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I've found myself unable to focus as of late. I forced myself to spend 4 hours in Tealuxe yesterday evening reading papers and making notes, so I feel like I'm making some headway on the "paper topic" front but today...? To get a gauge on how low my motivation meter is at the moment: I felt like I accomplished alot when I got out of bed and ate breakfast. It's all downhill from there.

Here's a link to Xu Wenli's speech that I mentioned what seemed like eons ago, that he made during my Baccalaureate Ceremony. It's somewhat less captivating when being read instead of being heard first in Chinese then in English while surrounded by 1000+ damp but exuberant graduates, but only less so.

Because he almost made me tear up (honest to God; I chalk it up to a weird combination of both the horrid weather and my wacky hormones), a shout out to