January 2009
31 posts
Lotus Plaza - Quicksand
- This is the other side...
“Sutedis cialm the odrer of lettres in a wrod deosn’t mttaer mcuh. The iprmoetnt...”
WatchWomen - Shaking Hands
- This song and this album have been on repeat ever since I left the States. They’re coming in here in either March or May with both Wavves (Amazing) and Deerhunter (Fucking Amazing) which makes the bill on that show Amazing Fucking Amazing. It only costs £9, so I better get my tickets soon.
Two More Photos
-ONE // The office where I work.
- TWO // Cafe, Spitalfields at night.
When It Becomes Commonplace
- Even now that I’ve been in London for about a month I still have that spark of wonder that I had when I first visited, though I know that soon it will give away to a new sort of feeling that isn’t necessarily any worse, but a sort of settling in that one has when they get to know someplace so well that they feel apart of it. It’ll be the feeling of familiarity, but it...
An Address Is All That I Need
- The first week of the job is all set, and judging by the fact that I had a great time out with my coworkers on Friday night, I’d say it’s going to be a great time working there. Now comes the flat hunt. The thing is that I’m staying with my friend Claire who’s also doing the BUNAC program. I figured I’d just stay here until I got a flat of my own, but this place...
Two Photos
- ONE // An old woman, pigeons, and yellow near the Barbican
- TWO // Pastel and brick in Southwark
Handsome Furs - (White City)
- I’ve made it...
Job, Trabajo, Travail, 仕事, وظيفة
- Well, somehow, someway, I fell within the BUNAC statistics of getting a job in England “within the first week of being here” or within the first week of orientation. I landed a job at a place called “Temple Translations”, and my job is to edit certain documents that have been translated from non-English speaking countries to (obviously) English speaking ones, and to make...
He Looks Creepy, But The Man Can Write
- So today I finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book “Outliers” and it was really really good. The book goes along with Gladwell’s other books in that it attempts to analyze seemingly simple things based upon sort of anecdotal/scientific means. “Outliers” is about success, and explains success through the opportunities and contexts that were around those...
There Goes That Orientation
- Today, finally, I got to go to the BUNAC orientation to see what this whole business is about, and whether or not this was all just a giant scheme to take unsuspecting American money. It turns out that they seem they know their stuff, or at least to have been around doing the same thing for more than forty years. It felt a lot like regular abroad orientation or just like the orientation I had...
“If you do one thing for me, make sure they play ‘Goodbye Horses’ at...”