This may or may not be my last post in the space. I have not decided yet. If so, there will be a fresh, new landscape to occupy instead. If not, I will be an occasional poster who mostly uses LJ to lurk ( Read more... )

I want to integrate ( Read more... )

As I write this post I am standing. It's day 1 of using my brand new "standing workstation". I've got my lap top sitting on some sort of textured foam board lap-thingy, which is on top of a sturdy box, on top of the biggest illustrated coffee table Bible ever printed. Yea, it's ghetto, but it will due for now since it's stable ( Read more... )

During my last year at New College, I had an 84 year-old mentor, a Hungarian born archaeologist who happened to live in Sarasota. He was the only foreigner in the world with permission to lead excavations in China. At first, he was someone I interviewed for my thesis. But a connection formed, and soon I was making a video documentary about his life ( Read more... )

Time for a totally expected holiday-themed post ( Read more... )

Some pairings are toxic. No matter how long you hang in there, the poison between you and the other doesn't really go away. It festers and bubbles and eventually brings out the absolute worst in you. And it likely brings out the worst in the other person too. It's mutual.

Self-induced drama, ceaseless complaining, and constant lashing out for ( Read more... )

Man, was it fantastic to get home just in time for Halloween. It was my first American Halloween since 2007, and it was pretty ace. Makes me sad to think that NZ just doesn't care for the holiday at all. I had heaps of fun. We did Halloween Horror Nights over the weekend and spent the actual 31st carving pumpkins and watching scary movies :)


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I´ve never been trapped in a foreign country before. It´s a surreal feeling--one moment, teetering on the edge of madness and despair, the next moment, stretched out in the sun sipping on beer or coffee ( Read more... )

I crave quiet. I need to be away from TVs blaring useless news, the hum of the air conditioners and computers, the daily squabble, the shrill ring of the telephone ( Read more... )

In that other time--that other life ( Read more... )