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Country: United States
State: Texas
Gender: Female
Interests: WORDS (consume more than produce). PHOTOS (consume and produce. nearly an obsession). MUSIC (currently only a consumer and not a producer though wish to be both). ART (both consumer and producer of). TRAVEL (full of wanderlust). FRIENDS. LIFE. [the "common nonsense" quote is from anne of the island by l.m. montgomery]
Expertise: DESIGN (or in pursuit of expertise in this area anyway.)
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
5/22/2003
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| At first, it’s just a dream, a scheme, an idea that makes you smile: “Let’s go to Southeast Asia!” we said. So then you start the planning. And you have to get the tickets. And your passports. And your shots. And all the gear you didn’t even know existed—money belts and water filters, quick-dry underwear and quick-dry towels. And your big big backpacks. And you read the books, and you look up the places to see and the things to do. Look at friends’ pictures and hear their stories and get all starry-eyed.
And then one of your passports still hasn’t arrived. And you forget about getting visas. So they’re not even going to let you on that plane with all that gear...so you start to worry all the time and curse bureaucracy. (And your bad luck that this is the year they start demanding passports for travel into Canada and Mexico, and this is the year they have an unprecendented delay in passport applications.) And you hang your heads for not thinking about visas earlier because you’re both so “busy” and “we have plenty of time.” So neither of you have passports—one that never arrived, and one en route to get a rush Vietnam Visa you’re not sure you even want anymore…So you gotta go fix this. Because you should be feeling excitement, not that knot in the pit of your stomach…
Original plan:
--Fly Houston, Texas to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on June 5th.
--Backpack through Southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore.
--Fly out of Singapore June 26th—StinaV back to Houston, StinaT to Taipei, Taiwan.
--CT spends a week in Taiwan with family and flies Taipei to Houston July 4th.
New plan:
--Fly Houston, Texas to Phnom Penh, Cambodia on June 10th.
--Backpack through Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia.
--Fly out of Jakarta, Indonesia July 4th, both Stina’s back to Houston, Texas.
Silver linings:
--Extra week to plan and prepare for the trip.
--4 weeks of backpacking instead of 3.
--Indonesia!
Plus:
--Don’t have to worry about visas anymore.
--Got most of the plane tickets refunded; didn’t have to eat the cost.
--Get to fly back together.
--CT’s plane seat from Singapore to Taipei was never booked in the first place due to some glitch, so nothing gained, nothing lost?!
So I won’t be seeing the fam in Taiwan. Or meeting the fam I didn’t know before in Vietnam. But that just means I’ll have to go back. And make it a trip devoted to that. To getting to know the place where my parents grew up and the people they grew up with. And to ask all the questions I want to need to ask. It’s worth a longer trip, anyhow, a more purposeful trip with more pre-planning and emotional preparation. Truly, it does. And it will happen. It will.
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happy 4th.
happy 5th.
happy day.
tired. because busy. and falling in love with this city and some npr interns.
which is good.
life is good.
is there joy in your life? i hope so.
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| 3 commit suicide at guantanomo
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/us/11gitmo.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
http://www.thislife.org/
> Complete Archive > Habeas Schmaebeau (3/10/06 Episode 310)
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on a less life-or-death serious note,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/us/11recruit.html?th&emc=th
employers checking facebook
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yo quiero. pero no tengo dinero este verano, y esta bolsa estA mas que treinta dolares!
me gusta multiple compartments, lots of pockets, and "in the main zipper compartment, many pen loops". haha.
y el color esta bien!
maybe i'll find something similar at h&m? or something altogether better.
i should go to the zoo and see the panda's again. i think they have new baby bengal tigers, too. there was a cute photo in the express,
the smaller size newspaper that is mostly clips of stories, a fast read
meant to be consumed within the time of a metro commute, and some say
the future of newspaper journalism? to adjust to the faster-paced
schedule of up-and-comings young business professionals who are used to
browsing websites, and whose attention spans are considerably shorter
than their predecessors?
who knows.
dc photos on flickr/nerdstar
the summer is fleeting, but by jove, i will live it. even if the whole
"must get job" "must stay close to family" thing is hanging over my
head. it's so different to be a "rising senior" doing a summer
internship vs. a recent graduate! (is this what all my design
classmates were feeling this past semester, this dread, this looming,
this uncertainty, all while still trying to finish up the smester and
work on the projects at hand! how overwhelming!)
excited about the sound library at npr. excited about intern edition
and producing and editing on dalet. excited about continuing design
projects. excited about eating ethiopian food for the first time.
excited about shopping in georgetown. haha.
even excited about updating my website. even though ftp's and
firewall's and computer problems have plagued me both at home and at
work since i've arrived!
--this book is QUITE good! i finished quickly. poignant, i guess, is the word for it.
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| I guess it's a leetle frustrating that our lives are still very linear
in that our perception of time is very linear...and we only get one
lifetime. So no matter how many possibilities there are in the world,
we do have to pick one and go for it. And even if you can change
course, and even if next steps can lead you to even more unexpected
next steps, you're still on a singular path.
I guess that's growing up...to realize that your choices now affect
your future later, and to start planning for that future, to start
looking longer-term "down the road."
I guess I'm in semi-denial about having to grow up now. This feels, to
me, as another summer vacation / break...but there does lie at the end
of August the decision of where to live and what to do and how to do it.
But for now, I am in D.C., a delightfully-explorable city, with an
awesome public transportation system. So I hop on the Metro, go into
town, and walk around.
NPR internship starts Tuesday. 
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