i really quite like it..!
i’m glad i’m here. lots to experience and learn.
postcards coming your way guys. i bought 14 bucks worth of stamps yesterday; the woman at the counter gave me a bewildered look that clearly meant: “crazy tourist.”
happy new year all. i hope those of you looking to work through things find what [...]

i feel that, in spite of certain uncanny similarities, we are such different people, with different outlooks at times. (this is what makes me look to you when i need as rational and objective an opinion as possible, a different perspective — one that won’t be offered with any judgement or censure.)
sometimes i feel that [...]

in manhattan, new york, in the chelsea international hostel paying way too much for internet access..!
this is just a shout out so you guys know i’m safe.
will write more once i get round to finder a cheaper internet place!

phuture is just too small a space to have a drum and bass gig. pretty much as soon as he started his set i had to leave, it was so claustrophobic. some strange guy kept bumping his rear end against mine in the course of his gyrations; whether accidental or intentional i didn’t stay to [...]

nevermind the criticisms of its odd exterior, the theatre and concert spaces are works of engineering genius.
i could sit in the concert hall for hours and never want to leave, it’s so beautiful. and the acoustics..! i was both amused and impressed when roy told us of a conductor who was so blown away by [...]

out late + drinking games resulting in consumption of beer (yuck) - hilarity and stitches as provided by greg’s inability to remember multiples of sevens and numbers containing sevens - saysen the evil-but-still-endearing-siberian-husky-boy’s amusing sabotages (myself a victim) + 2 cigarettes for a person who ordinarily does not smoke + various unresolved issues swimming round [...]

she read it. she found it and she read it.
and then she emailed me to tell me. kate champion emailed me.
this is too bizarre.
what a way to make someone’s day…!

maybe you are under more stress than you choose to express to me.
maybe you are juggling wanting to let it all out and not quite knowing how, beyond ‘heartache’.
i know it will take me a while to come out of this year and know how to better move on.
maybe that monday night was stranger than [...]

i was under the impression that we were just going to observe other people playing, but putting us through the paces of a game was a much better idea. and we couldn’t have had a kinder funnier tour guide than evan.
thanks kat, for setting it up. go the subcultural expeditions!
the highlight of my day had [...]

i just got an email from my ah mai telling me that after years and years and years (ok, 6), jason and may are finally getting married!!!!
arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
now that i’ve jumped up and down and screamed enough i’m going to ring my sis in england and tell her the news!
arghhhhh!!!!!!
weddings must be one of the best [...]