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jhameiaI finished another non-fiction book yesterday! It was about the Yuan and Ming dynasties, their similarities and environmental concerns. It was very interesting, and I learned about another great vernacular novel (the only ones I knew of was Journey to the West and Dreamm of the Red Chamber), Plum in the Golden Vase, which is apparently super pornographic! I went looking for a translation and apparently it exists in SEVERAL VOLUMES because ugh. But I also found this review which honestly makes me want to read the book even more:
OH MY GOD A POISONED BOOK SO DIRTY ITS VICTIM WAS SUCKERED INTO ITS TRAP?!?!?!?! SIGN ME UP!!!!!!!!
I have two or three more books I need to get back to the library and have decided I will avoid being on my main computer until I finish them. So, have been trying to read as much as I can while not on my phone.
Still have not gone back to the gym. On Sunday, I did eat a whole pint of ice cream, the result of which was, I woke up at 1am, 2am, 3am, and 5am on Monday morning, with anxiety and an accelerated heartrate, which was very not cool, and decided to sleep until it was time to go to work, and even then, I considered not going in. I decided to go in anyway and texted my boss, warning her that I looked like a mopey trash panda, and she offered to let me work at home.
And just, have not been feeling any better. I took work home yesterday, and today I checked myself out in the mirror, and I looked significantly less like a trash panda than before. Drinking lots of water and sleeping 9 hours really helps! Still not up to cooking, and have been eating mediocre Chinese food instead, which I guess all told is not too terrible.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be up to going to the gym. I'm trying out this new menstrual cup, my first one ever, and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it.
The Roy translation is well over 3,000 pages long, if you include the index and notes. So the arrival of a full translation of the Chin Ping Mei is a bit of good news-bad news situation: There’s a masterpiece out there finally, but it might take you a year to read it.
Taking a year is at least worth thinking about. The working legend of its creation is that the author, Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, the Scoffing Scholar of Lanling, wrote it to revenge the murder of his father, sending the manuscript to the murderer with poison rubbed into the corners. The victim couldn’t put the book down and died after finishing it in a single sitting.
OH MY GOD A POISONED BOOK SO DIRTY ITS VICTIM WAS SUCKERED INTO ITS TRAP?!?!?!?! SIGN ME UP!!!!!!!!
I have two or three more books I need to get back to the library and have decided I will avoid being on my main computer until I finish them. So, have been trying to read as much as I can while not on my phone.
Still have not gone back to the gym. On Sunday, I did eat a whole pint of ice cream, the result of which was, I woke up at 1am, 2am, 3am, and 5am on Monday morning, with anxiety and an accelerated heartrate, which was very not cool, and decided to sleep until it was time to go to work, and even then, I considered not going in. I decided to go in anyway and texted my boss, warning her that I looked like a mopey trash panda, and she offered to let me work at home.
And just, have not been feeling any better. I took work home yesterday, and today I checked myself out in the mirror, and I looked significantly less like a trash panda than before. Drinking lots of water and sleeping 9 hours really helps! Still not up to cooking, and have been eating mediocre Chinese food instead, which I guess all told is not too terrible.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be up to going to the gym. I'm trying out this new menstrual cup, my first one ever, and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it.
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