From the Mosh Pit

Which is basically how the last few weeks have been, and how I expect the next few weeks to go. I'll be flying in soon, February 14th, and staying for just over 2 weeks, and if y'all would be so generous as to grace me with your presence, I've missed you. I'm in the process of stripping and repainting my next room, and I'll put up some before/after photos of that when I finish it and can take some after-photos. Until then, roughly my week is a school-based stock, with a spritz of applying for fellowships next year and some large blocks of manual labor to fix up my room. Plus I've been getting around to quite a few places, including the famed hot springs of Bei-Tou, the traditional market of Bei-pu, in XinZhu, and the New Year markets in Taipei. They're all brilliantly exciting and all thanks to Erica, who first took me to Qing Jing Farm, and is as of today making her way to LA (and later to Detroit for snowboarding).







When we went to QingJing Farm, we stopped for a night in Taizhong, and then proceeded on to the farm, where we stayed in a really lovely B&B, and then proceeded to PuLi, XinZhu, and home on to Taipei. It was in XinZhu that I first caught a glimpse of the delicate young ladies who sell beetel nuts, which is a long story that deserves further explication.