Pithy thought of the day: is it a sign you are working too much when you type your work password into your home computer?

Long thought of the day: this morning i saw a post from my oldest friend, jenndolari, saying that today is (or possibly yesterday was?) Trans Visibility Day. I'm not entirely sure what that entails because i have next to no interaction ( Read more... )

Straight after i got off the train things were different. Guiyang is a mountain city whose main claim to fame is that it's a major rail hub connecting Kunming to Changsha, and Nanning/Guangzhou/etc to Chongqing. It seems there are a fair few touristy things to do, but it's very much geared toward Chinese tourists ( Read more... )

I am really getting into these restaurant/bars. I have started to recognize what to order and how to get a continuous stream of veges - baby corn, water spinach, mushrooms, bell pepper - while i drink. I have also found out how to spot them - aside from the beer sign out the front (invariably Heineken), they also tend to have elongated red paper ( Read more... )

Tainan has been a bit of a let-down after Kaohsiung. I think it's the main tourist destination in Taiwan (for foodies at least), but to me it just felt like a small American town. And not in the good way. Sure, it has a quaint old train station and a few clusters of old buildings that all the tourists flock to, but between that it's just chain ( Read more... )

This girl will grow up to be an actress. Every word is enunciated. Every emotion laid bare. Reading from a book, playing rhyming games, hamming up the enjoyment of her Austrian Railways ham sandwich.

My brain is not working so well. I have a throat ache. Don't really like it up here in the mountains. Too many trees. Too claustrophobic.


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I went on strike today. It wasn't a full day strike because i wanted to be in the office for a meeting just after lunch, but after that i walked out. Of course, i can work flexible hours and did several hours work last Saturday so was probably due a few hours off anyway, but it's the principle. I made sure everyone knew my reasons, and must admit ( Read more... )

Things are definitely not going well for me emotionally right now. Although it took a weight off my shoulders last month when i resolved to quit work and leave the country, now i am getting hit with the (expected) stress of all the shit you need to do to move. Couple that with my personal outrage and exasperation at what is happening in both ( Read more... )

I just typed up everything i wrote in my notebook while i was on vacation. It's backdated on LiveJournal, not sure where that appears in people's friends feeds, but if you're interested it's there. If there are any "yous" reading this anyway ( Read more... )

After marathoning every season of Project Runway within the space of a few weeks, i decided i needed more gay in my television. Since Ugly Betty ended it's been a wasteland out there. So i started watching RuPaul's Drag Race, and it's completely hilarious. It's made me smile and feel happier than ever about being whatever sort of half-assed woman i ( Read more... )

I mentioned this on Facebook, then realized it was still pissing me off, so it's time to rant. I am fucking sick of men who think that being a trannie means i'm a fucking slut. And not the good kind. Or that because i like girls it's an invitation to try re-educate me or some shit. And these fucking douche-bags are shameless the world over, ( Read more... )