You’re not interesting.

Somewhere else.

You're my favorite new verb.

Already forgotten,
to forever stay rotten.

One-syllable life,
I need my pulse hyped.

Decision to incision,
no sneezing on that vision.

No more crumbs in bed,
dump that thing instead.

Private. Dining. Room.

Unclench, and feel that drench.

Color outside the line,
snap outside the frame.
Stir until it splashes,
rock a clean fade.

Beard.
Weird.
Feared.
Bleared.

Coughing into the pillow,
now everybody say wayo.

I am always watching the same movies on repeat.

...is that because things in my life feel like they’re on repeat too?

I felt a little bit of that.

"If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us. Did these people think, 'Let's all spend the night in a gym?' But look now. Everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong."

Said by the character Park Dong-Ik in the movie Parasite.

"Shin never became a novelist, but he named his first successful business, a company that marketed chewing gum, Lotte after Charlotte, the female character in Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther.' Mr. Shin was especially proud of the name Lotte, calling it 'the best choice in my life.'"

From the January 19, 2020 NYT Article: ‘Chewing Gum Tycoon’ of Lotte Group, Shin Kyuk-ho, Dies at 98. By Choe Sang-Hun.

People know.
People, no!

You know that scene in Beaches when CC Bloom bangs on her radiators with a frying pan so her super turns up the heat?

I think I've thought about her doing that literally every time I lay eyes on a radiator here in NYC. And this has been since I first watched it as a kid.

"Dear CC, we're spending summer at our beach house. It's very peaceful here. I get to ride horses and think a lot."

Said by Hillary in the movie Beaches.

Wash your hands x 100.

Other fish to fry,
other beans to boil.
Other cabbage to cook,
another thought to toil.

The past few weeks or so.

Descend.
Defend.
Demand.
Dreamland.

"I'm making spaghetti. You'd better come home soon."

Said by the character Eun Ho on the Netflix Korean drama: Romance Is a Book. Season 1, Episode 11.

The current soundtrack of living in NYC includes a lot of coughing and sneezing.

Invisible. An afterthought.

What even am I?

I had a perfect train day today. Well, at least half of one on my commute home that is.

I can't even remember when I started calling it this, but I gave the label perfect train day to those odd days when every subway I'd have to take would somehow magically show up the moment I got to the platform. This used to mean it would happen both in the morning and evening in simpler times when I didn't live in my current place and getting to wherever I worked only required taking a single subway line. But since I have to take 3 subway lines to get to my office now, perfect train days seem pretty much impossible. There's no way this could happen to six different trains in a single day of commuting. However, it did happen on my way home. The G, 7 train and D train all pulled into each station the moment I got there and I even managed to snag a seat every time. Sure, I worked a little late today and left my office at 8pm so that was probably why I got seats, but the timing still all matched up! It's been a while since I've had a perfect train day in any shape or form, so it made me pretty happy and was the highlight of my evening. It was a nice little reminder that it does still exist! Yes, exciting stuff going on here, folks.