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Went to the Carnegie Hall, and the NYC audience pretty bad, as expected. Highlights included an elderly couple next to me saying one offs to each other in Russian (?) and then when the woman said something during a silent moment, someone nearby yelled “Shut up!” And then not long after, two older entertainingly pretentious British (?) men (whose conversation I couldn’t help eavesdrop on earlier before the concert started) were behind me and one of their phones started to play a pop smoke song loudly and the Russian (?) guy next to me turned around and said “excuse me” and he couldn’t get it to silence, and it went on to the point where I just looked at the pianist expecting him to stop playing and the guy behind me finally got it to stop and kept whispering “oh god” while his friend sounded like he was trying not to laugh.

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I feel like part of the reason it’s easy for me to cut people out as friends is because I don’t remember old memories. Other people have memories of me being their friend, but I don’t.

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I keep telling my friends that I’m afraid I don’t remember things in my past anymore. But every now and then something in the present brings back an old memory I didn’t know I had, even the small ones. This morning in bed I started to stretch and suddenly remembered being in my parents’ bed in our old home and my parents helping me stretch. I guess sometimes I used to sleep in between them in the middle of the bed. And for some reason, even though I know which way the bed faced, my memories of being in that bed have the bed flipped against the opposite wall.

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Running Man

I started watching Running Man again, but this time I'm trying to watch while listening actively rather than passively and pausing frequently to write down new vocabulary words. I've been an emotional mess this weekend, and I'm probably going to start my period soon, but watching this show (the classics) always makes me happy and sad at the same time. Happy because it's funny, and I feel like I'm living vicariously through them. Sad because I see how young they were then vs now and because I wish my life was more fun.

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It’s been a minute since my last check-in, but I haven’t totally been slacking. Development #1 is that I invested in word cards to help me with vocabulary/kanji (I accidentally bought a set of 85 of them lolll - but they’re cute so it’s okay). Development #2 is that I bought my first book in Korean to learn more vocab and more complicated sentence structures. Duolingo in Korean wasn’t helping me that much since I already know a lot. It’s been a really slow process, but I hope it’ll pay off.

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Testing my memorization of hiragana

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hello

I'm Katty. I'm currently studying Korean and Japanese in my spare time, but I want to learn so many other things. I have a never-ending list of movies, books, and music I want to consume and hobbies I want to explore. I plan to catalog my progress here.

Recently finished:

Reading - Y/N by Esther Yi and Opus by Satoshi Kon

Watching - One Day Pina Asked... by Chantal Akerman

Listening - Moanin' by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Learning - Crazy Eights and Backgammon lol