Every five or ten books I test my ability to read literary fiction again after reading primarily genre books and the minute some Real Shit™️ happens, I’m out!!!

A girl who looked about 12 called me Jiejie or big sister today on the street and I was so flabbergasted I couldn’t speak for a second. She doesn’t know I’m forty years old and you know what, now I’m not. 🙏🏾😅

I’m not asking for much, just a ticket to see BTS the year. Amen

It’s exam week and I’ve been proctoring exams with one EarPod in, walking circles around classrooms while listening to regency era romance novels. 10/10 experience. My step count is higher than usual!

Last man who dumped me quite spectacularly was Iranian and I am weighing the pros and cons of checking on him because I’m pretty sure he went home a while ago. What is the protocol?!?

I got a new sleep mask and I’m sorely tempted to slip this bad boy on and slide into bed at 7:35pm.

The jury is still out on 2026 until Lunar New Year.

Hi. My name is Monet. I’m forty years old and I’m still shocked by: 1) cold weather in the winter 2) my period 3) my credit card bill 4) men

See you get it!

I’m still thinking about how most of y’all woke up to the news about Venezuela but I was fully in the middle of my day like ????? Texting my brother in Korea like YOU SEEING THIS?

America’s junk food is unrivaled

McDonald’s had limited edition McGriddles (here in China)for four days and I found out on the third day, which was for the best because ya girl had two McGriddles and I would’ve had one every day if I’d known.

????? Why though?!!!???

Mmmm booking a flight to start the year. That’s the good stuff.

Going into a 6-day work week AND it’s review week before finals. I feel like I should wear a football helmet.

Returning to an unfinished diary in the early days of January of every year is apparently my kink.

There was a time when everything this one Famous Male Writer said was law to me and I have to own that it was more my fault than his.

Truly! Thunder and lightning, car noises. I’m on the edge of my seat

Answering machines, pagers, floppy disks! Some y’all weren’t there!

I’ve been listening to audiobooks from the late 80s and early 90s and they have jazz interludes and sound effects and we need to bring this back! Give me drama! Theater!

Robert Laidler’s “Jr” on a Poem-a-Day!!!

Do you know the feeling of liking a tidbit of a song and finding out it’s from a famous band…like the Beatles? Sometimes I forgot that I can’t know every single song that’s ever been written and performed.

I was carried on the back of my cold brew through today. Barely made it.

I want to be with you everywhere!

First person narration will expose whether or not you have writing chops REAL FAST.

Eric Bana being extra fine to me with his salt and pepper hair is signaling a shift in taste.

These are students who will be abroad in an American college by this time next year! The awakening! The reckoning! The bewilderment! The incoming heartbreak. Bless!

It was a lesson on How People Met (their romantic partners) & we talked about the loss of the 3rd Place in American culture and I kept wanting to reference the show Cheers but even I was too young for that so then I realized they would know the coffee shop from Friends and 🙄😒

And I quote “Why would you do that?” Me standing there stunned at the beautiful simplicity of their lives.

Was shocked when my seniors were shocked by the idea of 1) dating without the intention of marriage and 2) dating more than one person at the same time. I forget and they have no idea that there are still many differing cultural norms between China and many western countries.