I'm sitting at an internet cafe in Vientiane right now. It is 5:00 in the evening. I must say that I begrudged the fact that I had to come here to Laos to get a work visa for Thailand. I was hoping to go to Hong Kong to visit Dominic or Singapore to... see Singapore? In the nine hours I've been here, though (five of which I spent sleeping), ( Read more... )

Sometimes life takes weird turns. The kind of turns that make you stop and ask yourself questions. Questions like, "How did I wind up on the porch of this Rococo mini-mansion on the outskirts of the city at 2 in the morning?" "Who is this handsome devil who invited me over to his house?" and "Why can't I stop smiling ( Read more... )

A google image search on "release the hounds" yielded the following funny results:


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Moment number seven quabillion in which I have put my hands on my hips, approvingly surveyed the land, and said to myself, "yup. i live here,": today's purchase of a cell phone. I have acquired my first trapping of permanence, and damn it feels cool ( Read more... )

...or at least such is the impression I get from the oppressive heat, smog, and food. I suppose the food isn't actually oppressive, it's taste power is just so high that if I were an enemy of food, or perhaps a subject of food (in the feudalism sense), it indeed would be oppressive ( Read more... )

Ticket = Bought ( Read more... )

6:15 in the morning and for no reason I am still awake, sitting at All City Coffee, because at 5:45 I decided there was no way I would sleep enough to make sleep worth it and tore the covers angrily from myself, not sure what I was mad at. Rosemary sleeps peacefully upstairs in my bed ( Read more... )

I don't care how old I am. One is never to old to cheer:

I had sex at Gramita and Papa's house! ya ya ya ya!

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