i've divorced travelpod.

at first i got hooked on travelpod because ted, the yoga guy from mn used it for his travels in india and i thought it was so damn cool. but then i remembered that i love google and am a super huge nerd like that so then i got a divorce and here i am, in the stages of a new relationship.

this way, i can write more of a personal journal and not just about travels and all of that profound stuff that i happen to occasionally stumble upon. i hate not finishing things so i'm going to have to let the travelpodders know that i've moved on, tear. :( and i also maybe uprooted my old posts into this and now that's enough of that talk.

today i woke up and feeling a bit groggy, i showered, dried and curled my hair, got dressed, and quietly (or so i tried) slipped out the door and headed for central to get more passport pages at the us consulate. after a long ride on the crowded mtr (when is it NOT), i ended up in central and followed the 'peak tram' signs because that's how you get to the us consulate if you're wondering. after 20 short minutes at the consulate, my passport was looking all shiny and happy and new and then i went and wandered around central because really ive only been to lan kwai fong there to party and im sure there is much, much more!

i ended up at hong kong park where there is an avian section which OMG i love birds. i wish i was a bird and maybe in the next life (if i didn't get this one right) i'll come back as a pretty bali mynah which is the coolest bird. well for now anyway. i wrote down the name and sketched it on a receipt that i was using as my bookmark in eat, pray, love. i love that book by the way. at first i was wary of it because i thought it was about just religion and finding god and it's so much more than that. it also makes me crave going to these places (italy, india and indonesia). if im lucky ill make it to bali or at least jakarta this spring. so after chillin with the birds for a while and listening to their pretty calls, i parked myself on a bench and read my novel for a little longer.

after escaping my little sanctuary in the park, i headed back to the crowded mtr and back to class. i went to lab which was a joke (info systems 101) and then walked over to the cafe where i knew i'd find sebastian eating a sandwich and studying chinese. funny how people are creatures of routine and habit. we talked for a bit about everything i could expel in 10 minutes since i had so much energy, then i had lunch with kristen, frances, hannah, christine and some other people in lg1 which consisted of dim sum. then i headed to management which was terribly boring since it was about absolute & comparative advantage and other trade theories and HELLO have we not learned this? or have I not anyway?

so then i kept jeff company with my coffee as he munched on his panini and then i headed back to my room for some flight searches and a quick nap. then i did some exercises and yoga stretches and now ive just finished my dinner (indian food from a box that was interestingly tasty). after i got a quick divorce, here i am.

i think ill finish the night by calling my fam fam and possibly proposing the idea of staying in beijing this summer (maybe not because the timing is off, i can just feel it) and then stretch, shower, and sleep. but seb might call me so my plans might change, but probably not. ps he is indirectly teaching me how to speak british and i love, love it. it's my favorite accent by far, with aussies trailing close behind.

today was perfect. the weather felt first-day-of-school-autumn-esque and the only thing missing were the leaves crunching beneath my feet. (that andrea would have to go back and crunch if she missed)

love and misses