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Runs, extensions, questions – 37/52 :)

September 12, 2016

I’m back to full school mode, and I think you’re going to be able to start seeing it in my Happy Lists. Outings and adventures will probably be less frequent… I’m still trying to find my rhythm and figure out how to balance school, blogging, socialising, and taking care of myself physically and emotionally. The previous Labor Day weekend was definitely needed, and I got some blog stuff done, but not as much CS stuff as I would have liked. This past weekend was filled with hosting a cappella auditions (as was last weekend), and next weekend I’ll be away for HACKMIT. Ahhh! So. much. to. do.

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The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

September 7, 2016

– I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review. –

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 06 Sept 2016
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Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood.

Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

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Labor Day sale haul

September 6, 2016

This is not the kind of blog post I usually write, but I’m just putting it here to shame myself for spending money. I have this thing where I need to explain to people what I buy so that I can validate my choices. Usually I’m not a shopper, online or offline, but once I buy one thing, the momentum just keeps building. I might write another post like this for all the new furniture I bought for my new apartment hmm…

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Cake, coffee, cheese – 36/52 :)

September 5, 2016

It’s been an exhausting week of shopping five extra classes and an exhausting weekend of a cappella. It’s only been a week of school, but I am so thankful to have Labor Day off! I am writing this on Monday morning while eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes and wearing yesterday’s clothes (but they were clothes I changed into after my morning run and a shower, after which I didn’t leave the house, so they’re clean!!).

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Old City Coffee

August 31, 2016

Reading Terminal Market is a huge indoor farmer’s market in Philly, and it has not one but two Old City Coffee vendors. Why? I have no idea. They’re conveniently located though; Reading Terminal Market is right above the SEPTA station. But today we didn’t check out either of them. Instead, we wandered down cobbled roads and found the actual Old City Coffee shop, where we planned to spend a productive day. After inhaling coffee and getting a bunch of pictures of course.

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Sprouts, burgers, cupcakes – 35/52 :)

August 29, 2016

This past week has been crazy busy. I’ve been out and about, and was only able to touch my laptop during the last hour every evening, but I’d usually pass out thirty minutes into it. Most of my screen time has been spent writing emails to professors and coordinating schedules for special events. Not too much blogging going on. I’ve only just started writing up this post on Sunday night, and I’m trying to recollect all the happy moments from this past week, but all I want to do right now is go to sleep! When this post goes live, I’ll be one hour into my first class of the semester. In other news, I have a ton of apartment updates for you, but I’m not sure when I’ll get around to editing the photos and writing it up.

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Catch me burrowed in a book with some boba on hand. My life is pretty average, but it’s the little things that count, right? Thanks for stopping by! -Audrey

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