i've arrived in denmark. two days here and i can tell i'm going to like it a lot. the people are nice, though the weather is lacking. luckily i have a good heater in my room. haven't seen a whole lotta blue sky since i arrived, but that's ok cause at least it's not nasty smog that's blocking out the sun ( Read more... )

after hours and hours of rediculousness, i have finally connected to the internet for the first time on my new laptop. praise the cpu gods and all their opposing demons!! of course, now that i'm here typing, there's funky things going on with the keyboard, but yet perhaps no, i get the feeling the (ey)h* hiccups in typing had more to do with my ( Read more... )

finally i have arrived home and to stay, at least for a while. gone from china over three weeks, but just now -- home. i have ten days to get all my shit together before i take off again, this time for denmark, and i'm going to relish in the relaxation after the madness of the last three weeks ( Read more... )

in just 11 days, i will be hours away from finishing my last shift at the shenzhen daily; just hours away from getting on a bus headed to hong kong; and just hours away from the end of this chapter of my travels ( Read more... )

so, if ayn rand has anything to say about it, which she does, about 1,000 pages worth, then china will be collapsing someday soon. this is a short excerpt from a conversation i heard between garrith, the copy editor from new zealand, and one of our chiense page editors. Apparently a bridge near Shenzhen is having problems withstanding the amount ( Read more... )

the last week has been hell at the paper. basically, i'm reading atlas shrugged right now and i'm royally despising all things utterly socialist. don't get me wrong, socialism has its good points, but when i witness firsthand the bad points of socialism in action, i might as well rub my nerve endings raw with fine sandpaper -- it's not coarse ( Read more... )

so, if you read yesterday's entry and you were totally disbelieving, well, ( here's a little something )

I'm in hong kong this weekend to attempt to get more pages put into my passport and film a stunt put on by matt and adrian's group, "international action." in the moment hong kong is treating me all right, though very humid and hot. now it's begun to rain slightly. hopefully that will just cool things off ( Read more... )

ah yes, another day in the office. as i sit, waiting for the first of two lady's semifinal matches to begin at the french open at roland garros, i have decided to write a little bit about the news coverage of today and what we are planning for tomorrow. also, i am checking my email as i wait for a response from the european commission about the ( Read more... )

this is just a test. hopefully, my computer's clock has caught up with my livejournal clock and it will let me update and not tell me that i can't because i'm trying to back date my entry or some junk. all right, test away!!