I really, really want to see live music when I'm home, but so far Portland is screwing me royally. Yo La Tengo, Built to Spill, Minus the Bear, Iron and Wine, Digitalism, The Decemberists (a fucking 3 night set!!)... these are all band that are playing with a day to a month of our window of time. And what do I get? Motherfuckin' Blues Traveller. ( Read more... )

Did you know that there is a country in the South Pacific called Niue? It's 100 sqaure miles and has a population of about 1,500 people. I mean, seriously, what the fuck is up with that?

I assume the answer to the following question is always, because that's how I want it, but how long will I be stuck in a post-college "what now" crisis? We had probably our one thousandth talk today about what in the fuck we're going to do with ourselves. I hate this feeling, because it's not the case at all, but sometimes I feel like Peace Corps ( Read more... )

So in the 15 minutes between when Abby left for work and when I woke up and got out of bed, someone snuck into our house and stole my ipod. I'm not a gadget guy, but that fucker cost $300 that I couldn't even begin to imagine having right now, and of all the things I own, that is the last thing I would want to lose. Music is my only connection to ( Read more... )

I was reading an article in Newsweek about fucking intelligent design, and now I'm really confused (as a side note, I have no idea why Peace Corps gives us Newsweek. It's all about business and full of ads for rolexes and 18k gold cell phones). The reason I'm confused is because in the article, this guy, who believes in evolution, was saying that ( Read more... )

The Dominican Republic and Belize are our two best fits, program-wise (as in, what jobs we do). Actually, the DR is the best fit of all, because beside matching exactly, they also don't speak any useless indigenous languages there, just Spanish, so we won't have to spend two years learning a language only 25,000 people in the world speak, or ( Read more... )

This just in, I don't have to rely on my semi-ok homemade bbq sauce anymore, someone going back to the US is bringing me a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's! Fuck yeah, life's simple pleasures ( Read more... )

I decided to take a break from alcohol. I like to drink. I don't mean I like to get fucked up, but i like to drink. I love the taste of beer and wine. I like the calming effect a gin and tonic has on my ever-speeding mind and body. Here in the Philippines you combine that with the fact that a bottle of gin/rum/brandy costs a dollar and that there ( Read more... )

Why can't people just be cool? Just be fucking normal everyone. Say what you mean, do what you say and just be a regular person already. God fucking damn it.

If I were from another country and I went to New York, and my only exposure to new york was the internet, here's what I would picture: thousands and thousands of people walking around the city with their $1000 cameras taking nothing but pictures of colorful signs, paving stones with interesting textures and shots of each other doing hip things in ( Read more... )