In 2002, I spent eight weeks living in Chungli City, Taiwan. My most vivid memories are of the heat, the sudden downpours, the bugs, the nuns, and my housemate Gaew. It was a summer full of new experiences, so I drew a firm line about the new things I was not trying. [...]
Archive for May, 2007
red beans rock
Posted in food on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
protesting analysis
Posted in NYC, journal on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The mission to the United Nations from Mynamar (aka Burma) is on 77th Street, two doors down from Mongolia’s and two blocks south of Iraq’s. Today, as I ran past, there were about ten people staging a protest to in support of freeing political prisoners of the country. It was very noble of [...]
fiction: back to ok
Posted in fiction on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I stare at my maroon adidas bag to avoid the stares of others. I remind myself how much I love my new black sneakers and how normal my jeans are. I am wearing my favorite shirt, white linen with a few blue and white seed beads along the top. I try not [...]
population density
Posted in future plans on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know what 104,000 people look like, I’ve been in Ohio Stadium when we’ve played Michigan. I know what 104 people look like from the day I addressed my fellow high school graduates. Even with a strong mathematical understanding of order of magnitude and the dramatic increases made when you multiply something by [...]
need for speed, need for stop
Posted in journal on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Public transportation is a wonderful thing — effeceint, environmentally responsible, and affordable. My pedestrian existence in the city generally makes me really happy. That is, until I remember how great it feels to drive.
Today I took the powerboat out for its first spin of the summer. Perched above the windshield and flying down the lake, [...]
we’re home
Posted in friends, journal on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I do nothing with my roommate except sleep simultaneously in our respective separate bedrooms. Socially speaking, I live alone. I have been very careful to avoid getting “live-alone” sydrome where you talk in great excess about nothing because you are so rarely given a chanage to have conversations. This weekend I have [...]
“la revolucion esta en fuego”
Posted in snapshot on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The dawn comes blue but hazy. I remove my sunglasses and wipe them repeatedly on my shirt. Only as I reach a hole in the skyline does the rising sun illuminate the particles of pollutants suspended in the air. A soft breeze flicks the dangling flags and adds a shimmer to [...]
who’s afraid of whole foods?
Posted in journal on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight eight extra special eighth grade girls (including the two I would adopt) came to Manhattan with The Trifecta. We’d planned to take them to Simply Pasta on 41st Street, but we hadn’t bothered to make a reservation and they were booked. As an alternative, we took them to Whole Foods for a [...]
be ware the never
Posted in journal on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eight months ago, I swore that I would never speak to one of my friends again. The event that prompted this decision seemed to be the last time we would be in such close proximity, so though it was in some ways juvenille, it was equally rational since we would never have to see [...]
dry cleaning – a tribute to great service
Posted in NYC on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After factoring the cost of “maintenance”, I almost never buy clothes that are to be dry cleaned only unless they are very much on sale or truly fabulous. Hence, I go to the dry cleaners very infrequently, but I have somehow managed to become a regular at the little cleaners down the street. [...]
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