~Octopussy~ ⋅ 41 ⋅
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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The Music of the Universe in The Song Remembers When
Having my iPhone means that I have my music back again (it was too hard to get it onto my Huawei from a MacBook, and I refuse to do streaming services), and as I was organizing everything into u...
I startled a co-worker this morning. We were having a conversation when the phone rang, I politely told her I needed to quickly answer the call. I answered the call, gave a few instructions (my ...
It’s been a while since I just answered some questions, so let’s see how this goes. What are some of your favorite cities you’ve been to? I’ll always love New Orleans & Paris, but Chiang Ma...
Well, let’s rip off the Band Aid and get it over with. I had posted that interview Ark made a few months back to promote his tv series. I was very excited about it because his first series, Sha...
I went on the office work trip last month. I hadn’t planned on going since last year’s trip was such a disaster, but when the invitation came, I noticed that they were taking us to an all expens...
The final term of my contract is starting in just over a week and, once again, there are all kinds of mistakes. Well, that I’ve caught… I still haven’t seen my complete schedule, but the part I’...
Ark did an interview about his show that’s premiering right now and this is exactly what he’s like. He’s an absolute doll and sweetheart.
Nobody in positions of power remembers Maslow in Things That I'm Grateful For
I was totally defeated. That’s what it felt like. I wasn’t as desperate or sad as I had been in jail, in which I was literally laying on the ground begging for death to end my misery, but I wasn...
Into the Nightlife in Things That I'm Grateful For
Someone on here suggested I write a quick little guide to nightlife in Bangkok. I balked at the idea because it feels stupid for a foreigner to write this, but that person countered that I’m tec...
Brain For Sale in Things That I'm Grateful For
I don’t like people paying attention to me. I obviously think I have something interesting to say, clearly since I’ve been writing one of these things since 1999, but I really don’t crave the sp...
The vacation has begun. I have nothing really to say except that I randomly got a few ideas for some interesting plans over the summer. Hopefully I’ll get some work done on those and have someth...
I am fine. The earthquake in Bangkok did not affect me too much. I was at work recording a message for Limp while it happened. The message is pretty boring but it ends with “Holy Shit, the buil...
I talked to my mother for the first time since before Valentine’s Day. It was a long talk, and she’s kind of a bit lost with herself. I get it, and I understand it but I had to point it out to h...
Real Connections in Things That I'm Grateful For
I’m so behind on work, and I honestly can’t even get myself to feel any motivation for it. Like, it’s all so corrupt that I don’t even have momentum to get things done in a timely manner, which ...
White Flag in Things That I'm Grateful For
In a very technical way, I’m in my first relationship since that awful debacle with Jonah which everyone told me later was an abusive relationship. Not physically, other types of abuse, and I su...
Deal in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
I went on a little vacation last week. I visited Chiang Mai. It’s quite a lovely place, although it reminds me a bit too much of Haight-Ashbury. Lots of tourists, not really anything too exciti...
I randomly watched this series on Netflix and it kind of ripped me apart. I’ve been walking around like an open wound for the past week. There were situations in the show that I understood so w...
Well, the property is officially sold and I was very surprised when my mother deposited my share of the sale into my account. I have to be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about the whole thing...
I tried to get myself organized, but it seems to be a much more difficult process than I had originally thought it would be. I mean, I have to come up with a serious life for myself now. There’...
Why did you threaten him with Shakespeare?! in Things That I'm Grateful For
What size is your bed? You know, I don’t know. When I was talking to my mother about Cameron moving, she mentioned his “tiny” bed being so old, and I told her that bed was 20 years old. “How do ...
I received some news from my little brother in mid-October that surprised me. He said that he was surprised that I hadn’t been told about it, either, and so I called my mother for confirmation. ...
Honestly, my life stayed mostly the same for six months. I was working so much that I had almost no time for anyone or anything. Anytime I did go out, it was mostly rote and full of stupid choic...
The next semester started after I had only 9 days off. I discovered just a few days ago that I was assigned an international class against my requests, which means I do not have a day off until M...
You Are the Moment in The Song Remembers When
Everyone around me keeps talking about the major album releases that have happened this year, and I do have some thoughts about them, but I usually keep them to myself only because anything but a...
I think I may have made my mother’s statements from the last entry misunderstood, she has always been like that and it wasn’t said with malice, it was said matter-of-factly. It’s just an acknowle...
