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Yesterday, I woke up around noon. It was a decent sunday sleep-in. Rather than doing school work after getting up, I read. It felt really good, very fulfilling. Books used to be a huge chunk of my daily life, for some reason I have been putting off on books for a while, and I feel my identity has started losing its integrity. In order to avoid doing something, people always find excuses and make them sound legit. I'm very much like that. After I read today, I realized that it is not something hard to keep up at all if I just set aside an hour for books per day. Because I waste at least an hour everyday anyways. Indeed, I need to chase back my good old habit before it runs too far away from me.

Well...I went completely off topic. I wasn't going to write about reading at all. Here is what I originally planned to write:

Yesterday, I woke up late. Then I got to read a little bit. Around 6pm, I walked out of the parking garage and found out it was raining, not so bad, but it wasn't definitely just sprinkling. I never liked rain for various reasons. However, being unaware of what I was thinking. I stood in the rain for at least 10 minutes, totally spreaded my arms to embrace the raindrops. It felt surprisingly amazing! I was reminded of the song "Grace like rain", and received abundant joy. Troubles on my mind were washed away. From getting poured on intentionally for the first time, I tasted a tinge of freedom.

Rain is a great relief, snow never is.

I went to the Mindi Abair show that I mentioned in the last post. It was great! She did a wonderful job engaging the audience, and the ambiance was just enjoyable. I got to talk to her for a while after the show, and I heard the drummer got a master degree in music from USC. During the show, I video recorded a song called "Smile" which was featured on her newest release. It's not my favorite, but it's a happy song.

So, enjoy the video & have a great monday-off thanks to the Pres Day :D

I have to write this concert report thing for my Jazz history class. In order to make the report happen, I need to attend a live jazz concert this week. The nice thing about this assignment is that I have an legit excuse to skip a homework night, and get to enjoy a live jazz show. So yesterday I found out Mindi Abair is going to be playing at Jazz Alley in downtown Seattle from thursday to sunday!! I haven been listening to her since 2002. She's my favorite female saxophonist, and now after 7 years I get to see her live. This is amazing! I'm going to the thursday night show since I usually have the least amount of homework on thursday. Ah, this thursday night is gonna be smoothed out!

Give me a shout if you wanna join me :)