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oyceter

Many random thoughts

Jun 22, 2003 04:39

Woohoo! I'm home! I'm in the Taipei apartment right now sweating profusely. I always forget how hot and humid Taiwan is. It feels like one is actually wading through the air. Personally, I think air should be one of those things people don't really think about. When I have to think about air, it's almost always a bad thing: asthma attacks, coughing ( Read more... )

a: jones diana wynne, things of doom, a: leguin ursula, a: wrede patricia, books: ya/children's, a: marillier juliet, a: adams douglas, books, books: fantasy

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wow... angeyja June 22 2003, 06:55:07 UTC

...making up for lost LJ time ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 22 2003, 07:06:13 UTC

Very much making up for lost time! I missed my LJ greatly.

You have a garden? That's wonderful! I desperately want to learn how to garden so I can have a glorious rose garden (I read Rose Daughter one too many times). They're also so cheerful... What do you grow?

I'm pretty bad at all nighters myself. Sometimes my reading before bed habit results in a completely screwed up circadian cycle, in which I sleep at 5 in the morning and wake up around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. That's when I tell myself I'm sleeping normally -- for another time zone -_-;;.

Right now my schedule is about three weeks in Taiwan doing absolutely nothing. Then I fly back to California, hopefully with a job offer in hand. If not... keep looking, I guess.

Re: wow... angeyja June 22 2003, 07:33:42 UTC

I do. Roses! and a few other things as bit players. So far I'm growing: Falstaff, Sombreuil, Gertrude Jeykyll, Aloha, Autumn Sunset, a mysterious striped rose that smells of baby powder (my rose source has some labelling issues since it's definitely not the cabbage rose I thought I bought), Gloire de Dijon, Don Juan, Iceberg, Fantin Latour, Abraham Darby, Stanwell perpetual, Konigen Denmark, Therese Bugnet, Polka, Heather Austin, Mrs John laing, Blanc de Courbet, Belle Pointevine, Sally Holmes, City of York, Snow owl, Tamora, Margo Koster, Westmoreland, Heritage, Madam Hardy and my favorite Zephirin Drouin. There's a few more but I'm blanking on the names. Whoosh! I've focussed in Old Roses but if its a good one that's newer like some of the Austins or Aloha, I'm game... but they must be fairly low maintenance and highly scented ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 22 2003, 21:24:24 UTC

Wow... so much rose information =). I will definitely have to keep this in hand until I manage to find a living space with a garden. How much time does it take to take care of your garden?

Sigh.. the job search is pretty nasty right now. No one seems to be hiring, plus, most people aren't looking for recent graduates who study East Asia for some reason. And I've heard statistics that say that only 30% of the graduating class this year have come out of college with job offers. Yikes.

In California right now mostly because of the weather! After four years of the east coast, I've decided that the entire cold snow thing is very not for me. Plus, my family's been vacationing in California for a while now, so we know the area, and there are quite a few family friends there that moved there from Taiwan.

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