(As of March + April 2025)
Ongoing: Teaching AP English, studying architecture, doing Wing Chun, cleaning houses, writing Percolations
Community-ing
- Being part of an after-school program for highschool students from China
- Putting together a provincial homeschool convention happening May 2025
- Playing music at various nursing homes
Learning
- Pan flute, bamboo flutes
- Korean
- Written Chinese
- Interior design basics
Creating
- A novel
- An instrumental track with my “niche instruments” (as requested by a friend 🙂 )
- An AP Language and Composition course
- Sketches of buildings
- Memories 😉
Reading
- Lawrence in Arabia
- Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji
- The World Beyond Your Head
Studying
- Natural eyesight healing + maintenance
- Fractal + chaos theories
- The science behind night-time dreaming, particularly in genres, “film styles,” and connections to the dreamer’s real world
Watching
- The White Olive Tree (2025)
- Squid Game 2 (2024)
- Lectures on music and philosophy
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
- Collateral (2004)
- The Brutalist (2024)
- The Goldfinger (2024)
- A Few Good Men (1992)
- Perfect Days (2023)
- Papa/爸爸 (2024)
Pondering
- Ties between responsibility, intelligence, and ability
- Girardian thoughts on mimesis, pride, and genius
- Connections between society and the individual, and how each affects the other’
Thanksgiving
- Leather goods – particularly my jacket, a notecard sleeve I use daily, and the leather seats in Icarus
- Eggs
- Long discussions with random people on random things
Past Pages
(Inspired by Derek Sivers and other such pages)
It’s weird how these things cost money, time, or attention. Or all three. 😉 If you’d like to contribute, I’d appreciate it.
