Longtime reader, first time (in a couple years) poster.

A friend recently asked me, when I professed my lack of religion, "What caused this crisis of faith in you?" I had to laugh, because it's really the only part of my life that's not in crisis, right now.

( I have decided to be the fragile one everyone tiptoes around )

The Muslim world is in the midst of revolution and I'm sitting at a bar in the middle of the largest Muslim country in the world (by population) watching CNN tell me about it. I'd like to tell you that I'm not freaked out about it, but my actions do not prove one way or the other. I'm going to get drunk, wake up, and write reports. Then I'm ( Read more... )

Hope you're all enjoying your X-Mases and stuff. I'm listening to Indonesian pop music (I think it's a Lady Gaga song but since I don't understand the words, I'm not offended by the banality) and drinking water in preparation for another trip to the jungle. This work is fun and challenging, so you forget that you're in a country that generally ( Read more... )

I should just go ahead and accept the fact that I am lactose intolerant and should not eat pizza, but there was a documentary on about marijuana legalization on the History Channel and I totally got sympathetic munchies and called Pizza Hut. On the positive side, watching Home Movies and farting sort of go together.

I'm banned on posting on ginky's journal. Sorry for whatever I did, Amy.

Also, I tend to make my points known in a very melodramatic way, these days. Maybe I did it in the past, too.

I am feeling very unsettled. It's not like I have ever been settled, so maybe I am missing that feeling of having a "home."
I don't like it, right now.

Screw you guys. All my livejournal posts will be cross-posted to twitter and facebook. And vice-versa. I will make an endless feedback loop of crossposting that will destroy all the social networking EVER!

Okay, not really.