I discussed in a recent blog the remarkable sequence of synchronicities that lead me to renting my latest apartment. I’m a believer in determinism (with a theistic bent), and am constantly looking for signs which indicate that I am, indeed, on the life path that I am intended to be on. As one who believes […]
I don’t do many political blogs, but there’s something going on in West Africa that seemingly no one cares about because I sure haven’t heard about it on either of my two main sources of news: The Rachel Maddow Show and The Daily Show. The situation in Ivory Coast has gone on long enough!! Doesn’t […]
A sense of humor is like a fingerprint. There are no two exactly the same. It’s got little swoops and swerves and patterns that may resemble the sense of fingerprints of other people. Similarities can be noticed, but what is “funny” varies as much as people do. For example, today I was sitting in class, […]
I was on my front patio today, and saw what I thought was something cute, so I went and got my video camera. Turns out, it was anything but cute. Squirrels. Gotta love em. Perky, fluffy, beautiful tails. Mischievious dispositions. They seemingly have ideal lives of play, food and being outside. But… they don’t live […]
They wouldn’t let me attend Public High School #70. It was the closest high school to my home in Jakarta, but the family I was staying with wouldn’t even send their own kids there, much less the 16 year-old American exchange student trusted to live with them. See, SMA (Indonesian for high school) 70 was […]
I looked at the address on Craigslist and knew exactly where the property-for-rent was located. I knew the street very well; the place was located a block away from the first place I lived here in Washington. That old place where I lived for a little more than two years was rented to me site […]
(I’d originally titled this blog ‘Apartment Hunting with Joko’, but referring to oneself in the third person… Joko is trying to avoid that) I’ve made a lot of bad housing decisions in my day. I’ve moved into several places over the years that I soon discovered that I didn’t particularly like. Sometimes, they were downright […]
I stared at the notice in disbelief. Eviction. All residents at our unit must vacate these premises by January 31st. Huh? What is this? It had to be some sort of mistake. I just got here! It’s been only three months. There haven’t been any complaints. We’ve paid our rent on time. What the heck […]
DAMN IDIOT DRIVERS!! I am very careful out there on my trusty bicycle. I have found it safest to assume that ALL of the drivers out there won’t see me… because I only have to be wrong once for bad things to happen. The other day, some idiot made a left hand turn without seeing […]
Over the last few months, I have made some disparaging comments about the quality of the academia at the community college I am currently attending. I feel bad about that. I was wrong. I should not be dissin my fellow Tritons. I’ll make up for it by posting a term paper that they all can […]
