Hello friends, I'm in China, trekking through the Northwest, flying South, and looping back to Beijing via Guilin and Shanghai. I am currently in Urumqi. I am updating my travels on xanga (www.xanga.com/staratdusk) so please check there for my logs.

Musings on Love, Part I:


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I am going to Midsummer Night's Swing at the Lincoln Center tonight. After seeing that they're charging $5.50 a ticket to order them online, I went to the box office during my lunch break yesterday and checked out the setup. It's beautiful--they've used part of the fountain in the plaza as the boundary of the dance floor, with a big stage for the ( Read more... )

2004: Year in Review ( Read more... )

The trick to dreamless sleep is to make oneself so tired that one does not have the energy to have dreams, and then wake up so early that you are not clear between when the dream ends and life starts ( Read more... )

I'm a little annoyed this morning because for two mornings in a row I've inexplicably woken up before 7AM. This does not mean I spring enthusiastically into a desired mode of productivity and chipperness that I so detest in the so-called (degenerate! abnormal!) "morning people ( Read more... )

Awesome. I just cranked out a pretty damn good grad school essay, and made pretty major improvements on the other two I'd been working on ( Read more... )

An intellectual whore's wet dream come true ( Read more... )

It's sad, but I've just made a decision not to finish my NaNoWriMo project. It's nice enough to know that I still had it in me to write creatively and at length, and it would have been REALLY nice to actually have completed it, but this week is the week I am going to have to churn out those polished, perfect graduate school essays, and the first ( Read more... )

10,113 words.

A daunting realization: I like doing this. I can even write things I like, even without the ever treacherous self-edit that is so familiar to me by now.

Uh oh.


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