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it's been awhile. things, to my infinite surprise, are good. i'm settled in one place for awhile. i work somewhere pleasant where i get to design and draw. i sleep an adequate (?) amount and eat well. that's where i am. where are you ( Read more... )

i hate how often its either nothing or its an epic battle with one's neurosis. i've been living more and more in my head lately which is a particularly dangerous place to be, what with the frequent explosions and all.

last night i was walking through the taipei main train station when a man tripped in front of me, dropping a large stick he was carrying. my first impulse was to help him up, but he righted himself quickly, grabbed the stick, and then took off running like a madman. confused, i turned around, just in time to see him run up to another man from ( Read more... )

watching donnie darko: extended directors cut before bed made me stay awake all night tacitly terrified that a confusingly scary 6-foot rabbit named frank would appear to me out of the darkness, foretelling my plot-hole-replete death. i tell you, it's a completely legitimate fear ( Read more... )

every so often it happens that you feel this way. like a balloon whose string has been snipped against a lazy lazy sky.

so it's come down to this: a plane ticket, too many farewells, and a girl who still hasn't learned how to say goodbye. tomorrow i leave japan after a crazy, tumultous, but in many ways wonderful year. i have too many things to say and literally no time to say them.

the moment i love best in a day is that small window of dusk time, when the sky gradually fades into the colour of an almost bruise, and pale pink glows on the horizon are the only signs of human life, far away human life. everything tastes like summer, the thick smell of rice stalks growing haphazard in the mud and the thick, thick earth. in ( Read more... )