To my facebook-based friends and acquaintances, sorry. I prefer the control having my own webpage and blog give me, so I will continute to post here at caveatdumptruck, daily.
I have stopped logging into facebook on a regular basis. Partly, that’s in protest of the fact that they are so aggressively tracking users’ web activities – did you know that if a page has “Like” button, facebook knows you’ve been there even if you don’t click it?
Because of that, among other reasons, I only log into facebook once every couple of days. These blog entries still sometimes cross-post, but I’m not trying extra hard to make sure that always happens.
Those of you who know me well, and read between the lines… probably realize I’ve been kind of down, lately. Above all else, I’m so utterly discouraged about my learn-Korean project that I’ve essentially stopped studying. I don’t know how to regain my motivation.
Meanwhile, I’ve been wasting a lot of time reading bad novels and surfing radical politics websites (e.g. Who Is IOZ, whose recent rant was fabulous – most hilariously: “The supercommittee, a sort of homeopathic version of a legislative body, a thing, reduced to its essence and then placed near a vial of water whose molecules were supposed to realign and magically cure what ails us, or, ahem, whatever, failed.”).
I ate very healthy today: I had rice with gim (seasoned dried seaweed) and kimchi for breakfast, and for an early weekend dinner I had tricolor rotini and penne pasta with a simple vegan homemade sauce of onion, garlic, tomatoes, thyme, oregano, rosemary, bayleaf and pepper, with a half-cup of red table wine to give it some character. It’s not really that attractive, nor even deeply delicious, but it was healthy and satisfying. And I saved the leftovers, hopefully I’ll get better at using leftovers.
What I’m listening to, right now.
Stereo MCs, “Step It Up.”
Catchy tune.
