Windfall 3.3
Draughton on the way to the hotel, seeing the city and getting to know Benny
Tag: Travel
Romance, Time, and Other Useless Things
Romance really is what you make it, I suppose. I spent a lot of my life sipping from the romance Kool-aid, and I’ve gotten pretty shitty on it in my time. The stuff is genuinely intoxicating. The idea that we are all part of this universe that is ripe with meaning, and as humans, we […]
Shenzhen Diaries #7? There And Back Again… Again…
Yeah, so I’m not dead. I just really fell of hard writing the blog about this time last year. I went on break to Beijing, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Sorry that I got a little distracted. Then again, it’s not distraction when you come back to school and you don’t continue writing to your […]
The Shenzhen Diaries #6: Little Trouble in Big China (Part 3)
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 […]
The Shenzhen Diaries #5: Little Trouble in Big China (Part 2)
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 […]
The Shenzhen Diaries #4: Little Trouble In Big China (Part 1)
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 […]
The Shenzhen Diaries #3: Why The Fuck Would I Do This To Myself? (Part 3)
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 […]
The Shenzhen Diaries #2: Why The Fuck Would I Do This To Myself? (Part II)
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 Shenzhen Diaries #1: Why The Fuck Would I Do This To Myself? (Part 1)
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 […]
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