Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨
@xtinehlee
Author of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER Ecco/Harper Collins | 🐓+🐝💨 | doberman mind, dachshund body | Essay Editor @ The Offing | she/they Christinehlee.com Substack: christinehlee.substack.com IG: @xtinehleewriter Rep: Ayesha Pande
Just saw a job posting looking for writers to help “non traditional” law school applicants write application essays. The job posting title is “fiction writers needed.”
I did a lot of #beekeeping aka bee meditation tho. Sharing my corner of peace with you.
On a trip to Seoul. Feeling relief and regenerating for the fight when return home to the US. watching the No Kings protests from Seoul feels like watching the Seoul protests last year from the US. Inspiring to see everyone out. Here is Seoul Pride 2025. Small in comparison to SF or NYC but mighty!
Fill up gas today. Get your necessities. Tomorrow we don’t use our credit cards.
Okay for those who also went to send a handmade quilt, the call is on IG from shaadeemae www.instagram.com/p/DE28_qwzRE...
This is a throw quilt inspired by bojagi that I made a few years ago. Hand pieced. Hand quilted. No one ever wanted it. I kept it, hoping for the right time to give it as a gift. Now sending it to be an emotional support quilt for someone affected by the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
I made a quilt bc i needed distraction from awaiting test results and the news and…welp, a friend had a baby amidst all this and a quilt is celebration, too!
Everybody going to holiday parties and this is the scene here. Introverts: be jealous. Be very very jealous.
Let’s see you at 21. I don’t have many pictures from 21. It was the year I had my nervous breakdown. But here is one outside my apartment where sometimes a man would be doing drugs in the stairwell and other times a man taking shelter from rain.
Yesterday, a dear friend texted me a picture she took of me in 2017. I’m holding Han Kang’s HUMAN ACTS in my hand.
So I made them. They didn’t really crinkle. They’re okay but Not sure I’ll make them again. My cookies need to be hedonistic.
Then again. This was Pantone color of the year 2024. Peach fuzz.
Pantone color of the year 2025. My opinions are in the alt text.
Yo. Tsunami evacuation order for West Berkeley. Stay east of 7th street. Apparently a tsunami is on its way.
On IG, Pantone plays a a confusing video/reel. They never show one solid color. You wonder if it’s the darker brown or the more golden brown and you wonder too, why it all looks like gonads.
When people ask me to bring a vegetable to Thanksgiving potluck, I bring veggie japchae. I made 20+ servings in my kimchi-making vat.
The product of my rudimentary skills. Wood is walnut. I like the shape. I wanted a deeper spoon. I have other shapes like the one Stanley Tucci used recently in a TikTok it is some HUGE wooden spoon!
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Someone in my bee community went and got some compost and posted this picture. Said they were impressed (it’s also certified; didn’t know compost could be certified). It sure looks beautiful.
One bright piece of news: @theonion.com bought Infowars out of bankruptcy and will turn infowars into a parody of its original self. HAHAHAHAHA YAAAAAAS.
Quote post with a sunset picture you took yourself. Sunset used to be the time of day I got most suicidal during my suicidal days. But now it is simply a beautiful time.