For a long time, my relationship with notebooks wasn't that smooth. It's not that I ever disliked them. On the contrary, I've always been irresistibly drawn to them. There must be kryptonite hidden inside clean, blank pages. An empty notebook just conjures up pure possibility. It could hold the first draft of a story, or… Continue reading My commonplace notebook (aka my idea/self-analyzing tool)
There's 17 movies on this list, which might seem like a random number, but it's what I've been doing for the past few years. I watch one movie every month and then an extra one in June, July, August, November, and December -- aka summer and the two months with holiday breaks. 2021's list is… Continue reading Backlist movies I want to watch in 2021
This is the first year I can remember where Halloween fell on the weekend --- and it's also the one year I can remember where it wasn't just religious people who think the holiday is demonic that decided to skip celebrating it. Speaking of dark magic, we did a spooky lab in biology a few… Continue reading Tales of senior year: volume II // a weird bio lab
The Wikipedia Game Description: It's like Candyland, but instead of drawing cards, you get to the end by clicking hyperlinks. I first learned about this game freshman year in geometry class. My teacher that year shared her room with another teacher, and they were super good friends. So one day we walked into class and… Continue reading More virtual games to play with your friends
At the beginning of freshman year, it took me so long to get used to the fact that I was a high schooler, so I expected it would take a similar amount of time for me to get used to being a senior. But surprisingly, I feel like I'm almost done processing. Except that now… Continue reading Tales of senior year: volume I
1. Vox videos I'm not a regular reader of Vox's website, but I subscribed two weeks ago to its Youtube channel. They publish around three videos each week and cover a wide variety of topics. I love their videos: the editing, the scoring, the colors. 2. Rom-coms It didn't hit me that I liked rom-coms… Continue reading 10 things I’ve been interested in recently
An explanation of this post's title: I know all the movies on this list are famous, but I feel like they're famous in different worlds: the documentary world, the Bollywood world, the classic high-school world, the general young public world, and the general older public world. There's only one movie on here you're probably guaranteed… Continue reading Five very different & very famous movies that I love
