this is extremely specific i am aware

(alysa liu is chinese american and well worth reading up on for what she and her family went through ahead of beijing 22. her back story is wild for many other reasons but she seems to have handled it well.)

he's very beloved but not very consistent! i'm talking about sui/han, dude retired three years ago with a BACK injury he couldn't rehab and they're throwing him out there. his start pose is literally lying on the ice which is very relatable as someone slightly younger than him.

cup of china is on rn if you want to watch the chinese federation drag now-elderly skaters out of retirement because they've realised they have no olympic medal prospects (very pathetic now russia's barely competing)

i am not referring to mike d but equally i am not opposed to a beastie boy in áras an uachtaráin

higgins was keynote speaker at our (the most leftie socialist european trade union federation) congress and he was so proud of his speech there that he used it as a lead in a book of speeches he published, which i have sitting on my shelf because he sent it to us. www.irishtimes.com/news/politic...

(i somehow only packed for tomorrow. les petits riens and hema are on my way to work so i got trousers and a top in les petits riens and underwear in hema (plus hair stuff that i'd also forgotten)

the song is quite bad to begin with but i shouldn't feel dread at the prospect of a couple of months of crutches when i hear it. worst use of pavlovian conditioning i can think of.

i think i just thought all countries with crap weather would have good apples? maybe they've bred all the sour crispness out of their apples

belgian apples are rotten and i'm done with lying to them, they don't even have bramleys

a second group of scouts has joined, all tiny girls carrying either backpacks or suitcases twice their size and weight. they somehow have to carry them through the whole train, up and down stairs. is this hiking?