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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 3: I was really hoping that he will come through

    Anybody who knows me knows how much I love K-pop girl groups. I love awkwardly following K-pop choreography and miming high notes in my shower. I’ve lost hours of my life breaking down LOONA’s music videos frame-by-frame and falling down Twitter conspiracy theory rabbit holes. I literally wrote a 20-page college paper on Produce 101

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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 2: Yin / Yang

    The Chinese characters for yin and yang hold many meanings, but nobody on the Internet can seem to agree about them. According to the dozen or so websites I skimmed in preparation for this theme, they represent moon and sun, dark and light, feminine and masculine, earth and sky. What holds across all of these

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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 1: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink”

    Today was the first day of my new life as a fashionista: at least, that’s what I reminded myself of as I dragged myself to the shower this morning…

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  • February Fashion Challenge: Introduction

    Hi, world! I have a confession: I’m 27, and I still feel like I don’t know how to dress myself. There are a lot of reasons why I ended up this way. First, there’s the experience of growing up in a household where most of my clothes were donated to me by my older cousins.

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  • 2022: a reflection

    2022: a reflection

    On paper, 2022 is not an year where I accomplished very much. I did not study enough Spanish to become fluent. I basically completely gave up on running. I fell two books short of my 15-book goal on Goodreads. I wrote, like, two blog posts and one poem outside of work. And I discovered that

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