As of this writing I’ve been riding (homophone alert!!) this bike for about 13 years, which is the longest I’ve consistently ridden any single bike. I think (hope) it could last another 13 years. The process of putting it together was kind of slow and took about three years total. As with many useful skills, though, the struggle was kind of the point — I ended up with not only a…
Since my last update to this page in June 2025, I took a woodworking intensive and started renting out a just-for-fun studio space to make stuff in (not necessarily just wooden things but anything, like a personal makerspace) have been trying to fill a specific gap in my movie repertoire, which is mid-tier R-rated movies from the early ’90s that I wasn’t allowed to watch as a kid but…
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Ever notice how cute craft beer cans are these days? Me too.
Hi and welcome to my website. I'm Rachel, a queer Korean American woman of average height in New York City. Like you, I am a denizen of the internet. There are lots of things you can say about yourself on an About page but I’ll tell you briefly that in 2016, I quit my job as a doctor (specifically, training to be a surgeon), which was the most important decision I have made about anything…
My dad has a pretty extensive collection of hats. A couple years ago he had an acute health event and was hospitalized for weeks, so I went home to visit and help my mom. It was scary and sad. One afternoon I was alone at their house between hospital visits, looking for something to occupy time and brainspace, and found his hats scattered in various closets and shelves around the house. I had a…
I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be…
I use Hugo and DeployHQ to generate and deploy the site, respectively, and Github to host the source code. Locally, I use Sublime Text to write and edit code, as well as Markdown files which constitute the content. (More gear and tech here .) This cool illustration of my visage was done by my friend Leigh Peterson , who also taught me how to bathe a cat . (Those were two separate favors.) I…
26 Decided to break up the Alaska photos (from my 12/23 update ) into smaller galleries since I couldn’t make enough decisions about which ones to cut. Here’s one from Mendenhall glacier. 25 Took a long-ish Christmas walk around the lake. I made lions head meatballs for dinner. 24 I made a decaf coffee in the afternoon with a spoonful of hot cocoa mix and whipped cream. Decadent! 23…
These are the last 50 movies I logged at Letterboxd .