Today passed really really fast, and it's passing by fast even as I write this. I woke up early around 7:15 but stayed in bed and slept a little more until 8:15. Got ready, shaved, etc, out of the bathroom by 9:15. Had some leftover pasta for breakfast and a little more for lunch. Had some iced green tea lemonade around 10:15 and sucked down a mugful of immersion brew coffee around 12:25. God, I miss using my AeroPress. Which isn't knocking the Hario Switch at all -- I did use it to easily brew a huge batch of coffee some weeks ago, I'm thankful I have it -- but something about that bypass brewing tastes so satisfying. I didn't write or read much for Helios, but I didn't gorge myself on AI Presidents videos either. Most of my day was scratching my (telephoto zoom) (autofocus) lens itch again, and chipping away at my UCSC Orientation course. I've been looking at the EF 70-300mm DO lens, the one with the fresnel elements, and I really like it's compact form factor. Reportedly it has enough optical aberration to give it some character, which I'm intimately familiar with and adore on my 55mm f/1.2. As for my orientation course, it's been going. I did take plenty of notes for it, but its striking me just now how much emphasis there is on connecting with professors and faculty, and networking in general. Yet again my atrophied social skills come roaring to life. When I took my brother to Sunright Tea around 3:30 or so, and his friends came by and talked to him a bit, I just ignored them. My god! I should've at least said hi, or asked Seth if these were his friends. If someone did that to me I would feel very awkward. I can't bring this kind of attitude to campus. I don't know why I act like that, other than the recurring feeling of not knowing the answer /mind blanking every time a person comes face to face with me outside work or whatever. Next time I will do better! For dinner grandma made some stuffed bittermelon soup (so good) and some stirfried Japanese pumpkin and pork (also good). Spent the rest of the night still looking up lenses.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391