Last week Sunday morning i headed out to the corner of town where my European colleagues are housed up while they are in Taipei. I met up with J from Slovakia, who was one of the first to arrive. He was unprepared for the heat, humidity and torrential downpour that ensued over the next couple hours, but we did have a nice coffee and - more ( Read more... )

This week has been less than optimal. There's the usual work stuff, okay, but outside of that my mind has gone off on one of its spirals, the kind of spiral i haven't been on since the Finding Clothes For An Ogre Debacle of April 2024 ( Read more... )

I am still in the funk that i got into when i posted about clothes, and i know i should not have done that, because clothes continue to be one of the things that send me on massive anxiety spirals. You'd think twentysomething years later i would have gotten over it, but no, i have not. I fucking hate buying clothes, i hate that i can never, ever ( Read more... )

...and now i am continuing to procrastinate ( Read more... )

The past few days have seen my mood swing to degrees i haven't experienced since the bad old days of early bipolar disorder. But, in this case, it was almost all external factors triggering the instability ( Read more... )

I was going to do a picture post of my weekend up the river, but i'm currently sitting in a house with my nerves shot to shit thanks to a job i took that will save me about a grand in accommodation costs ( Read more... )

Today i cracked. What's it been? Five days out of quarantine? Sounds about right ( Read more... )

Something i have been trying to write about for a while but never found the space is this issue of net worth and class ( Read more... )

Did I tell y'all I am going to London next week? I am going to London next week. For three nights. And then I am flying back ( Read more... )

Dear lord, i woke up to something nightmarish. It was not a declaration of war, or a natural disaster, or even just a cockroach crawling over my naked body (happened last week, welcome to the sub-tropics)... it was a picture of a school uniform posted by benicek. Which, actually, was a charming picture. But somebody made an idle comment that "wouldn't it ( Read more... )