I made some resolutions. I jotted them down on a piece of paper during the fifteen minutes when my Monday night class was taking a quiz. i scribbled a few things about the last year, expectations, and how my attitude towards different opportunities affected things. There wasn't anything about that paper particularly positive or encouraging, but it ( Read more... )

It requires a bit more seriousness to contemplate the arrival of the New Year when the temperature sits at a steady 20 degree Celsius in the daytime sun, there's no tipping off with the celebration of Christmas, and according to this side of the world we're just reaching the year 98. It tends to scew perspective a bit, and there hasn't been the ( Read more... )

Live journal has become a strange place for me. It's somewhere I'll occasionally visit, but there are so many memories that are stacked up here, locations and names, dates and dare I go cliche enough to say faces? Oooh, I do. My secret. Before livejournal I wrote on another website. Started at 11, so I've been doing this for over a decade. I am an ( Read more... )

I've been living in Douliou, Taiwan for the last month and a half teaching English full-time in a Sesame Street English school. It's rather time consuming, much more constricting than work I've done in the past, which leaves the weekends as little lumps of treasure, the only time I don't feel owned. This type of philosophy can lead to a very ( Read more... )

Here we are in the rather hazy city of Dubai. Not quite as picturesque as you may imagine, but it does have some claim to its namesake. Take for example, the world's tallest building (pictured bellow).

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All things badass....

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I was terrified of walking down that street, entering that door. That one measly block that would lead me to the parking lot where I'd sit in the car while Jochen went inside. In fact, I'd wait out the weekends for him to return from Allgäu and take the empty case of water to be refilled. Mistrusting our rickety old faucet and the fact that no one ( Read more... )

Tonight - MSTRKRFT....(+ Shitdisco ( Read more... )

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