I fell in love again, all things go, all things go

What do a young ex-British army captain, Cathay Pacific pilot and his two sons, honeymooning Londoners, a beautiful, bronze Spanish foursome, an Adidas regional salesman, and a twenty-six year-old, Serbian, Italian-raised cardiologist have in common with Nick and I?
Give up?
Surf Camp!
This motley crew was to be seen lazing about in hammocks, enjoying the morning’s banana [...]

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There’s no Business like Toe Business

Dear God.
I’ve survived the most traumatic medical experience of my life.
I’m now down one toe.
And when I say, toe, I mean TOE toe. The big one.
Ok, ok. It’s just the toe nail.
Ok–it’s just half the toe nail, but still. Traumatic.
More traumatic than violently vomiting in a KFC bathroom with the stomach flu [...]

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Don’t Say There’s Nothing to do in the Doldroms

And then I have these crippling, pathetic fears of inadequacy. The shadows that fall in the lonely time between projects; these doubts I always keep just far enough away from my conscious mind, just far enough that they seep in during the most unexpected moments.
I try to believe in myself, in what I do, [...]

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Surfen Verboten

On Sunday, Nick, Duane, and I borrowed the car to make our (now) weekly surf trip to Zhunan. We knew there was a typhoon on the horizon and the wave report claimed there would be 2+ meter waves, which is unheard of for our experience at the beach.
When I say there was a typhoon [...]

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Typical Days, Cha Nights

What a day, what a day.
Now it’s Sunday morning–6:21 a.m. actually!  I’ve been awake since about 5:30 with nervous energy, so I decided to write a blog entry.
I have some semi-banal news:
1: Nick sold, like, a lot of our furniture, as he is leaving Taiwan in less than a month and I’m leaving in about [...]

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Crash

“Don’t Move. They’re coming soon. Everything’s going to be ok.”
“What’s your name? No, don’t close your eyes. No don’t move. I know it hurts, it hurts, it hurts”
“Your head is hurt. Maybe your back, too. You have to wait. Don’t try. How old are you? Can you [...]

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The First Step

And so, with a serious face and a committed attitude, I registered for the GRE today.
(I also paid $195 USD for it…blughs)
So I’m officially putting forth an effort to put steps in motion to go to grad school.
Taiwan has a weird two-parter system, so I’m taking the Analytical Writing part on Sept. 10 and the [...]

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ACKADG!

AHH!
I just wrote this uber long, poetic post about my weekend and then it was ERASED.  Grrr.
I’m not writing that again.
Here, take this:
-we went to Dakeng.  It rained and was dangerous.
-we met a wild monkey.
-Nick and I are going to Bali in August, so surfing in Indonesia woohoo.
Stupid wordpress.

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You Just Keep me Hangin’ On

I dropped my scooter yesterday.  It was dumb.  I was going up the ramp at my school that I go up everyday and somehow my back tire got caught on the ledge below the ramp.  When I tried to rev the motor up, to get it up the step, the whole thing just fell sideways [...]

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I’m your stranger. Jump!

Good thing:
I don’t have skin cancer.  Hooray.
Sad thing:
Nick is leaving in August.  I mean LEAVING leaving.  Not coming back.  I’m not leaving in August.  I don’t want to leave until January.  So that’s looking at a few months of Nick-less, Luna-less Taiwan, which is to say a less than ideal situation.
Funny Thing:
As you teach English [...]

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