~Octopussy~ ⋅ 40
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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I was listening to the one podcast I listen to (Kathleen Madigan does one where she just randomly talks about things) and I happened to hear that one of the old businesses I worked for went under...
Move On by George Michael in The Song Remembers When
As existential crisis after existential crisis was piling up during the the early part of the year, I randomly found this song and it became a kind of a mantra to get through the haze. I even fel...
Well, I am moving again. I wasn’t really looking to move until the last couple of months. Since Cameron’s visit, my electricity bill has skyrocketed to the point where it’s not a little over half...
Daggers in Things That I'm Grateful For
I wouldn’t say I’m impatient, but people think I’m very impulsive. This is of course far from the truth, it’s just that my patience is invisible to most people. I wait for important things, the t...
I was out with Bane the other night when all of the sudden Good came over and started flirting with me. It was totally strange. Good was the guy who broke my heart almost a year ago on the day my...
While cleaning up my hard drive to prepare for the new school year, which starts in 10 days (yikes!), I found the downloaded copy of my blog from 20 years ago. I was reading it and I can see in-b...
I'm Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear in Things That I'm Grateful For
I’m not sick anymore, which is good because I’m going on vacation this weekend. I’m going to a small little beach resort on the coast. I reasoned that I needed a vacation from my vacation due to ...
I’m not sure if it’s the arrogance or something else, but by day 3 of my little brother’s visit, I was ready for him to leave… and we still had 2 weeks left to go. It’s not as if there was anythi...
When I was trying to think of a title for the last entry, this song suddenly came on and I stopped what I was writing, jumped up and started strutting around the office. My coworkers thought I wa...
Prove You Wrong in Things That I'm Grateful For
It was Ark’s birthday a few days ago. For those of you who don’t remember, Ark and I were hooking up until he randomly got a boyfriend and forgot to tell me about it and it kind of broke my heart...
I’ve often heard it said that it’s more difficult to make friends when you’re older than when you’re a youngster. Supposedly it has to do with the fact that we’ve learned in our later years how d...
I spent most of the beginning of the month asleep with acute food poisoning (aka salmonella). That has to be one of the worst illnesses I’ve ever had in my life. It has taken me weeks just to get...
Honestly, New Year was a trainwreck so let’s just jump right beyond that. A few weeks ago, I finally went on the Pride Cruise that goes all around Bangkok. It was fun and extremely random. I made...
Due to a legal document I signed, I cannot discuss what happened in the Red Room, except to say that it definitely met all my expectations and I have not only been invited back but asked to parti...
I recently found out that part of the reason why I’ve had so many health problems recently is because I’ve drinking coffee that I’m allergic to. It’s so nice to realize that my seizures are a res...
I’m very blah. Nothing’s wrong, I just don’t feel like I have much going on right now. That sounds depressing, but I’m not actually depressed. I’m just not excited about anything. I went out the ...
Compassion in Things That I'm Grateful For
I walked into class and one of my students wasn’t looking as energetic or happy as he used to. The truth is, neither was I. Four teachers were out with Covid, so I was teaching way more than I ha...
Songbird in The Song Remembers When
Fleetwood Mac is my favorite band, but I didn’t become a fan until around 2001. By that time, Christine McVie had retired from touring. I never thought I would get to see her live, but she rejoin...
I was trying to find a survey because I really didn’t feel like writing, but as I was searching for something, I realized how awful the internet has become. I’m sure many of you remember how the ...
I looked around at the hotel room. On my way back from checking the bus schedule, two of the bar boys from the place I’d been last night asked hopefully if they’d see me again that evening. I did...
I return to work on Monday after 3 weeks of no classes and for some reason, I’m incredibly nervous about it. I feel like I haven’t prepared or something. I severely injured my foot on my birthday...
I’ve been really disconnected from music these last couple of months, but something funny happened. In West Hollywood, FUBAR closed. The Foobs (as we called it) was where I spent most of my time ...
Do you put ketchup on hot dogs? I haven’t had a hot dog in sooooo long… I really want a chili cheese dog (they have frankfurters here, but I wouldn’t really call them hot dogs, and no buns… they ...
I imagine my friends say that I should put myself out there and try new things, but that’s a lie. Nobody’s ever actually said that to me, it’s just something that appears in my head whenever I tu...
It was a few days before finals and I was reviewing the material with my youngest group of students, they’re between 11 and 12 years old. We were playing Hangman and they had gotten the first two...
