Archive • Alan's Miscellanea • Buttondown

February 18, 2023

Life For 4th of July weekend, Adeena and I took a trip to Nashville. It was motivated by 2 reasons – Nashville hot chicken and visiting Tennessee as my 46th...

October 9, 2022

Life On the way back to Seattle from Mexico City, we intentionally chose an itinerary with a 6 hour layover in LA to go to Koreatown. In hindsight, it was a...

September 6, 2022

Life Like April, May was a prolific month of travel for me – in total, I was probably in New York for less than a week. After a few short trips in the first...

Life On the first day of April, I flew to Dallas to meet an old High School friend who was soon heading to China for work. Working in China since COVID...

Life Getting COVID was unpleasant, but overall it was actually a better experience than the flus I used to catch once a year. My symptoms were pretty mild:...

January + February 2022

Life I spent most of January at home recharging, wary of the Omicron wave. Despite this, NYC continued to operate like pre-Omicron; during the peak in early...

Life Looking back at December, it was the calm before the Omicron storm. I felt a sense of deja vu as the variant started showing up around the world, and...

October & November 2021

January 2, 2022

Life I spent most of October in NYC, beginning to form a routine to my new life as I settled into my apartment and as work became more rhythmic. I started...

December 9, 2021

Life I had about a week to get settled in to NYC before I started work. During that week, I spent most of my time finding an apartment. With a friend who...

November 8, 2021

Life The last stop of my 2-month excursion in Europe was Paris. It was my first time in the world's most iconic tourist destination. Predictably, I checked...

October 4, 2021

Life After Italy, I had originally planned on going to Portugal and Spain, but the rapidly spreading Delta variant made me reconsider. On the second last day...

August 31, 2021

Life I officially became homeless on 5/31, when my lease in Berkeley ended. After the apartment was completely emptied, I flew to Seattle to stay with Adeena...

I've decided to start journaling periodically as I begin the next chapter of life. My goal is to encapsulate the experiences, thoughts, and memories of a...