2 WEEK RECAP

The past 2 weeks have been a lot. For starters, I got married, and it was wonderful!

During this very happy moment, my dog (Katsu) has been having some health issues. He recently had surgery, and he had crazy diarrhea all over the place, and the wound wouldn’t close. Seiji and I spent a night in the emergency pet hospital waiting for them to look at him, which if you’ve never been, emergency pet hospitals are one of the worse places on Earth.

Katsu is healing fine now. He has been pooping normally, and I’ve never felt so relieved watching my dog shit. Pet ownership is strange.

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2 weeks ago I watched Tony, the Anthony Bourdain biopic directed by Matthew Johnson. I think it was GOOD. There was some internet discourse about whether it’s too soon, or whether Bourdain would have loved it or hated it. According to Laurie Woolever, Bourdain’s longtime assistant, he would have hated the discourse, and he’s so real for that. Is anyone else feeling wary from all of the discourse? If you ask me, people should live more and talk less.

Anyway, it was a good coming-of-age film about a shitty guy who becomes a little less shitty by the end, and it’s about the choice to work in kitchens and highs and lows that come with that. It honestly could be about anyone who works in a kitchen, it doesn’t matter so much that it’s about Bourdain.

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There is a cotton candy machine at H-Mart, and it is consistently broken. About 6 months ago, I remember seeing the cotton candy machine working, but I decided to wait before trying it out. Big mistake, it was broken for another 6 months. Until this week. This past week it was functional for the first time in months, and I seized the opportunity to check it out.

I don’t even care for cotton candy that much, but this machine has been taunting me for over a year at this point.

Anyway, it was pretty great. The machine is nasty on the inside, so I tried not to think about that too much. Who even services a machine like this? That’s probably why when it breaks, it’s broken for two business quarters at minimum.

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Thoughts on social media: I deleted Instagram off of my phone about 2 months ago. I also removed all other social media esque websites – Facebook, Threads, Bluesky. Leading up to the removal of these apps, I had been feeling extra locked into the algorithm. Instagram Reels has really dialed in on what I’m interested in, so I was spending about a couple hours every day (sometimes more) doing nothing but scrolling.

Even though Instagram was serving up a lot of content that I was interested in (DIY tech, crafty projects, recipes, political discourse), I found that I was not acting on any of it. Isn’t that strange? I had about 80 recipes saved, and I had not made any of them.

There has been such a great schism in my life between the act of consuming content about doing things, and actually doing things.

I still use Instagram on my computer, so I’m not totally off the sauce yet. This blog is my way of trying to push back against my own tendency to consume content. Maybe I’ll make a list of the websites I’ve been using that aren’t Instagram for discovering things pertaining to my interests, if people are interested.

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Current listening to: there’s a new single from Hemlocke Springs that i like very much

Currently watching: forgotten island. uy pilipines!!!

Currently reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Currently eating: sopas and beef rendang

Currently doing: got married, now i am budgeting