Sakura of DOOM

I've been playing around with my subscriptions and juggling things between what I read on DW and what I read via my RSS reader. It is so sad that I feel like I can't even keep up with less than 100 people, but so it goes. As usual, every day here is de-subscribing/ungranting access amnesty day.

Also, eventually I will start to talk about books again! Possibly when I start reading again, ahahaha. I'm still trying to figure out why my attention span still feels shot for fiction; I haven't been able to hang onto manga or fiction, although apparently Mythbusters and non-fiction about germs and parasites are right up my alley. I wonder if it is because I am socializing more offline and thereby using up more of the part of my brain that keeps track of people there? No clue.

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( Ratling babble! )

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( General cooking and recipe notes )

( Recipes: sweet and sour pork ribs, nappa cabbage and fen si, meat and veggie dumplings )

Haha, hopefully all this typing in Chinese will eventually make me faster than the ten-second hunt-and-peck I do for every word right now.

I was going to try and write up a book post or something with the usual note on how behind I am, so I figured I might as well make that a separate post.

Anyway, as you all know reader-Bob, I am currently in grad school. So if I have not commented, answered email, posted, or otherwise generally fallen off the face of the planet, please assume it is because grad school has eaten my life... YET AGAIN! I really want to keep up with book talk and all the cool things going on in the anti-racism sphere from awesome POC and allies and talk about my current love for the probably-doomed SCC (so much love!) and manga and eventually finish posting my pictures of winter vacation (!!) and maybe even write up some of the thoughts on non-book things that I have (I have them, really), but just keeping up with my reading list is taking up all of my energy. I think my brain is about to explode from having to process too much information, so I may end up having to trim again =(.

So I keep saying I will try to get caught up, but given how busy this semester is, and given what my workload looks like next school year, I ... really doubt it will happen. And of course, every day is defriending amnesty day here, and I will not be offended. I will try to post what I can when I can, because I miss LJ conversations so much, but my time and attention are pretty scarce right now.