So it’s almost July, which means it’s typhoon season. (not to mention almost time for me to fly back home) All you readers in the US who get sick of hurricane season Ominous Warning After This Commercial stories every summer — especially since I grew up a thousand miles from any hurricane track and a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
storm season
26 June, 2008
plumbing
21 June, 2008
Well, for me, this morning marks when summer began in HK. Students have been out of school for a couple weeks now, and the dorm has been mostly empty. The cool spring rains we’d been getting broke on Thursday. I think the solstice is tomorrow (because of the date line and stuff, which raises all [...]
epicycles
19 June, 2008
Well, it looks like a full moon tonight. Which means on the night we’re all going to be staying up all night to catch our 5:15 airport coach, it will be a new moon; in fact, the next new moon. This is suddenly very soon.
Joe told me today that at 12:30 (approx. solar noon, as [...]
a time-specific post about sports
19 June, 2008
Namely, go Sweden! They control their destiny against Russia (can’t finish first in group because of head-to-head record, will finish second with a win or draw), and the defense was solid while being tested against Spain for the entire 2nd half until playing one possession too aggressively in injury time (which of course cost them [...]
*rain sound*
13 June, 2008
Out in the New Territories, we’ve been getting rain in short, heavy, dense squalls. They punctuate days of gray skies, mark the hour just before dawn and the one after dark. Water spangs off my air conditioner, even though it sits under the eave created by the air conditioner on the floor above. It splashes [...]
how quickly things change
12 June, 2008
I thought I’d steeled myself against the pain of rejection, but apparently there’s no good preparation for being told (repeatedly and coldly) you just aren’t suited for what you thought you wanted. After applying 54 places and as of right now only having been rejected by six of them (but haven’t heard back from the [...]
