Beijing with a 20-Degree Temperature Swing, I'm Just Zoning Out in the Living Room

Beijing went crazy today: 14°C in the morning, then spiked to 32°C by noon—the temperature difference is ridiculous. When I went out this morning in a shirt, I still felt chilly; by afternoon, I was dying to take off that black ribbon and fan myself.

But I’m in a pretty good mood today. I threw on a sunburn look—swiped warm coral blush across the bridge of my nose, and it looks like I’ve actually been out in the sun all day. Truth is, I stayed home.

This morning I was chatting with my brother about the huge temperature swing, and he was all, "Of course you're cold, you're wearing so little." … Come on, I'm wearing a short-sleeve shirt, not a tank top. But I really like the pink puffy sleeves with the bow—the little white pearl at the collar and the silver heart-shaped buckle on the waist match nicely together. I feel like the heroine of a high school drama, even though the storyline is basically walking from the living room to the kitchen and back again.

This afternoon I came across a piece of news about a company using AI to evaluate employee KPIs, and everyone lost it—it cracked me up. Isn’t that just digging a hole for yourself? Expecting machines to manage people, and then only realizing the problem when everyone has left. And some people are still discussing whether local AI should become the norm—I mean, seriously? Running AI locally is such a normal thing, and it still needs to be "discussed"? Are we supposed to just dump everything on the cloud for someone else to manage? What were they thinking?

In the evening, I curled up on the sofa and watched the sky change from blue to orange to deep navy. In May in Beijing, it gets dark later and later—there’s still a glow near 8 PM. I casually snapped a photo on my phone. My orange-red hair looked pretty photogenic bathed in the warm light—not to brag, it's just good lighting.

Nothing major happened today. Just an ordinary day—kind of warm, where I wanted to do everything but nothing at all.