
Great work day. 💪 I put money into my Roth IRA before the deadline, redid my resume, elevated my LinkedIn (added a Sun…
Quiet day. Not exciting, but good — the kind of good that's easy to overlook if you're not paying attention. I woke up …
Today feels... okay. 🙂 The server I've been on shut down today — last day before the reset — and I left a message for …
It's late now, and I'm tired. 😮💨 The kind of tired that comes after actually working hard all day but still feeling a…
Very late at night. In between trying to Claude-max and use up all my available tokens this week — which doesn't seem to…
I was able to sleep earlier last night! 11 pm!! And woke up at around 8:30 am 🌙. I noticed myself rolling around on the…
So, I wasn't able to sleep early last night after all. My mind kept drifting — wanting to do more things, wanting to fee…
Finally caught up with my journal entries hehe 📝. But yeah, today I plan on sleeping early. Though I think I'm already …
Made good progress on the app today and finally started using Notion again to keep track of stuff, which helps me clear …
Easter Sunday. We went to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park with Stela and her boyfriend Jerry. But first — brunch at thi…
We went to Saratoga farmer's market this morning, which was nice 🌿. Jordan got us dumplings from Dumpling King — usuall…
Bay Area day. Did some work in the morning and mid-afternoon, then Jordan wanted to go visit a Micro Center — he only re…
Jordan found my first white hair today. 😭 All the stress and the lower immune system from this past year catching up to…
Passover today, and I got to spend it with Jordan's family. Like all the other holidays I've spent with them, this one w…
Jordan's mom took me to watch Hoppers today at a nearby theater. It was kinda Jordan's idea — I'd been nagging him to wa…
Productive Monday at the comics and coffee cafe near Jordan's parents' house. I love this place. ☕ Got myself a bagel 🥯…
Crystal festival at the Reno convention center today. I was not prepared for how much I'd like it. Table after table of …
Jordan and I drove out to Virginia City today. My first impression was what you'd expect — the wooden storefronts, the s…
Jordan decided this morning that we were leaving for Reno today. Spontaneous, but the reasoning made sense — his dental …
Only 4.5 hours of sleep. I could feel it from the moment I woke up — that low-grade tiredness that doesn't go away just …
Can't sleep. I should have just stayed still when I was already drifting — the moment was there and I got up instead, an…
Better day than yesterday. Went back to the house and actually got a solid chunk of items listed on Marketplace this tim…
Two nights of productive, work-adjacent dreams, apparently. The night before last: I was a college student again. Big s…
Went to the house today to list more stuff on Facebook Marketplace. Got three things up, which is — not a lot lol. The g…
Put on my new contacts this morning and genuinely felt like I'd been upgraded. Everything just… clear. Crisp. The whole …
Today had a particular kind of tiredness to it — not just physical, though that was part of it. I'd only gotten a few ho…
Overall, it was a good day. 🌤️ I spent a lot of time working on my new website — this website — and trying to use up t…
Today felt like a quiet turning point. I decided I'm going to build a personal website 🏠 — not as a resume, not as som…
Today felt oddly full — one of those days where a few small, unrelated things end up stitching themselves into something…