The tarot card reader told me that I was doing everything right, that I'm on the path that I should be on. He also said that this time in my life is a new beginning, a big change. He was right about that ( Read more... )

You may not believe it
But I don't believe in miracles anymore
And when I think about it
I don't believe I ever did for sure
All the things I've said in songs
All the purple prose you bought from me
Reality's just black and white
The sentimental things I'd write
Never meant that much to me

I found an old fortune cookie paper in my wallet, while frantically searching out my receipts for rent. It reads "all personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs." What are these beliefs? Beliefs about existence, other people, the meaning of life? I think for me, the breakthroughs come when I change my beliefs about other people. The ( Read more... )

yesterday I got to witness London's first snow of the season. after the interview at HFEA, I did my traditional thing and wandered around the british museum, which is right around the block. saw the africa exhibit. wandering around London is like nothing else. the day before yesterday I also had to go into the city to meet someone (woke up at ( Read more... )

the old song lyric is true in this case: "I'll be home for Christmas". These last seven months have been some of the hardest, most formative, most stressful, and most rewarding of my life. each field site was like taking on a new life, becoming a new person, for just a short time. How will those new mes fit into the old me? I feel like I have ( Read more... )

I place the red kettle ( Read more... )

Europe is so full of people. So. Many. People. I can't deal. Maybe I'm an undiagnosed claustrophobic.

Things are going ok, just in a bit of a daily grind.

Had coffee with a fellow ethnographer, Tim, today. He can empathize with me on many levels.

I can't believe how much time has passed since May 23. The day I left for Vancouver and my birthday. It's been quite an odyssey, and quite a learning experience. Now I'm in Oxford, UK...the place I dreamed of returning to. But it's the place that I didn't mean to return to. It's interesting to look at my change in perspective since the 2004 ( Read more... )

what a summer. didn't turn out so bad, after all :)

new imogen heap record!