Blog Updates

​Days Sick: 7Days Danced: 0For the first week of September I was pretty sick with a cold or the flu or something that made my throat hurt some’n fierce. Eventually it downgraded to a strong cough and the covid test came back negative, but it still left me in near complete silence over Labor Day …

Days sick: 1Days danced: 0This is gonna be the shortest monthly update ever (so far), because TBH I feel like crap rolled in thumbtacks. A few days into the month, I woke up with absolutely debilitating cramps, and my roommate’s sister helped me through it, along with a phone call from my parents and an …

Damn, and I thought last year was long?! What a joke. Tomorrow is my birthday, and unlike last year, I refuse to spend it working. I hereby give myself permission to read all day tomorrow, if needed. I began 24 leaving my home in South Korea after 3 full years, embarking upon a travel adventure …

​Days sick: 0Days danced: 0This month’s update will be relatively short. July marks over half of 2020 being in the past, and as of today, I’m a week out from being 25. I’ve been pretty reflective over the last few weeks, and since I’m still in quarantine, quite frankly there’s not much to report. Also, this …

Days sick: 0Days danced: 0This month I was getting a lot of tests done, reconnecting with a lot of people, moving back into DC, and starting a new venture (or two) online. I did some seminars & other book learnin’ for work-related things, in addition to (almost) finishing the redesign of my site. What I’m …

Days sick: 0 (sooooort of)Days danced: 0 I can sum up this month in just a few sentences: I’ve been working, biking, crying; I almost moved out of ran away from my childhood home, bottomed out emotionally, and then finally took my illness into my own hands. After weeks of nighttime agony and years of …

Days Sick: 0Days Danced: 0This was my first full calendar month of quarantine. As if my mental health wasn’t already in enough peril, I didn’t leave the house more than a couple times a week, and still haven’t seen any old friends. It’s a weird, anxious time to be me (or anyone else suffering through …

​Days sick: 0Days danced: 0At the beginning of March, everything seemed a bit bad in Italy, but we were still planning to spend a few days in Sicily. By the end of the month we were more than two weeks deep into a required quarantine in the US. A Delightful End to Belgium When I …

Unlike in coffee, the chocolate industry has relatively few large conferences open to the public. The industry is still quite secretive, except for one segment— craft. The specialty, or bean to bar chocolate industry is a subset which has built its customer base on the standard of transparency. So it only makes sense that one …

Days sick: 0Days danced: 1Although this month started out very stressful, it ended rather tranquilo. While Asia saw coronavirus unsurprisingly explode, I left the continent and headed to Europe for the first time in nearly 7 years, making it to my first huge chocolate festival in about as much time! Seminyak, Ubud, and Done Arriving …