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friendship gardens at the end of the world

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i spent a few days visiting portland and san diego. the trip was full of surprises. for instance, i didn’t expect that my two favorite places in portland would be the airport terminal and the portland state university school of business: i didn’t expect that hostel noise and bug bites would limit me to three hours of sleep each night. i didn’t expect to finish intermezzo in one sitting at a bookstore. most of all i didn’t expect that i’d be frantically trying to squeeze work into the space between travel and sleep, around 6am-10am and 7pm-1am most days. somehow i was still able to visit most of the places i'd wanted to visit, i guess through a combination of luck and well-planned logistics funemployment has been very liberating - i love that i can visit other cities, work on my own schedule, go to grocery stores and dance classes in the middle of the day. but i’ve also been incredibly stressed from solo travel and helping my friends launch a new ai non-profit and doing some policy read

i spent a few days visiting portland and san diego. the trip was full of surprises. for instance, i didn’t expect that my two favorite places in portland would be the airport terminal and the portland state university school of business: i didn’t expect that hostel noise and bug bites would limit me to three hours of sleep each night. i didn’t expect to finish intermezzo in one sitting at a bookstore. most of all i didn’t expect that i’d be frantically trying to squeeze work into the space between travel and sleep, around 6am-10am and 7pm-1am most days. somehow i was still able to visit…

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