I’ve walked these streets before

Last week was so busy that I skipped writing a weekly update here. I figured it’d be better if I wrote an ad-hoc update1. I’m writing this in a hotel room on Long Island, New York. It’s 5:00 AM. This is my first time experiencing jet lag. I can see why people are not fans of it. Yesterday was the first time I’d spent more than 4 hours on a plane. But it was much better than I anticipated. I finished Zamyatin’s book We and watched two movies: Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day (2026) and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011). It was a good opportunity to watch these; I wouldn’t have picked these movies to watch if I hadn’t been stuck on a plane with 10 hours to kill. The first hour of Disclosure Day was so captivating; unfortunately, after that it became kinda boring. Sucker Punch, on the other hand, was really fun to watch, if heartbreaking. Anyway, after we landed and went through customs to enter the USA, we took an Uber to Long Island and checked into our hotel. We didn’t plan too much…