march 2026

2026年4月1日

I wanted to delete these recaps because I thought they were too personal. But I decided to keep them up because I care more about looking back on these as memories than the cringe I feel from having other people read it. Though I might cringe at myself anyway.

Events

• I skied for the first time ever, and ended up skiing four times total at three different ski resorts. It was fun, but more physically demanding than expected. If there’s a chance I would like to go back and learn to parallel ski so it’s less strenuous on the legs. For now I can do greens. I learned the ideal ski length for me right now is 160 cm.
• Honestly that was the main highlight, the rest of the month has been pretty uneventful otherwise.
  • I played this zombie FPS game on roblox with my youngest brother lol
  • Visited some cats
  • Tried taking 1.5g melatonin a could so I could sleep better. It like sometimes works idk, sometimes I sleep more but other days days the deep sleep duration on my Apple watch is way lower than I expected (or would like) after I take it
• I don’t really have friends to hang out with right now. I’m not sure if I’m very lonely to be honest but kinda feels like I’m mourning past versions of my life.

Consumption

I will say I feel like I consumed even more this month than February. GG what happened to creating more. More academic stuff though i.e. learning so a bit better?

Academic

• Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap
• Chapters from Understanding Deep Learning
  • GNN and RL
• James H. Simons, PhD: Using Mathematics to Make Money
• Paperscape
  • Graph visualization of arxiv papers, it’s cool
• TradeFM: A Generative Foundation Model for Trade-flow and Market Microstructure
  • JPM AI Research
• Why ML Needs a New Programming Language
  • Jane Street Podcast
• A fistful of Bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names
• How to Peel a Million: Validating and Expanding Bitcoin Clusters
• A graph placement methodology for fast chip design
  • Google Research
• Volatility Trading by Euan Sinclair

Media

• Watching
  • Singles Inferno (S5) + random content coming out after
    • Weird how the contestants are around my age now
  • Jack of All Trades, Party of None
    • Finished this anime from last month
  • Love Through a Prism
    • First romance anime in a long time
    • Animated by Studio Wit (who did AOT LOL) and distributed via Netflix
    • Art is really really good
  • Bakemonogatari
    • Some insane anime my friend rec’d
    • Animated by Studio Shaft same studio as Madoka Magica
  • Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord
    • Some random Isekai I always end up watching
  • Release That Witch
    • Originally a chinese webnovel
    • Watched a couple episodes of the donghua, very surprised it got an adaptation
  • Still too much YouTube and Instagram
    • Did watch interesting panel going through history of Anime Sakuga
• Reading
  • King’s Avatar (全职高手)
    • Finished it this month! A solid read. Wish they had more.
  • Blue Lock
    • Still following
  • Toriko
    • Food manga I read in middle school maybe, reread it for nostalgia
    • Furthering my appreciation of food after Culinary Class War
  • Yowamushi Pedal
    • Cycling sports manga, read through the first arc

Music

Some music I listened to during this time.

Also the new Bruno Mars album and new BTS album.

Food

• Black Razzberry La Croix, tastes like nerds
• A ramen place which is actually owned by taiwanese people so they serve 卤肉饭 and 担仔面
• Went to a Chinese breakfast place!
  • Basically homemade 豆奶，油条，蒸水蛋，豆花，饭团 so good
• Korean Fried Chicken
• During my ski trip
  • a pho place (it was alright)
  • a ramen place (which was not that good)
  • a european restaurant which was good
    • had fondue for the first time which had an unexpected flavor
    • main was Schweinshaxe (I think it was more like the Austrian Stelze) which was tasty
  • various honeys from a honey shop, the lemon honey is very good
  • a bit too much McDonald’s
  • Taco Bell lol
  • some bbq place (brisket chilli + cornbread)
    • chilli was weirdly sour
  • japan’s egg salad sandwhich from 7-11
    • it costs so much here in the US
• AYCE Sushi and AYCE hot pot (on different days)
• I meal prepped for the first time in a long time. Instant pot japanese curry! Made like 5 meals for less than $15 yippee

Creation

• I don’t think I created anything this month except for my previous recap post and my Toriko post rip.

Statistics

• I went to the gym 14 times
  • A little less than last month but makes sense bc of the skiing
• My average steps was 8911 in February
  • Higher than last month!
• My average sleep duration was 7h52m in March with an average sleep score of ~83.8 over the whole month (recorded 29 days).
  • Both are higher! But also I think my deep sleep has weirdly been impacted, seems lower on some days than usual
• Over the whole month my weight was still hovering around 209 lbs

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