http://www.rah-kun.net A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Written at 11:30 PM, May 15th] This is pretty much the earliest I’ve been to bed in… a long time. Let’s just say that I’ve been living a life of excess and sloth these past couple months without a job. Sure, it’s been nice and relaxing, but too much so. I’m bored, listless, wander around my [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/1154/ I’ve got a pretty serious backlog of photos from my phone. They stretch back to the winter and end with a crop of photos of “The General,” a beautiful, white, 4 year old Samoyed I walked around the city (at times, he walked me, to be honest). Here’s a dump. ]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/photo-dump/ It has been a pretty quiet month, punctuated by random instances and occasions. Little to report on other than the occasional party with the girls from work, or my trip to Wuhan to see a friend, or the flood in my apartment last night. Actually, that last one was pretty good. I went to go wash [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/04/all-quiet/ Fire Pits and Mud Bricks from Jayml Mistry on Vimeo. And, as an addendum to the scant list of my daily activities, I do have a shortlist of stuff I’m working on for before I come home. First, and foremost, is the artwork. While I was teaching, through the winter with no indoor heating, I didn’t do [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/as-promised/ Almost a full month since my last update. There’s a good reason for that – life’s pretty relaxed and uneventful lately. My days consist of some variation on the following: Wake up. Shower (must shower). Game/Eat/Draw (in a variety of combinations, configurations, and amounts). Dinner. Game/Draw (mostly game, admittedly). Sleep. It’s utterly slothful and wasteful, I know, but in the seams I [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/