Jeez, have I been living in Hong Kong for 4 months already? They say time flies, but I feel like it was only yesterday that I stumbled off the plane (15 hours!) and negotiated my way through the MTR to my new home in Wanchai ( Read more... )

I passed all my comps. I'm off for a European adventure in 6 hours.

So I'm 90% moved in to my new place on Division and Rockwell. I picked a dumb week to move, but I got through unpacking and finals allright. Besides, nobody expected me to get straight-A's this semester anyway ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that the lack of communication from certain parties means I've been broken up with again. It is not my year.

1. Yourself: Oli ( Read more... )

(As you probably know, my mother died unexpectedly last week. As promised, this is what I said at her funeral ( Read more... )

I just got back from a week in New York. Perhaps I should have kept a travel journal, but I didn't so the one person who reads this blog will just have to be content with my reconstruction of events from my credit card receipts and spotty memory ( Read more... )

Now she's got proof...


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Finally, some investments I made are starting to profit. It's nice to not be hemorrhaging money. Of course, now I have to renew my tags/car insurance, plus pay $70 to get my driver's license reinstated*. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If I ever win the lottery, I'll probably crash my car into a museum ( Read more... )

So here I am in New Orleans, I had just finished walking around the French Quarter with my boss and a colleague from Mississippi. My boss got a little drunk, bought me dinner, and told a stripper I was his son. That's how we roll when we go on work trips. When we were in Hawaii, we drunk-dialed Margaret at 2 in the morning. That's exposition, ( Read more... )