A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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
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 [...]
Ah.. Christmas. In China. Working for privately owned training school. If there’s one thing that didn’t fully dawn on me until it was too late, it was how severely I and the other foreigners here would be used as marketing stooges by the school. There’s really no dignity to be had, and thankfully, as foreigners, [...]
Happy New Year from 13 hours in the future (by the EST reckoning, which I now tend to refer to as the “Shire reckoning” for ha has).
Today has stacked up to be one of the more ironic New Year’s I’ve experienced on record. As some of you may remember, I have made many posts, especially [...]