Everything balances out one way or the other.

I had a rather rough day last week. All those tiny little things that could go wrong did go wrong. I still need to buy a new Kindle but at least I finally have my plane ticket home for winter sorted out.

Today made up for that day, I think. Everything worked out quite well and even though I was alone ( Read more... )

This weekend went by in a blur:

Work at my lovely little bar on Friday night, up early for yoga, brunch with my housemate, ran some errands, dinner with my former GP coworker and off to Baltimore for E-schock.

And boy, that was an interesting night. There was a furry party going on upstairs in the gay club and they came down to our dance floor and ( Read more... )

This Cracked article got me thinking about skill sets. What can I do that is (potentially) interesting? What kind of skill(s) do I have? What might I want to do?

• I can speak conversation-level Japanese.
  (I'm losing this skill slowly but surely as I no longer have anyone to speak Japanese to and while I wouldn't mind going back to Japan I don't ( Read more... )

I just finished my meal which involved warm Russian black bread, British Cotswold cheese full of chives and spring onions, lettuce, and tomatoes. Super simple but ultimately quite satisfying. Dessert is a white peach that got semi-smushed on the walk home from Whole Foods.
My tummy is happy.
Besides that I'm not sure I've got much to report. I saw ( Read more... )

Have I really been in Washington D.C. for a year now?! How has it been so long since I've returned from Australia?! Have I really been back in the U.S. this long?! It kind of makes me want to cry; I really want to leave the country again! My finances say otherwise for the time but it will happen again; I will make it happen again!

All I have to do ( Read more... )

I went camping for two nights over the weekend with my family - father, uncle, brother, brother's wife, and 14 mo. old nephew - near Lake Hemet on the way up to Idyllwild which was a nice change from this bloody desert. It was full of huge pine trees and actually got cold at night; a nice change from down at the desert floor up in the mountains. I ( Read more... )

Woke up early today and decided to go to a "Somachi" yoga class which seemed to be some sort of ashtanga-vinyasana-flow class that just kicked my ass!! Non stop flowing sequences with down dog being the rest time, rather than child's pose. I'm so tired now and I know tomorrow I'll be all sore and stiff.... but you know, it was awesome!! I haven't ( Read more... )

Amanda Fucking Palmer was a-fucking-mazing!!!! Top notch high-energy super-fun show with some random guest apperances from a famous Aussie dude named Paul Kelly among other famous people that I didn't know (UPDATE - Mick Harvey, ex-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). Haha. And all these other wonderful band people and a string quartet and yeah. Really ( Read more... )

Yoga does not cure all ails when you're having another rough week but it definitely helps. I'll have to remember this for next time...

Imagine that? I've been in Australia for almost a month now...
Thoughts so far:

• I hate winter. I'm excited about the prospect of spring soon, now that we're finally getting up from the 40's and 50's to a much happier 61 degrees F today. Yay. Weird to think about Christmas summer vacation though... Christmas dinner = shrimp on the barbie?!! Maybe.
  
  
• I' ( Read more... )