Question: What is a geoduck?

Answer:

1. a. (as seen on the streets of Hong Kong by yours truly)


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I have pictures! of my decorated apartment!


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True to my word, I've been cooking up a storm in my awesome new kitchen (my first ever!).

Tonight's Dinner Menu

Mango salad with fresh basil and blueberries

Tomato and basil pasta tossed with balsamic vinegar
Freshly-baked sourdough bread

Mango & kiwi smoothie


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Well, this was a nifty way to end the evening:


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I have an apartment

I HAVE THE COOLEST APARTMENT EVER


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HK magazine, where I started my apartment search today, contains this uncannily accurate horoscope from the week I arrived in Hong Kong:

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ideally, you wouldn’t even be reading this. You’d be white-water rafting along the Franklin River in Tasmania, or riding on “the train at the end of the world” in Tierra del Fuego, or ( Read more... )

Vignettes? OH MAN DO I HAVE VIGNETTES FOR YOU.

So last night I'm walking around Lan Kwai Fong, the nifty bar-and-outdoor-restaurant area of Hong Kong. Cuisines available within a one-block radius: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Italian, American, Mexican, plus a smattering of Irish pubs.

My mind, it is blown.

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Intense. Magical. Otherworldly ( Read more... )

Downtown Gwangju this afternoon:


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In the past 72 hours:

1. I went whitewater rafting... twice.
2. I did not go bungee jumping.
3. I went on a date. In Korean.

Because apparently that's what happens when you ask two attractive young men for a ride to Seoul, and one of them is single. So when we arrived, we dropped off his friend and then went out to dinner and coffee, which was nice ( Read more... )