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2019-Feb-11, Monday 08:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Last night was extra tiring because I had serious insomnia mixed with restlessness that made it very hard to lie still. I eventually managed to fall asleep after putting on a meditation podcast and focusing on my breathing only to have horrible nightmares basically all night, so here I am at work falling asleep. Sigh.
Last Saturday was a Lunar New Year day. There was a parade on Argyle Street that I went to--another thing that's been going on for years and this is the first time I've been--that was neat, albeit shorter than I expected. The big parade was on Sunday in Chinatown, but that's much further from my apartment and I wanted Sunday to recover. The parade was mostly floats from local or city organizations like the Argyle Night Market, the Chinese Consulate, the CTA, and the Hip Sing Association. There were two groups of dragon dancers and one group of musicians, but the parade wasn't very long. After less than ten minutes everything had gone by as I stood on the corner of Broadway and Ainslie, and then I got a mess of macarons at t'oui across the street. My picture of macarons got twice the Instagram likes of my pictures of the parade, because food.
Saturday night I went to![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
meowtima's Lunar New Year dumpling party! I got complimented on my outfit and had a Frenchman swooning over my voice within ten minutes of walking in, so of course I had a good time, but a lot of it was also due to meowtima's cooking. There were a ton of pork and veggie dumplings, and the veggie dumplings were filled with a delicious mushroom medley. Also, ![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
fang.the.tall made a Malaysian yee sang, and while I missed the tossing I got to eat the salad. And of course, as soon as I mentioned that duck fat was fine but pork was not (the pork dumplings were fried in duck fat), I got into a discussion about Jewish dietary laws. These things just happen. 
A woman also asked for my number and then...asked for my Twitch profile? I'm genuinely unsure if this is a kids-these-days moment or a unique incident.
Yesterday I briefly thought about going to the parade down in Chinatown, but instead I stayed inside, played Dragon Age: Origins, and did my taxes. I realize that a lot of people are getting smaller or no refunds this year due to deliberate deceit by the current regime, and because of that it feels extra unpleasant that I got a huge refund due to the tax law changes from 2017 mixed with my life circumstances. Apparently there's a weird change to taxes on dividends that saved me $600? Thanks, I guess.
Too bad the rest of that bill is going to bankrupt the country.
Alright, back to work and trying to stay awake.
Last Saturday was a Lunar New Year day. There was a parade on Argyle Street that I went to--another thing that's been going on for years and this is the first time I've been--that was neat, albeit shorter than I expected. The big parade was on Sunday in Chinatown, but that's much further from my apartment and I wanted Sunday to recover. The parade was mostly floats from local or city organizations like the Argyle Night Market, the Chinese Consulate, the CTA, and the Hip Sing Association. There were two groups of dragon dancers and one group of musicians, but the parade wasn't very long. After less than ten minutes everything had gone by as I stood on the corner of Broadway and Ainslie, and then I got a mess of macarons at t'oui across the street. My picture of macarons got twice the Instagram likes of my pictures of the parade, because food.
Saturday night I went to
A woman also asked for my number and then...asked for my Twitch profile? I'm genuinely unsure if this is a kids-these-days moment or a unique incident.
Yesterday I briefly thought about going to the parade down in Chinatown, but instead I stayed inside, played Dragon Age: Origins, and did my taxes. I realize that a lot of people are getting smaller or no refunds this year due to deliberate deceit by the current regime, and because of that it feels extra unpleasant that I got a huge refund due to the tax law changes from 2017 mixed with my life circumstances. Apparently there's a weird change to taxes on dividends that saved me $600? Thanks, I guess.
Too bad the rest of that bill is going to bankrupt the country.Alright, back to work and trying to stay awake.
