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For the Record - 2016 into 2017
For the Record – 2016 into 2017
The years keep flying by before I have time to acknowledge them. Old things fall out of focus, new things make room in my brainspace. Can’t believe so much has happened. In 2016: I spent more time up in the air than ever, 120 hours (or more) in planes; 48+ hours on the road. Tokyo, LA, Toronto, Melbourne, Minneapolis, Chi-Town, Sydney, Boston, Portland, Niagara Falls, Niigata, State College, and…
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Jim Syndrome
This post was written in Fall of last year but got swept under the proverbial rug So I “sell” stuff. I travel and sell stuff. Through Pennsylvania to be exact. And just this October I took up improv classes. I am officially becoming Michael Scott. But rather than paper, I sell one of the most influential currencies of all: Ideas. More specifically, the idea that changed my life: Study Abroad. I…
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Transitions
If you’re not always changing, then you’re probably not growing as a person. 2016 has been a year defined by transitions and my ability to adapt to them. The fact that this was the year I blogged the least, proves this entirely. The routines, habits, traditions I built in 2014 and 2015 were tested, and now it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Look out for my thoughts of 2016, my…
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365 Days of You
365 Days of You
I heard that “if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.” If that’s true allow me to immortalize the one and only Paula Elcheikh. Early September, 2015. In between semesters so I was doing standby at honbu in Yoyogi. Excited not to have any classes to teach that week. But I’d still be doing some mind-numbing stuff. Like making lesson materials (which were called props because we…
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Princeland
Things are finally buckling down at work. Out on the study abroad fair circuit. Visiting schools, securing meetings with organizations (well, trying to). It’s busy. And right now I’m wishing I got something to eat before I hopped on this plane back to Philly. Minneapolis—or Princeland is what I’ve begun to call it—was where I spent the end of my mid-September week. And I just feel so grateful…
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A Window Seat to the Stars
A Window Seat to the Stars
Just my glorious luck. Another flight delayed. This time I wasted my hours away in the cold Philly International Airport. Last time it was in Portland due to bad weather. But this delay came with no explanation. Something “eventful” must have happened on a previous leg, pushing the entire schedule back. But no worries, I was off to Chicago! Home of the deep dish, funny people, and that bean…
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Analysis of Spirited Things
Analysis of Spirited Things
Disclaimer: This post is about religion from my perspective. Just putting that out there. Three years. That’s about the amount of time that’s passed since I’ve stepped foot in a church. I’ve been to temples to watch monks meditate. I’ve posed for photos in front of ancient shrines to gods I never knew. But no church. If you’ve read my memoir you’re probably wondering what could bring this Vulcan…
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Seeing is Believing
In the four years I spent at J.R. Masterman, navigating my descent into nerdiness while fighting the inevitable onslaught of puberty, there’s one moment that I would consider to be “life-changing”. A moment I still remember vividly today, even as those Spring Garden memories fade deeper into the past. Ironically, this life-changing moment is connected to Star Trek, and I didn’t even realize it at…
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For the Record 2016, Pt. 2
For the Record 2016, Pt. 2
The pen calls me action, but with no direction the ink drifts off into white space like black stars in an “other” Universe. I’m on the couch with Freud, Miller and Reggie Watts. Trying to associate reason with something but making more or less sense about nothing. So I call upon a compass. The Compass. Oh Muse, point me in the right way. Teach me how to plan it all out, how to guide my own way…
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Another Ending
Man this one is from a while back! I’ve been writing, just been a neglectful poster. I’ll be changing that of course now that I’m all settled in. But for now check out something I wrote, but thought I posted here a month ago lol Written March 16-21 My new job had ended just as quickly as it started. I’m funemployed! Haven’t had this much time off since Summer Vacation 2014. A week has passed. I…
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Clothes Make the Man?
Clothes Make the Man?
“Yoooo, look at that, that whatever it is! I need that in my wardrobe!” “Yeah it looks pretty cool. Let’s check it out.” It was a hot September day in Osaka. My first time out in super chill Kansai. My friend Jess and I were walking through the busy streets of Nanba, surrounded by tourists and shoppers on a shotengai that seemed to extend to the ends of the Earth. It was there that I saw it. Long…
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For the Record-2015 into 2016
For the Record-2015 into 2016
Hello my fellow Wandering Samurai. It’s that time of year again… Resolutions, pinky promises, and goal setting. A New Year has come as we now enter into the second half of the 2010s. As I do every year—taking inspiration from one of my favorite bloggers, James Clear—I’ve decided to publicly evaluate my progress of the year. The 3 themes of 2015 were: Writing For Me, Focus, and Positivity. Here’s…
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Enigmatic: Why They Can’t Read Us
Enigmatic: Why They Can’t Read Us
“Sometimes I feel like I just can’t read you.” Weirdly enough, as I grow and become more in touch with who I am than I ever was before, I still here this phrase. And not just from new people I meet. I heard this from my mom only a month ago. Wouldn’t it make more sense that everyone else would also understand me since I really understand me now? Well it doesn’t seem to work that way. And the…
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Things Learned 2015
Happy Christmas + Merry Holidays everyone. 2015 started out as wild ride. On New Year’s Day, each one of my friends and I made pacts to live life to the fullest this year. Take risks, do crazy shit, and have no regrets. I have to admit that we all did that, and I’m in a place that I never expected to be in. Totally happy and just living it. Learning more about myself each day. As always I try to…
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Really Gonna Miss This
Really Gonna Miss This
Time is winding down, 2 1/2 years straight. 3 including study abroad. I thought I was ready. Yet here I am feeling nostalgic before I even depart. And I won’t even be stepping on a plane until sometime mid-Spring. This is getting weird and melancholic again. Why even force myself to start all over? I’m really gonna miss this. I’m gonna miss walking into the conbini at any one of the 24 hours in a…
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Living For Nowlater
I have to admit. Life is Good. I know my friends probably think I say that too much but this phrase is just as true as it was all those other times. (But probably more so now.) I got wonderful friends, a group of coworkers that are as offbeat as I am, and I’m not really extremely broke (compared to the Ibaraki days). I’m eating out on the town, drinking ’til last train, and taking…
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People Live: Feelings of Sonder
People Live: Feelings of Sonder
Sundays. It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m packing my bag: journals, red and black pens, and my laptop. I’m off to the next station over in search of a new cafe, a new place, anywhere to feed and nurture my inspiration. I love my apartment. It’s tall white walls and second floor view grant me more headspace than my previous spot. Yet sometimes you can only nurture an idea but so much in the same…
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