http://www.rah-kun.net A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:54:54 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1082 So here I am, finally in China. Sounds like a strange sentiment for someone who’s been living in the country for, already, the better part of a year, but it’s finally happened, along with much else since my last post. The last stretch of my employment at Aston were a bit of a rush. The last [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/so-here-i-am/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/xiangfan-is-smelly-so-am-i/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/xiangfan-is-smelly-so-am-i/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:38 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1080 I get listless at the end of things. I enter into a state of fugue a little earlier than I’d wish for, otherwise. I find myself with an overriding sense of there being little point to starting new projects on account of time or logistics; as far as I can see, I’ll just be packing [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/xiangfan-is-smelly-so-am-i/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/digesting/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/digesting/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:50:45 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1077 Just got back from something that was simultaneously the coolest and coldest things I’ve ever done – Spring Festival out in the boonies, a few hours outside of Xiangfan. During one of the coldest weeks of the season thus far. There’s a lot to digest – both literally and figuratively – though I will say this: [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/digesting/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:15 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/ Ain’t never been so drunk that I’ve neededt ohug a toilet, but rigt now, I’m higging a toilet. rock on sprong festival is nutty. Editor’s Comments (For ye who can’t speak drunk, that’s “Ain’t never been so drunk that I’ve needed to hug a toilet, but right now, I’m hugging a toilet. Rock on. Spring Festival is nutty.) And right [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/drunk/feed/ 11 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1068 It’s been a bit difficult to fire off entries lately, or at all, really. Things happen so fast here – on a daily basis, for the most part – that stopping to ruminate upon just one thing means I’m probably simultaneously leaving out three or four other things I could be writing about, or I’m [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:01:28 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1066 But it’s okay, I only have a short update. Today, for dinner (a second dinner, mind you), I managed to accidentally eat an eyeball, and I tried both frog legs (they were good) and turtle (there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed). I maintain, though, I don’t like to eat things that look like themselves. Frog [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/my-english-has-degraded-so-far-as-to-disavail-me-of-decent-title-puns/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:22:14 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1064 Augh… something is seriously not okay with my insides. Something that started off feeling like indigestion and turned, very rapidly, into traveler’s stomach hit me hard on Sunday night after a very long, bad weekend. I slept it off through Monday and Tuesday and it was just about getting back to normal, when suddenly, this [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/a-bad-time/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/looking-ahead/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/looking-ahead/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:59:34 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1061 Mein gott – two posts in a day? It’s ’bout that time… my daily routine (the one that sorta makes it difficult to write on account of every day looking kinda like the day that came before) is starting to break up a bit. Now I spend afternoons pouring over travel sites, looking for stuff to [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/looking-ahead/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:35:32 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1056 Last week was a particularly trying time: stressful, tiring, annoying, expensive, and long. My brain and presence of mind being what it is, I’ll see what I can do to piece together the events of the last week for your reading pleasure… …the first thing that comes to mind is the big hassle that was my endeavors [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:01:49 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1052 “You are a waste of beautiful things.” The best mixed compliment I’ve received in my life. My big eyes, long eyelashes, and long, thick hair are a constant source of annoyance to my many female coworkers. When I have to retie my hair at work, the girls make big, annoyed sighs and stamp about* because my [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/moments-of-zen/feed/ 8