Artistic Alignment

Posted by Jayml on May 15, 2010 at 9:28 am | Filled Under: Blog, China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 4 comments

[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 [...]

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All quiet…

Posted by Jayml on April 30, 2010 at 11:24 am | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| No comments

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 [...]

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Ah yes, here we are…

Posted by Jayml on March 30, 2010 at 12:56 am | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 6 comments

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 [...]

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So here I am

Posted by Jayml on March 4, 2010 at 11:54 pm | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 2 comments

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 [...]

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Xiangfan is smelly. So am I.

Posted by Jayml on February 23, 2010 at 11:27 am | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 2 comments

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 [...]

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Stream of Conciousness, Endgame Slowboil

Posted by Jayml on February 5, 2010 at 10:51 pm | Filled Under: Blog, China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 1 comment

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 [...]

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December, Teaching and Looking Ahead

Posted by Jayml on December 2, 2009 at 11:04 pm | Filled Under: Blog, China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 3 comments

Teaching. It’s… not me. I’ve thought about it for a bit – since I got here, really – and I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that I’ve got a lot of traits and skills that might make me like a teacher, but that’s not exactly my thing. My enthusiasm for the things here that [...]

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Cold. Once more with feeling.

Posted by Jayml on November 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 10 comments
Snow, near L.'s apartment.

It’s cold. It’s very very cold. It’s been hovering just above freezing since three days ago and there’s a couple inches of snow on the ground. It’s a damp cold of the likes that gets into your bones and doesn’t get out. Ever. My apartment, I’ve discovered, is little more than a hollow concrete shell [...]

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More on that pesky mid-trip crisis

Posted by Jayml on October 29, 2009 at 11:31 pm | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| 1 comment

I’m getting itchy. Like… under my skin. I’m getting tired of a bunch of things here – mainly my inability to form connections due to the language barrier, that damnable wall I hit every time I try to forge some new communication with someone, or when I have a question I want to ask but [...]

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A bit of the old endless drifting

Posted by Jayml on October 1, 2009 at 10:56 pm | Filled Under: China, Travelogue, Xiangfan| No comments
natl day 006

Somehow, Fried Squid-on-a-Plate is less appetizing than Fried Squid-on-a-Stick. Nevertheless:
Things have been quiet out of me lately because, in the last week or two, I’ve slipped into something of a state of normalcy. I work slightly irregular hours over the week, do my two 8 hour shifts on the weekends, then hide in my apartment [...]

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