Time
- Ugh, circadians are all off today, what with daylight savings’ time. Yawn
- Circadian situation perhaps worsened by the weekend’s fun: On Saturday, got together with a 5 other Los Angelean tea-drinkers, and together we held a tasting of 12 different teas, drinking ~50 cups per person. The “theme” of the day was supposedly “light wuyi”, but we sampled a large range, from da hong pao to tgy to puerh to dancong. Will hopefully compile some more sensical tasting notes soon, as it was quite an experience. The thing that struck me most of all was how counter-culture it all felt—how does drinking traditional Chinese teas become a thing like punk rock, in the right cultural context?
- This also marks the second weekend of my decision to take a leave of absence from my studies at USC. I am totally enjoying a life where I can enjoy my weekends without guilt. Between tea on Saturday, doing a disc brake job on my old Civic Sunday, and cooking dinner with Mindy for my folks down in OC Sunday evening, it’s great to be able to enjoy life a bit. Being a grad student offers lots of time freedoms on the day-to-day scale (want to take a random morning off to run errands? want to take a random afternoon off to go to the beach? both not a problem), but it’s pretty draining on the macro level (want to enjoy a full weekend stress-free? good luck, with that impending thesis or conference paper floating over your head!). This new life is a nice change…
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