February 2011
25 posts
January 2011
20 posts
as of today, i’ve been in thailand for a year.
i’m not big on milestones, birthdays, or anniversaries, but the implications of this one are kind of hard to ignore.
in a month i will be 25, an age that even just three years ago seemed otherworldly old. the entirety of my 24th year will have been spent here, in this bizarre and beautiful country and i guess i feel like if i’ve...
eff yeah washington.
and kili, keep on keeping on sunshine.
even out here you can make my days glow.
kilibird:
Dear Sirs,
I would like to ask you for your tourism packet with anything else you can send about the prettiest state in the union in my opinion.
Thank you kindly and sincerely,
Robert
Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds
a song that...
sorting through.
today i miss a lot of things, but most of all, i miss the people important in my life who are now so far away.
for those in seattle, san francisco, san diego. you mean the world to me.
we grow up and we grow apart, i know it. it seems like the only constant in my life these past few years has been putting physical distance between myself and the people i know well.
i’m...
come visit me in nagano, japan next year.
somehow, in my mind, i am able to turn living in a small snowy city in the japanese mountains all alone for a year into something romantic.
it turns out that my mind is stupid.
come visit or face the reality of being an awful friend.
how does he do it? read, and let your heart break as mine does at these words. Flower Herding at Mount Monadnock 1 I can support it no longer. Laughing ruefully at myself For all I claim to have suffered I get up. Damned nightmarer! It is New Hampshire out here, It is nearly the dawn. The song of the whippoorwill stops And the dimension of depth seizes everything. 2 The whistles of a...
job offer.
shiojiri, japan. nagano (yes, the winter olympics nagano) prefecture.
elementary and junior high school.
mountains, snow, hot springs.
current weather is 23 degrees and snowing.
after a year in thailand, i might need to find or a jacket something.
Adele - Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX Remix)
que...
wind moves the branches of these young
rubber trees and dragonflies, their numbers
in the hundreds, stop and start, flit through
the leaves above. a cow made golden in
filtered sun drops her head to the earth
below and takes the grass into her mouth
and bites and chews for a while, the metal
ring in her nose shakes and sounds softly
with the motions of her jaw. does she know
how...
i’m beginning to realize how sad i will be when i begin to pack up my things and leave this place that i’ve made a home out of for the last year.
it’s a strange part of this life that you have the option every year to take everything you’ve accumulated, put it in a bag, put that bag on your back, wave goodbye to everyone and everything you’ve known for a year, and...
sorry.
i’ve been lazy and busy and sick and generally forgetful.
how are you?
i’m well. well, not really. i’m shivering through 80 degree nights and over the past few days the bathroom has become my comfort room of choice. this type of sick can only really be appreciated if you’ve lived or traveled overseas before and if you haven’t experienced it, pray you...
so. about new years.
imagine ten thousand shirtless jacked australians. there were some brits, but not many. mostly australians. mostly shirtless. mostly looking like they liked to pick up lots of heavy things. it’s not that hard, just do it.
imagine them drinking cheap thai booze out of ridiculously colored neon buckets with tiny handles and seven straws a piece.
imagine now these same...
hi. i’m alive. mostly. posts coming tomorrow. turns out islands in the gulf don’t really have Internet. this is probably a good thing.
