Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Lazy to Write

Published
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Gary
on March 28, 2008
in Travel
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I just designed a house in one night one day after designing a Boston neighborhood in one night. M.F. A curious side-effect of coming back from the other side of the planet—exactly 12 hours ahead—is that my sleep schedule is inverted. Instead of going to sleep at 4 AM, I’m waking up at 4 AM. Around 9-10 PM I start feeling ridiculously sleepy, like I was hit by one of those darts they use to take down elephants in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, I’ve started eating breakfast at Commons and feeling sort of awesome during the day.

Anyway, it turns out it’s a bitch and a half trying to get myself to write about Beijing and Hong Kong. (The extra half comes from the lack of photos—it’s way easier to write a “photos ‘n’ captions” entry than a hard text entry.) For now, I’ll mention the last day, which I largely spent bedridden with mysterious food poisoning that no one else got even though we all ate the same food. I got better just in time to go to the most exclusive club in Hong Kong and have a freakin’ awesome time even though some Dutch guy was all over the one… actually let’s not talk about that on the Internet. Afterwards we went back to Hoey’s Wan Chai pad to finish packing, where I drifted in and out of consciousness on Hoey’s couch; then we left for the airport at 5:30 in the morning. Not a bad way to end my first trip to China.

Back from the Orient

Published
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Gary
on March 23, 2008
in Travel
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I just got back from Beijing/Hong Kong yesterday… still in a state of disorientation. Basically I ended up in New Haven around 5:30 PM, had an omelet, went to sleep, woke up at 10:40 PM, stayed awake trying to catch up on all the crap I missed over the last two weeks, and now it’s 11 AM. BJ/HK’s 12 hours in the future, plus I slept may be 6-7 hours on the plane (and stayed up all night before boarding), so things are somewhat flipped in the ol’ noggin.

Also, browsed over the last coupla blog posts and have concluded that my writing is more Hannity than Vidal, and I should probably try to sprout a few more neurons or at least write in a manner more sophisticated or something.

Somewhat more comprehensive travel post forthcoming once I’m more right in the head.

Loathe America

Published
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Gary
on March 7, 2008
in Thoughts
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I feel like Hillary is destroying Obama with exactly the sort of dirty tactics he’s trying to move beyond—and winning because of it. America, why the fuck do you fall for Karl Rovian, Clintonian, Republican character assassination every damn time? Can we please have a President who’s not a scumbag?

Anyway, I’m off to Beijing tonight, and I’ll be back from Hong Kong on the 22nd. May be a trip to China will put things in perspective?