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.
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…