Hits and misses (2)
More thoughts on staying and going. Hits (as in, coolness) Fireworks! Fireworks umm…and fireworks. Misses (as in, stuff I miss) Having real speakers instead of laptop ones Having a non-itchy nose (Is it the detergent? The AC? The office? Who knows…) But back to the fireworks! Sumida river’s fireworks festival/hanabi taikai (literally, fire flower big […]
Lying is a life skill
I’ve found that I’m really good at convincing other people, when I’ve actually fooled myself first. And in the same way that you can magically ignore text messages when you know who they’re from and don’t care, you can amazingly ignore (and hence convince yourself) of surprisingly interesting things. Say, hypothetically, one is leaving a […]
Summer sleep
…is always a little disturbed. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the fan that you left on because of the heat. Maybe it’s weird karma floating around from last week’s solar eclipse. Whatever it was, I had a really weird, really distinct dream last night. Â It all had the feel of a happy Ray Bradbury […]