Archive for October, 2006
For the first time since I arrived here - with the exception of a few unseasonably balmy days towards the end of last month - it was warm enough this morning to walk around Auckland without the requisite five layers of clothing. Though there’s a funny kind of comfort in wearing sweaters and multiple pairs […]
A funny thing has been happening in the past few chilly days, amid the rain and the wind and the ever-fucking-lasting cold - a slow, sneaking-up intrusion into the normal feelings of pleasantly detached alienation one tends to experience after the initial shock of arriving in another country wears off and the daily requirements of […]
Indeed, it has been a long time since my last blog post, no? Or if not so long, then long enough considering I have so many lovely people IMing me and asking me (either in the wee hours of the morning when I am barely awake or right before I collapse into bed - ah […]
In the short two weeks that I’ve been living in New Zealand, I have already come to recognize a number of required rites of passage that one must seemingly undergo before being fully accepted into Kiwi culture - driving barefoot, willingly consuming Weet-Bix, and mastering the phrase “Sweet as” among these many necessities. One essential […]
