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Chinese. You?

Oh, are you from China, Japan, South Korea, or Vietnam? These places all have the custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.

Nice to see someone doing a serious introduction of dragonboat. Host states that the festival "did not start with Qu Yuan but rather some centuries before him with a variety of seasonal events that gradually got lumped together into what we see today, Qu mostly added a reason for this to become a 'patriotic festival' and get officially recognized instead of ignored". I just appreciate the holidays. And zongzi, they're nice, Even though I can never tie them up right and they end up falling apart.

Cool to learn about your culture, Andre! 😊

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. This festival is in memory of the poet Qu Yuan. On this day, we will eat zongzi (glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) during one of our meals, and some people will also hold dragon boat races. Qu Yuan was a loyal poet and official over 2,000 years ago. He loved his country but was misunderstood and exiled. When his homeland was invaded, he drowned himself in the Miluo River. Locals raced out in boats to save him and threw rice into the river to feed the fish so they wouldn’t eat his body. That’s how dragon boat races and zongzi began. By the way, people from southern and northern China have a dispute over the taste of zongzi. Zongzi can be either sweet or salty. It is a kind of food made by wrapping glutinous rice with fillings, then wrapping it with reed leaves (the reed leaves act as packaging), and finally securing it with a rope. Sweet zongzi usually use red dates, red beans as fillings, or have no fillings at all, and are eaten with white sugar. Salty zongzi, on the other hand, usually use pork, chicken or egg yolk as fillings... People who like one type of zongzi often joke that the other type is an "heresy". Personally, I prefer sweet zongzi.

Glad to hear! 😊

Hey matt Finally someone brings it up. I never got the importance of this stupid thing

I've been doing well lately

Good morning, Andre! 😊 How are you?

good morning everyone!

She did! 😊 Well, she'd probably say learning but I know she like the project where we had to water color the most. 😁 I believe it. We really want to get touch and visual imposition skills the most. The progress report has helped keep us consistent but we still have a mental block about visual imposition. (Mostly because it's intimidating to us.) Edit: I hope everything goes well in the end, Matt.

She's good, she says hi I've been a bit on edge lately, I see things that I've seen happen once or twice already and I fear I have no control over it happening again History has a funny way of repeating itself, and it's rarely ever fair

Good day Matt. How are you and Cheryl? I hope Jezebel enjoyed taking the art class. What part of the lesson did she enjoy best? Imposition is one of the best parts of tulpamancy. I could experiment with Twi for hours. The one thing that drew me to imposition is the quasi-physical closeness it enables. I've not gotten to full-blown immersion but she's very apparent on account of how long she's been alive.

They're 200mg ibuprofens, the normal kind Three very rarely cures headaches for me, 4 always does, but in the rare 5% or so cases presumably 5 were needed Unfortunately taking more ibuprofen doesn't do anything for me at least, even if it's only 45 minutes later - I actually took 3 more this time about an hour later but it didn't matter, no difference Anyways I think I'm going to sleep, good night

Of course! 😊 I've been great! 😁 All we have to do is spell/grammar check our work and send it in and then we'll be done with our summer class! 🤩 More time to give to the many other things we want to do. (Like hopefully Imposition practice.)

sup Karl

Thank you very much, Shaula. How have you been? @Luminesce hi there

Poor you. (I don't really know what else to say.)

that's a lot. unless they're really small pills or something

four ibuprofen wasn't enough for this headache, dang, that's rare wasn't even that bad of a headache before, but a headache that won't go away is a bad headache so

Another WBTB lucid dream, courtesy of me going to sleep at 5AM, and getting bombarded with phone calls / messages at 8-9AM up until I just gave up and left the bed, spent a few hours awake, then tried to sleep again. The dream was nothing special, it was me driving and arriving home (from an unknown location) and after parking the car I noticed that literally everyone on the street was staring at me (this is likely a reference from one of my favourite movies) The situation immediately sussed me out, and I asked Cheryl what was wrong - that was probably the "trigger" that made me realize "welp, this is a dream" I didn't fly around or do weird stuff, I just walked around and calmly tried to keep everything "stable" - there's the ending part that I don't remember because not every detail can be remembered in a LD but I know it "collapsed" into hypnagogia, and I woke up IRL with the usual adrenaline rush that makes you alert.

Belated hi Karl

Belated hi, Karl! 😊