Tag: issues

making sense of 2012

Making sense of 2012.

I now realize that the vitamin I just took was intended to be dissolved in liquid prior to consumption. I was wondering why 1) it tasted so awful when vitamins are generally innocuous; 2) my mouth started foaming as I chewed it. Hopefully this disgusting vitamin coupled with the week of rest I have had can bring me back to health so I don’t close this year out being physically and mentally ill. Yes, amazingly, 2012 is coming to a close already though it seems like it just began, bright and full of potential. I have accomplished a lot this year personally and I think putting some milestones down will help distill any sense in my mind that this year was an absolute disaster. Though each item contains its own subset of comedies I am going to be brief for…

back in Texas

…I still don’t entirely know how I feel about it (not really an unfamiliar situation) but apparently I’m back in Texas. I can tell this by the surprised smiles and hugs from friends and people I haven’t seen in a while, by the lack of tropical plants everywhere and by the fact I feel obligated to look for a job. The word indefinite, as in “I’m going to travel in Asia indefinitely,” was something I thought I’d…

oops…

A series of blunders has caught up with me, leaving me temporarily stuck in Bangkok waiting for something to arrive from my homeland, from good old US soil.  The item was possibly the worst item to possibly lose besides my passport. I lost my Charles Schwab debit card. The Schwab card is absolutely badass for people who are traveling internationally because Schwab reimburses cardholders for all international ATM fees. I’ll let you all know I’m…

sweat and disagreement

Right now I’m sitting alone in a small coffee shop in a city called Chiang Mai. It’s somewhat of a sleepy town, filled with cafés and restaurants. I would love this kind of place. Unfortunately, I’m in an incredibly impatient…

pre-Bangkok paranoia

Bangkok customs line for the reticent.

Andrew and I arrived in Bangkok this morning at 05:30. There was some slight concern as to what our experience entering Bangkok would be like due to an interesting interaction I had with an airline employee. Don’t worry, it didn’t…