b e h n d i n g

butteryfly twitching or trembling still, found outside my office.  picture a printout of new yorks chinatown, to be used for presentation of self while on english teaching assignment in china.

will be in china from 6/8-6/21.  teaching, curveballs, frustrations, feel good moments, uncomfortably high heat and humidity, mountains, biking, hiking, rock climbing are all expected.

smushed birds and smushed flowers look very similar.

i’ve been hemorrhaging money lately.  i guess it has to do with the whole goodbye thing — saying farewell costs money, it turns out.  and it’s not really the goodbyes to people but to the place that runs up the bill: doing the things you kept putting off, being inclined to think less about spending more because, hell, you won’t be here for much longer.  spending money has become a manifestation of early onset nolstagia.