Knowledge Desire
Yesterday I was considering an application, yet again, for a research grant in Bulgaria. (It is disheartening that American institutes want to fund Americans who are in America and will return there, or foreign scholars,…
Author: koji
The things you own.
Being constantly on the move for the past 29 years has allowed me to reflect on this concept quite often. Every time I have to pack up my things and move them across the state,…
An Anarchist Weekend
This weekend we decided to go camping with some folk from couchsurfing. Everything was arranged and it was the most simple task, for us, payable in cash instead of effort. We were picked up with…
Dread Update, Week 3
BIG NEWS!!! I grew a Nikola shaped dread, like, overnight!!! No, but in reality there is still not a whole lot going on up there. You may think it is getting a whole lot messier…
A different city
Maybe it is just the summer time creeping in on alternating hot and cold sea breezes that carve out the space around the channel with freshness. Maybe it is just the finally shining sun that…
Alternative Ways of Being
I think that I have spent most of my life unsatisfied with society. This dissatisfaction has been a driving force in me. It caused me to do things that many people would never dream of-…
Dread Update: week 3
So my dreads aren’t doing anything particularly interesting this week. Little chunks of hair are starting to separate out at the roots, and that is kinda exciting, and I have some messy crazy loops forming,…
The Problem with Expertise
I spent my spring break in Bulgaria, among other things, getting my tooth fixed again. I have a tendency to do such mundane things on breaks that are supposedly known for their adventures, and generally…
Irony of the desirable
The other day I had topick up the second half of my course reader for my modern theory course. I bemoaned the constant need to purchase reading material during University, when people have some of…
A New Journey
So, we are finally moving out of the mistake that we made 7 months ago. I honestly cannot believe that we actually survived winter in this place. Already I have tried to tell myself that…