SO BEGINS MONTH THREE

i only have four more weeks of classes left! two months have passed, yet i feel like i've done very little. had to stay up till five thirty in the morning for my essay last friday, so i spent the weekend recovering by walking around camden for the first time and watching hours of miami vice. i think i have a newfound appreciation for cop shows. or just really smart eyewear, the sound of synthesizers, and terribly overdone dialogue. camden market was aight, it reminded me a lot of bangkok's weekend market. people were selling many different sorts of goods (vintage clothing, records, jewelry), but i didn't see anything that you couldn't find at a street fair. walking along the canal and eating yummy food from the stalls were the most fun for me. i ate so much toffee because i couldn't resist all the flavors and had some takoyaki (dough balls that are a local specialty in osaka). i stole a picture from someone else's blog for you to imagine the scrumptiousness.


i had brought along my film camera with telephoto lens so i could photograph people. i was going to photograph these shoes hanging from the ceiling of a stall when i was yelled at by a black woman who told me i should've been thankful that she didn't punch me. how kind.

i've recently been getting into astrology. and by that, i only mean that i've been googling zodiac signs and reading up on the respective personality traits, etcetc. i've never given them much thought, as my feeling has been that people will believe anything they read, but perhaps i've been a bit presumptuous as i find myself very nearly fitting the gemini descriptions! these oversimplifications have been comforting in a way because i suppose they somewhat affirm what i already think of myself and make me feel less alone in my neuroses.

went to church today and was reminded that it's mother's day! yesterday i was walking to the mile end station when i overheard a girl saying "mum, it's only twenty to two in the afternoon and you're already drunk!" ahh to motherhood!