It has been a hot minute ( Read more... )

Naturally, America has felt pretty peculiar since I returned. Especially having eaten at PF Chang's last night (which, while delicious, was nothing like what I ate abroad. Big surprise!) I have really appreciated having the past week to turn over my thoughts from when I was in Asia. The insightful conversations that I had with many students at ( Read more... )

Beijing! Wow ( Read more... )

At this point, I really just want to go to Beijing. Today, I have written five single-spaced Word pages full of letters to email out. I suppose that I have taken a great deal of trade classes at this point-the finance material was at least somewhat new. For the second half of class, perhaps I will work on my final papers for the course. I need to ( Read more... )

I have a love-hate relationship with China, I think ( Read more... )

The world has been moving pretty quickly, lately.

When my plane to Tokyo from Manhattan flew over Alaska, I was half-conscious, and I could have sworn that I was observing the world’s biggest oil pastel painting.  I dreamt about that possibility for several hours, in fact. This was amidst what has been perhaps single-handedly my longest time in ( Read more... )

While the last week or so has involved a lot of personal development, the assertion that I made regarding feeling relaxed in a recent post was completely and totally... due to the acupuncture treatment. Whoops!

I could imagine being decadent and lush and utterly addicted to alternative medicine.

I need to work on doing things for myself. Perpetuating ( Read more... )

Thoughts I had during tonight's Politics and Prose open mic, not quite formulated yet, enjoying feeling them out and twisting them around:

If dreams migrate,

there is a museum of feathers
in that wisdom tooth and that is the real reason
why your doctors are taking it out. The insects
of their anxious fingers pry apart sprays
of raw tissue, bare ( Read more... )

What an odd time, lately!

I have had a remarkable array of life-changing experiences in the past several weeks, and have not turned the stones in my palms quite sufficiently enough. The aesthetics of the experiences that I had in New York weekend before last were just... incredible, and I really need to explore them. The textures of that McQueen ( Read more... )

'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' in 3D was perhaps one of the most bizarre films that I have ever seen.

Alexander McQueen's show at the Met was perhaps one of the most bizarre museum exhibits that I have ever seen.

'Sleep No More' was perhaps one of the most bizarre theatrical productions that I have ever seen.

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