“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” – Roman Payne I sleep in after too many beers at Playground. If someone asked me if I had a hangover, I would say no, but I need some Panadol and I skip the gym. There is…
Category: the grind
Falling for Seoul
“Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I’m even pleased that I’m falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky I tripped on my run today. 100 kg of an old person hurtling toward the…
Arrivals – Dubai
“The heat was total… it had weight, shape, color, and taste. It pressed with the force of iron against the eyes.” James Agee Still shit.
Departures – Sharjah
“there is no end of the road when you travel with me” Song lyrics that made me think of Rachelle I have carried what is now diagnosed as scleritis for over six months. The day after school ends, I stop taking the medication, and my eye remains clear a week later. Work, location and money…
Arrivals – Dubai
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Henry David Thoreau I am waiting for Dubai to compensate me for its disappointment.
Departures – Dubai
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” Alan Watts We have crawled to the end of term. Sometimes it felt like Rachelle was dragging my corpse to the end of term. Dubai remains a sand pit of consumerism, but the weather is nice. It is hard to like a place where the view…
Departures – Dubai (again)
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” Roman Payne Thursday Having survived the term with a few back injuries and relatively illness free, I woke up yesterday with a sore eye. Today…
Austria Dreaming
“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.” Milan Kundera Thursday One more week until the break. Thoughts have shifted from Korea to Austrian mountains. A busy…
The Short Week
Thursday “Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.” Charles Bukowski I could get used to a two day work week. On the spur of the moment, the head of our school decided to announce our impending departure. Some people cared. Most didn’t….