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Friday, December 30th, 2011

Sitting across from _老師 vis. his noodle soup

He slowly slurps his noo­dles in front of me, and I take him for a pro­fes­sor, an old man with a cer­tain aca­d­e­mic flair. Of course, I have no such rea­son for think­ing so, he could be any old man at this non­de­script, jam-packed hole-in-the-wall restau­rant (the best kind). A sky-blue col­lared shirt hides beneath […]

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

(Feet down) on the road

I’ve been run­ning for the past week or so, despite my grandma’s protests (“you’ll catch a cold”). It used to be eas­ier with the jet lag, when I’d get up at 5am and stare at the wall and catch myself won­der­ing where exactly I was. It’s been gen­er­ally driz­zly here for the past week or so, […]

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

On a different note

On the heels of that post and in a dif­fer­ent spirit, I also want to say that I’m thor­oughly enjoy­ing this trip to Port­land with some friends. Good eats, good com­pany and a lot of cof­fee, food trucks, walk­ing, cook­ing, good beer, beau­ti­ful runs, down­time, and trees. That, plus like 30% of our wak­ing time has […]