I finally woke up and faced my first Delhi day at sunset- dragged Boyan out the door and up and down Main Bazaar in Paharganj in search of the elusive Kitchen Cafe, where I sit now, 4 stories on a rooftop terrace above the madness of the streets below. Leaning over the cement railing, I have a bird's eye view of the bizarre traffic patterns at a ( Read more... )

Back in safe and sweet Thailand now.. I didn't want to leave so soon, but Songkran (Thai New Year, and Cambodian New Year) was starting, and I wanted to get back for some serious drunken water fighting. The boy and I spent today hitching rides on backs of trucks with garbage cans full of water, where the passengers fill buckets to throw at anyone ( Read more... )

why? well, here in the middle of the universe, there's a crazy party feeding jungle monkeys and when will they stop eating ( Read more... )

I had been sinking down, down- all sorts of catastrophe and disappointment have been piling higher and higher this evening, and I've been trying to be supportive and to look on the bright side and- hey at least no one's dead right- and then I read about my violin teacher's husband who died a few days ago and I just crack- so much sorrow- but ( Read more... )

Bruce's CD "Controlled Burn" is finally out! It's a combination of bluegrass, Cash-style-country, and folk tunes. I'm pretty impressed with the final result- I'm listening to it for the first time now. I'm only on 3 tracks out of 12- but he managed to get Pierre Schryer to record on a few of my usual tunes, so I guess I can't blame him :P I ( Read more... )

Apple picking in a cowboy town.. for a full week I couldn't see the sky: thick smoke hung in the air like fog. Only the red sun and that full, harvest moon shone through the haze. Yesterday as the sun came up and the raging winds died out, the ghost mountains sharpened against the sky and it was blue once more ( Read more... )

Yep, I got a ride with a Bulgarian trucker from Brandon to Calgary yesterday- never expected travelling with a Bulgarian boy to be so useful! He was stuck chatting for 12 hours while I slept in the back ( Read more... )

2 weeks later, my wrists are fucked and I've submitted a 6-page complaint against my asshole boss..

I need a job. Now. Any suggestions?

ARHRHAHRRR! It seems that my ride to Nakina has left without me and Boyan. Now I'm trying to scramble for a ride.. I need to be there on Sunday May 14th at 8am at the latest, but I can leave any time between tonight and Saturday. If anyone is going that way, I would be eternally grateful for a ride ( Read more... )

My favourite thing about wireless internet is that I can update livejournal while sitting on the toilet. That's the way it should be.