my favorite things...

as the title suggests. as of April 24, 2025.

to do

• play violin in ensembles! particularly orchestra and string quartets
• listen to 19th century Romantic era classics (ideally live in concerts)
• read HTML blogs
• write letters and make mail art
• chronicling daily life in my journal (a habit since the pandemic)
• sculpting miniatures and crafting with clay + resin
• solo traveling and taking trains in Europe by myself

to watch

• Whisper of the Heart
• Shadow and Bone and its cast videos
• Smosh reading Reddit Stories
• "And so we put goldfish in the pool." (2017 film) directed by Makoto Nagahisa
• Kiki's Delivery Service

to listen to

• Mendelssohn String Quartet no. 2 in A Minor
• Beethoven String Quartet no. 8 in E Minor
• Sibelius Violin Concerto
• Beethoven Violin Concerto
• Brahms Symphony no. 4
• Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6
• Mahler Symphony no. 1
• The Dover Quartet playing literally anything
• Film Scores: Cinema Paradiso and La La Land