http://www.rah-kun.net A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/1154/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/05/1154/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:12 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1154 [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/feed/ 4 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/04/all-quiet/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/04/all-quiet/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:24:28 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1111 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/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/03/ah-yes-here-we-are/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:56:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1094 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/feed/ 6 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/ 2 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/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:04:27 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1003 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 [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/feed/ 3 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:52 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=986 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 [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/feed/ 10 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:26 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=947 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 [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:56:42 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=820 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 [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/a-bit-of-the-old-endless-drifting/feed/ 0