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家主が…あやしいことをはじめました。いつも「だんごは丸くあるべき」と言うくせに、へんなかたちです。

Today, my landlady suddenly started something strange... Although she always says "Dango should be round 🍡", these are different...

ごまをすって…

Next she made roasted sesami powder...

きなこも よういしました。どちらも くろみつでねります。

And she prepared kinako, the soy beans powder. Both were mixed with brown sugar syrup.

だんごはしっかりゆでると ういてきます。ちゃんとうくまでまって、そしてしっかりひやすのがだいじと言います。

Dango will float up when they are boiled well. We have to wait this floating and cooling by water, and those are important to make good dango.

かんせい……「オレとちっさいののなかよしだんご」…ま、オレにはだんごのみりょくは まったくわかりませんけどね…

She cooked dango with the image of Little and me... Hmm, of course I can't understand dango's attraction any at all...

He's innocent, your honor!

I rewatched The Grand Budapest Hotel and thought that maybe I could try to recreate this scene with Wei Wuxian so here we are

New watercolours, new sketchbook 

Nighttime ramen

I’ll have prints of this available at ECCC, Booth 1410

go to sleep

When I joined Engineering, for the first time, I found myself to be, academically, just an average person. Below average, in fact. With no other talent, academic prowess was my only source of pride - now even that was gone.

Predictably, when my first semester grades came, I rationalized that since the grades were not outstanding, it did not matter if they were decent or absolutely horrible. I call this an ‘all or nothing’ mindset.

As a result, I stopped caring and my grades kept slipping.

And all my sins are catching up when I'm having to apply for an internship or job interview. I'm having constant anxiety.

This all or nothing mindset is pure evil. This is why, when things are not going well, we totally give up instead of fighting to redeem whatever is possible. It is why we wait for the New Year to make resolutions instead of getting started the next day - ‘After all, since this year is imperfect, why bother at all?’

This is why we give up on our dreams when we suffer a setback. This mindset is just an excuse for procrastination.

Life is not a black and white choice between ‘perfect’ and ‘imperfect’; most of life is grayscale. We don’t have to be perfect - we just have to do the best we can, under the circumstances.

[puts several things in my coat pockets] inventory

wait why'd the music stop