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Living Lives of Quiet Domestication
Here in Portland I live alone. I was lucky to find the small one bedroom apartment when I first arrived, with its newly redone bathroom and nice hardwood floors. It was a far cry from the slight confines of my tent and backpack. I put in a token effort to find someplace else, with a lower rent or closer to where I might end up ( Read more... ) -
Class time 1
This was my first week of classes ( Read more... ) -
Maslow's Hierarchy
One of the hardest things about coming back here to Portland, and to this life in general, is how much the life that I had been living here wasn’t really a life as me, as “Adam”. I had traveled to a new place and gotten to know new people and through that process, through learning about others and them learning about me, I reevaluated who I was as ( Read more... ) -
Reinventing yourself at 28
A little less than a month ago, I returned to America after spending two and a half months working in South Africa. It was without a doubt the happiest two and a half months of my life, bar none. I was immersed in a lifestyle I had thought I’d left far behind me, the constantly questioning curiosity of science. It had been over half a decade ( Read more... ) -
Cape Town, Day 1
I left Maine on Saturday September 7th, early in the morning. I’d spent a week with my family up in Bethel , but I was ready to begin this next adventure. It’d been too long since I’d left the country, hell, it’d been too long since I’d left the state. I wasn’t looking forward to the long day of travel ahead of me but it would be worth it once ( Read more... ) -
Sunday 4
For the first two months here in Portland I was technically homeless. I bounced between couches and air mattresses at different friends’ apartments until I was finally able to move into my own place. For the first month or so I hunted for apartments within my price range. Scouring Craigslist, realtors and other possible land lords, ( Read more... ) -
Sunday 3
This past Saturday I skyped my good friend Bryan. He’s living in Tokyo, working for a company there and about to get married to his longtime girlfriend. I was actually around him when he met her for the first time and I’m glad they’ve decided to finally get hitched. It was a great time, catching up with him, but also a bit somber as ( Read more... ) -
Sunday 2
The summer before I left for Japan, Chris and I came up with a harebrained scheme to brew mead. I went to a local homebrew store, bought a small set of equipment, and that summer Chris’s apartment smelled like honey for a month and a half while the batch fermented. The finished product was drinkable, just, but we enjoyed the accomplishment and ( Read more... ) -
Sunday 1
Happy New Year ( Read more... ) -
October 24th 2010
My, how the time does fly ( Read more... )