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Sunday, March 11, 2018

post #62

main points:

- had delicious brunch at a xiao long bao place

- (painful?) massage

- dessert at prince tea house

- early dinner at a changsha restaurant

- flew home to boston

#memorable day

today i:

- woke up around 9:30am, my mom woke me up to tell me she was gonna go downstairs in the hotel to try out the breakfast. she just wanted a light snack before we went out to get food brunch

i went back to sleep, but decided to actually get out of bed after like 10 minutes. cause i’ve been going to sleep at like 3am every night, i figured i should probably try to reset my sleeping schedule

- my mom and i chilled for a bit and i watched like the first 20 minutes of lala land on HBO on the TV

- we went to the xiao long bao place nearby, it was sooooo good. and had some chinese crepe with beef

what a great meal :) 

- after we finished eating, it was like 11:20am. my mom went to go get her haircut and i took care of checking out of the hotel. i watched some of terminator salvation on HBO and then checked out at 12pm (cause that’s when we had to check out)

we left our luggage with the reception and then went to go get a massage which was also super close by in fulton square

it was pretty painful... and pretty expensive (imo) $55/hr. i’ve never been to other massage places but apparently it’s cheaper relatively speaking??

anyway the massage guy was in like his 50s and gave me a full body massage. i went in and changed first into the clothes they provided and then lied down. he started pressing on all the pressure points on my upper back. some of the pressure points hurt and others didn’t. we conversed in chinese here and there throughout the session and i was able to follow along with what he was saying for the most part. i was pretty happy with that. my chinese teacher in freshman year of college said you can get by in china with like knowing 1000 characters. i stopped taking the class and took the chinese SAT to get language credit but thinking about it now, i feel like i know maybe 500 characters...? so that’s how i sort of got by in the conversation

but yeah anyway, it was so painful. he said he was pushing really hard on the pressure points in my back, legs, and arms so that my body would naturally tighten up. then once he let go, my body would also release and ease up. 

while i was lying down i actually did feel pretty relaxed. as the session went on i got more and more relaxed. but then once it was over, i stood up and omg. i was in so much pain. (i’m still in pain as i type this post). mostly in my upper right back because that’s where he worked a lot on trying to release the pressure point. apparently the more healthy you are, the less pain you feel in these pressure points/they come more naturally. 

so my mom felt like it wasn’t as bad but yeah. that was an interesting experience.

- we went to prince tea house to have some dessert/mid afternoon snack

we finished around 2:30pm and then went to the supermarket to buy some groceries. 

- we brought our groceries with us to the changsha restaurant cause we couldn’t leave them in the hotel and didn’t want to go through the hassle of going through valet parking just to put the groceries in the car. so we had our early dinner around like 3pm (cause my flight was around dinner time). i was so full from what we ate earlier so i didn’t really eat much but it was good nonetheless. i took some to go so i can have that as a meal later tomorrow or something

- picked up our luggage from the hotel, got the car out of valet parking, and headed to LGA around 4:15pm. we were very early/before schedule so there was no rush.

- i checked in and got past security within like 15 minutes because there wasn’t any line really. so then i basically had like an hour and a half to kill before the plane left at 7pm to go to boston. it started boarding around 6:30pm and i had gotten in around 4:40pm

- i just watched some smash 4 matches and fortnite gameplay. ty unlimited free wifi LGA. i downloaded S4EP3 Crocodile and S4EP4 on my phone to watch on the plane. but yeah just chilled for two hours and then boarded the plane

- watched S4EP3 Crocodile on the plane, i was unable to finish the full episode.

- landed around 8pm, took the T out of logan airport and then took an uber from south station cause that was so much cheaper than calling an uber from the airport. airport was like $25 for pool and $30 for uberX. $40 on lyft. after i got to south station, a pool was $11. very worth

- i got home, unpacked my stuff and finished the Crocodile episode. it was pretty messed up. but on reddit i saw an interesting point that this episode wasn’t focused on the tech. like the memory recaller could’ve not been in this episode and the investigator could’ve just been really smart/sharp and the same events would’ve happened (potentially). but yeah still an interesting episode

- picked up my new wallet that came in the mail. took a long shower and now i’m just backing up my vlog and phone files. gonna play fortnite with dimitri soon and then go to sleep

- no CSDS discussion tomorrow morning, WOO

very fun day overall. i really enjoyed the day and a half vacation to flushing. i really wish my sister and dad could’ve come :/

okay good night. i’m finishing this post at 11:52pm, i’m kind of tired, i might actually not play fortnite. who knows