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disappointed_lesbian ([personal profile] disappointed_lesbian) wrote2024-12-21 07:23 pm

Korean Study Plan. Rice. Human Trash.

After buying a Korean textbook and paying for several months' worth of a language learning app subscription, I've finally settled in somewhat with a free online Korean course. It's only eight lessons long. With that as a foundation, I'll try going back to the textbook, and, perhaps one day, the app, if I feel that I need it.

I'd never studied a language for which the didactic format was so important. Beginning a language is usually the easiest part.

The rain started in an hour after I started my walk. Fortunately, I was already on my way home to use the restroom. I stayed in and worked on my Korean study plan. Once I've built up a sufficient beginner's vocabulary, I'm going to jump right into kpop videos to build up my skills in the language, much like I've jumped into Mandarin podcasts.

Today I've been quite angry and frustrated as I remember all the times people have talked down to me, assumed I didn't know things, stuff like that. There's no social pleasure to be had when person after person fails to see one for who one is, or to at least refrain from assuming.

People are just trash it seems.

As delicious is rice is, it's not as satisfying as potatoes nor mung bean noodles (my other staple cooked foods). So I won't have so much of it going forward. Indeed, I haven't been having as much of it as I thought I'd have; it seems I've gotten tired of it rather quickly. At the same time, I'm really appreciating the convenience of fruit-based meals. They save time on cooking and food prep, which helps me to stay in the flow of whatever I'm interrupting to eat (it's always something). Now that I think about it, settling down with a plate of cooked food is precisely when I'm most prone to getting stuck watching court trial videos.

The more I lose, the more difficult is losing more weight. All that being said, next month is a good time for an updated dieting strategy. Rice is out; more bananas is in. Rice can be an occasional treat. The way I feel about it now, maybe it'd be a treat only when it's occasional. I won't much miss it.

Also I hope to find a way to load up on greens to, I hope, increase satiety.