So I'm back in Beijing, and it will be a while before I'm happy about that. I loved Sichuan. I loved Guizhou. I would love to tell you all, all about it, which I will some day this summer (I will be raving all summer and you will listen to me the same way you let old men tell you about "the war," just out of pity) - so for now let it just be said ( Read more... )

Two days before the trip and I'm sick. OH BOLLOCKS ( Read more... )

TWO LETTERS IN ONE DAY ( Read more... )

LET IT BE KNOWN that I am wearing long underwear ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD SMELL THE CORNER IT SMELLS LIKE CRAP!!!!!!!!

So I'm wearing that ratty black cardigan and listening to Elliot Smith and trying to decide just where the fuck I'm applying to college. Or if I even have the energy to try ( Read more... )

Karli sent me a PACKAGE ( Read more... )

So the BIKE ODYSSEY ( Read more... )

I DON'T WANT TO DO MY ENGLISH!!!
WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH.
oH, MR. HESSLER. YOU BASTARD.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE WRITTEN.

I THINK I OUGHT TO DO IT IN ALLCAPS.

NO, I OUGHT TO WRITE MY ENGLISH.
I WILL WRITE SOME MORE LATER.

I can't find any music for this Chinaplace. All the music on my ipod, even the stuff I burned from Chutney right the day before I left, means Tulsanight and Board Games and Shades of Brown ( Read more... )