Well, here I am at the great CoffeeWorld 24/7 coffee shop. It’s almost progress report time, and I have a mile-high stack of papers to grade, so obviously I would opt to blog first. I mean, duh. That makes perfect sense right? So clearly I’m acclimating to Thai culture quite nicely…allow me to elaborate…

Ok, rule #1 about Thailand – If it make sense and reason is involved in any way…it probably won’t work out that way. In fact, the exact opposite of reason is mostly likely to happen in every single situation that arises in this great country. I don’t know why, but ask any foreigner (preferably an obnoxious American like myself) and they will confirm this notion. I swear I’m not making this up. I could provide you with example after example, but I would really just be wasting my breath. Honestly, the less you think here, the less annoying it gets. Ok wait, I just lied. It’s always annoying, but eventually you get to the point where hysterical laughter replaces curse words and you opt for just rolling your eyes, saying the classic phrase, “T.I.T. – This is Thailand,” and moving on in life. Joey and I have actually made up our new phrase – “Oh silly me for thinking…” (AKA: Reason? What’s that? Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Thailand, and the Thai culture is amazing. But this one tiny aspect of it has got to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever experienced.

So, once again I’ve been a slacker and I haven’t blogged for a week. BUUUUT…..I have a ton of amazing news! I moved out of my old apartment and into the mighty TIT (Tower), so I’m getting used to the good life. My 14th floor view of the city is the rawest thing about my new place. And even better…I can see the stars on a clear night. :) That makes it worth it right there! Also, I’ve for sure already taken advantage of my new pool, and I’m already rockin’ some sexy tan lines. Thirty minutes in this sun and you’re done-zo….well done-zo. So I got that base tan goin’ on already…getting ready for my July holiday next week! Which brings me to my second bit of amazing news–Next week Joey, Honey, and I are going down to Koh Tao (Turtle Island) in Southern Thailand to go scuba diving! (AHHHH!) I’m finally getting certified, and there really are no words to describe my stoked-ness right now! The entire trip is only going to cost like 10,000 baht (about $300)…and that includes party-bus/boat transportation to and from the island, 5-nights in a bungalow on the beach, my scuba certification (which would cost over $300 alone in the States), and most of our food. WHOA!? Be jealous…my life is fixin’ to get amazing. :) After I get certified, I’ll be able to just buy a ticket to Sydney, Australia and check off that “scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef” on my Bucket List. Haaah! Can’t wait!

So, the next bit of good news….Newsong people hang out at a local sportsbar called Sportsman’s on Thursday nights, so Alyse and I hit that up last week to play pool with them. It ended up just being us and our boy Kilang (from India). Heyo Daddy…you’d be proud of ya girl. I hustled ‘em in pool for sure! I was on fire! Sadly, Saturday night came and after church Alyse and I met up with Joey to play and I for sure lost 13 games straight. Some old guy kept challenging me and winning the table, and I seriously kept losing by like one ball. BONK. Pissed off isn’t even close to describing my anger that night…but hey. It’s just motivation to get better. Haha. I love it.

So, I got a little emo over the weekend. It was a busy, crap week last week (hence, the no blogging…I figured I’d spare you from my monotonous laments of my emotional instabilities). So, in my fragile emotional state, I decided it was a great idea to hit up the ginormous outdoor market in Bangkok with Joey and Uoo on Sunday. Well, this was indeed a good distraction from sitting at home and pondering life all day long, but it turned into the most ridiculous adventure ever. I discovered that I kinda have a thing for Asian decor, so maybe I spent waaaaaay too much money on the most unreal painting EVER. Hey…no regrets! I’ve always wanted a huge painting, especially one that looks all Buddhist and cultural and stuff (yep, just sounded like a retarded American right there). But yeah, I bought it. And Joey bought a 6-foot lamp, and Uoo bought a baby bird. Maybe we were all emotionally unstable. We sound pretty crazy now that I’m writing about it. Haha. We for sure looked crazy as we weaved in and out of traffic and people, trying to get to the BTS station with our huge purchases. And I’m pretty sure we argued with the BTS guards like 6 different times, begging them in Thai and English to let is get on the dang train. They didn’t want to let us since Joey’s lamp was so big…AKA: the size of another person. Um…not that big of a deal. (Once again, silly us for thinking reasonably.) But anyway, on top of all that, Joey so desperately needed an electric razor at 9:00 at night, so we lugged our crap all over the dang city to find it…and then we couldn’t figure out where to eat…and then we couldn’t figure out how to get the dang bird back to his apartment. (Yeah, buying a bird was the best idea they’ve had all week. Bonk. Haha!) So anyway, it was the most ridiculous day/evening ever. Aaaaaand I don’t know why I just wrote out that whole story because you’re probably wondering why I just wasted 3 minutes of your life with that. Oh well, get over it. You chose to read my blog.

So on that note, I’ll leave you with a pinky promise that I will blog again this week. I’ve been thinking philosophically lately, and in my recent emotional states I’ve had new insight…into myself, others, and God. So I’ll write about that tomorrow or something. For now, I’m going to do the responsible thing and grade papers like a good middle-aged teacher should do. (That’s what I feel like at least.) But I’m proud to say I’m keeping that 2159 college kid schedule still…staying up til 5 on Saturday night watching TV…or staying up til 1am Skyping people and waking up 4 hours later for work. Ha. I got this life on lockdown.

I’m out. //Cwalk.