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starting to question if I know what a regression is

whatever works

oh we’re cooked

Anything that might help me survive the term

will reading my prof’s book get me a distinction? 🤔

I bought this book from an old man named Clive under Waterloo Bridge

I have about 30 min on the bus every day to read so we’re making slow but steady progress

still crying on the plane??

why am I crying on the plane

friends — after a long 6 months, I finally reached the top of the library hold list for demon copperhead! only to discover upon picking it up that I had accidentally requested the spanish translation. despite my 1200 day duolingo streak, I am very much not proficient in spanish. this has been a devastating day. I don’t think I can wait another half a year — does anyone have a copy I can borrow? 🥺

lol my workplace mentioned

Tou Saiko Lee mentioned!!!!

Been awhile since I’ve picked this up since I’ve been low on brain energy 😪 wish I had read this chapter earlier so I knew where the Plain of Jars was for last Thursday’s NYT crossword

Why hasn't anyone pointed out all the references Maggie Rogers makes to this collection in the lyrics of Little Joys?? I mean the song starts with "Bonfire of awe and a thirst was burning"

Chinese people were the first undocumented immigrants and TIL that they crossed the southern border from Mexico, using crossings like Eagle Pass. The border patrol, and use of deterrence tactics, raids, surveillance, and mass deportations all started in response to Asian immigration. How did I not know this??

super interesting to read about the attitudes towards Chinese immigrants in Hawai’i — since they came to the islands to work on the sugar cane plantations, they were seen by native Hawaiians as extensions of the colonizing force that was dispossessing them of the land and sovereignty.

did not learn about coolies in the Caribbean/Latin America in APWH, but the dots are connecting now. So the reason why Peruvian-Chinese cuisine — chifa — exists is not because of “immigration” as Wikipedia suggests, but a system of indentured servitude. And it’s pretty much entirely a fusion from Cantonese food bc that’s where the workers came from :O

you shall not passssss!!

st. olaf mentioned

halfway through and i’ve finally figured out the key to reading this book is to stop fighting and accept that nothing will make sense and just go along with the ride

the musical terms he’s invented (pigmented triads, crushed cadence, struck motif) are so believeable they made me think I missed something in music theory. well played, ishiguro

having a thoroughly unpleasant time. i’m trapped in someone else’s nightmare. everyone has so many needs. why don’t i know anything. send help.

this is wild

I know a manic pixie (cut) dream girl when I see one