To round out this really terrible day, we were in tow of my all but lost adviser as he shuffled us around Shenzhen according to a plan that were not privy to. After setting our unknowingly unemployed South African friend up in her sham apartment, we doubled back to meet up with Cockney Guy. He […]
Again, I woke up before six. Again I headed out to Pingshan with no promise of anything fruitful coming out of it. I came armed with a book of pronunciations and a full shirt and tie, with a cup of coffee as my guide. I was on my own and needed to take the hour […]
So I don’t die in Hong Kong, I find my adviser, meet people just like me, realize that we’re going to make it through with the power of friendship, happily Chinese ever after, right? Well, in the short time that I’ve been out here, we expats (cool name for western foreigners) have a saying for […]
I’ve been lost before. Anyone who has read the past couple installments of this blog probably gets the impression that I have a fair share of emotional lost-ness as well. But geographically, I’ve been lost plenty of times. I’ve even been lost in New York and Philadelphia just as easily as I’ve been lost in […]
Aristotle was considered the godfather of drama two thousand years before Kanye West dropped Yeezus. One of his keystone concepts he uses to explain the hold that drama and comedy have on us is this idea of ‘catharsis’. Many of you probably only know about it in the same way that I did, through rigorous […]
The tea does very little to subside the crushing and all consuming nature of the coffee withdrawal expanding my brain to my skull’s limits. Living out of suitcases is wearing on the third day, and the small room, most of which is taken up by the hard bed, continues to close in on me. Why […]
Yes, yes, and yes, ladies and gentlemen. It is not an advertisement or some other new and odd form of procrastination, I actually have what I think is a publishable prologue. This is the first bit of my novel There Be Dragons(pend.) and I am super excited for my fiction writing to make its first […]
