exchange one language for another

the short bio in La Joueuse de go says that "Shan Sa [...] quitte la Chine pour Paris en 1990 et le chinois pour la langue française." it's an incredibly monolingualist formulation and very typically French - as if it really is not possible to speak more than one language, as if you have to choose one, and only one.

daylight moon

i prefer grey overcast skies, but one good thing about clear sunny days is that there's a chance to see the moon. i've started to miss the daylight moon over the winter. lately it's been sunny so i've been trying to look for the moon but i haven't seen it :(

daylight moon is one of my absolute favourite things, especially when it's not a perfect disk. seeing the moon in a blue sky really makes me realise that i live on an orb in space, orbited by another orb. it makes me feel kind of sci-fi.