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Quarantine Hobbies Pt 1: Frank

We’re actually using the kitchen now. Or rather, Frank is using it such that 6.5/7 of our meals don’t come from takeout anymore. Some highlights:

We tried jjapaguri, or “ramdon” as it was named in Parasite. Verdict: not that great.

Totally Normal Start to the Year

Don’t even know why I’m making this post, as 2020 has been entirely normal so far.

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…So yeah, there’s no way in my last post I could have predicted that COVID-19 would essentially cancel the second quarter (if not half) of 2020. Sure, at the end of 2019 I was aware of the rapid spread and quarantine in Wuhan but I (and it seems everyone else) didn’t anticipate it would spread worldwide. The previous viruses like SARS and Bird Flu seemed much more contained and…”over there,” so to speak. But it escalated so rapidly “over here” in the last few weeks, especially here in NYC.
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2020s Decade Predictions

It’s already the end of the second decade of the 2000s! (Well ACKSHULLY some people would say that won’t be til 2021, but let’s just go with it.) What were some of the biggest cultural changes of the last 10 years? (I’ll limit myself to 5 to keep the list concise.)
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