Nighttime Coffee Rant

The application has finally been submitted. Now all I can do is the play the waiting game. I'll admit, my passion for writing on this website has waned substantially since I started working on my novel/writing sample. I attribute it to a combination of things, the primary and most important being that I exhaust myself in reaching my daily quota with that writing, therefore decreasing my desire to write anything extra on here. To be honest, I'm not even sure who reads this site anymore. I know that some visitors still arrive, but they are mostly anonymous lurkers. Add to the fact that I haven't been on any trips lately, instead choosing to fall into the monotonous routine of working/reading/writing/sleeping, and well, quite frankly, who wants to read about that?

If your are curious about my daily activities here in the Pearl of the East, well here you go: I play basketball quite frequently, accumulate novels like I'm building a library, struggle to find the right words on a nightly basis, show Vicky Christina Barcelona to my students for 'cultural' reasons, drink a hefty amount of coffee, and attempt to reverse the rapidly approaching 'middle-age' clock. Oh the joy.

If you read this and actually want me to write about something, anything, please drop me a line. Having a goal, a plan to tackle, is infinitely more exciting than me telling you I had egg fried rice for lunch and saw a one-armed man playing the harmonica for money in Causeway Bay.

Briefs

My application goes out next week after a month of preparation. Finally. Nothing left to do but sit back and hope for the best.

Just finished reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and was floored by it; the narration, the story, the language (which alternated between English, Spanish, Spanglish, ghetto, and geek, sometimes in the course of one paragraph), the characters, the history lesson. Everything about it was well done. Yes it was hyped. Yes, everyone has read it. Yes, it won the Pulitzer as well as a handful of other prizes. But this one was definitely worth it.

Saw Misery Signals last week in a gymnasium. One of the best shows I've been to in a long time (probably since I've only been to two in the last two years). I'll put up some side stage monochrome pictures at a later date.

I can't believe the semester is almost over. I'll be back home before I know it. Does anyone want to hire me for the summer?