My 2024 I made little progress this year. My enthusiasm was spent, my body worn down, and a wretched “industry” left me almost no time for a year to record what I saw and heard. In Such a Hurry, With No Time for Anything Else I will not name the industry. One can infer the whole from a part: under the current employment winter, things are probably much the same everywhere. ...
My 2023 I started this blog on a whim, never expecting it to last more than a year. I dedicate this post to the year that has passed. I am ashamed to say that it has been a long time since I wrote anything literary. As a science-and-engineering person, I never accumulated much literary learning, and I returned every scrap of classical Chinese I memorized in high school to my teachers. I am now in the state of knowing that some classical line must describe my feelings perfectly, while not remembering what it is. Please bear with me. ...