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Day off! Went out to eat at this great tasting korean place where I ordered a meat jun and soft tofu soup combo. Really good tasting, relatively affordable, and big portions; I have a ton of the soft tofu soup for my breakfast tomorrow. Ate some souffle pancakes and drank a boba tea from a boba place next door. The souffle pancakes were rather lackluster, but the brown sugar boba more than made up for it.

Of course, I hit the gym today. Upper 1 with 3000m on the rowing machine after. I've been really trying to dial in my arm movements. I'm a huge fan of the basic ez bar curls and the DB curls. I want bigger biceps. I was talking to a friend recently about the important muscles for a good physique. I said shoulders were a top priority, but he thought back was higher. The thing we both agreed on was big arms. When we worked out together, my other friend would call in on most movements but would always focus when hitting curls. There's definitely something there with that.

I started drafting up my The Brothers Karamazov "review." It's really just a collection of my thoughts on the book and an exploration of what I got from it. I think it's a good thing to do that for every book I read as a way to undertand my feelings about it. That's probably why people are so obssessed with journaling: you understand yourself better; the only thing you ever need to understand. Blogging's been like that for me since I just use it as a little public journal. It feels good to know exactly what your stance is on things that interest you rather than vague feelings. Not that abstractness is a bad thing, but like anything it needs moderation. I think the human mind loves open-endedness. You can go down this rabbit hole of moving things around in your mind when you really just need to choose something. It's also just nice to be able to explain to someone exactly why you feel a certain way. Something I've been thinking of.