Ok, it’s really not that hard to grock.

sometimes i feel like it takes all the energy that i can muster just to drag myself out of my apt when i don’t have to go to work or school. i love being in a city, but there are days when it all seems like way too much stimulation. when i first moved here, the bars still permitted smoking which meant that about the only time i would ever go out was when i had someone visiting from out of town.

when the smoking ban when into effect at the start of this year, i think i probably went out about three weeks in a row and then got bored of it and took another big break. these days it takes a really special mood or some very good reason to get me out, and when frankie knuckles was set to perform at club culture i figured that was good enough of an excuse.

the music was really good, but for some reason the 11 billion thai gossip and fashion magazines were out in full force. the was probably one photographer for every 10 people, each one trying to get interesting shots for their publication. these two shots of me ran in cheeze magazine (for people not familiar with the thai press, this one has about 80% fewer words than intellectual paragon from usa called InTouch). you can probably tell by the second shot that i look pretty annoyed at the paparatzi. i scanned the full pages in case you want to see what else they were shooting that night, click the images to view full size.

this ran in the weekly newspaper for my university, interviewed me about being the only white person studying in the general program and a few other things about my life. the university has over 600,000 students and i think most of them get this in the mail every week.

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this was in the november issue of thai seventeen magazine, with me is sherry (the one i went to india with) and pank (the one who wore the red wig) …. as much as i’d like to think they were interested in documenting my presence at the fashion show, i think they were really much more interested in sherry (especially now that crocs is out).