I haven’t been writing because there’s nothing to write. How about a pretty picture, instead?

I was accepted to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London some months ago. I’ve been hemming and hawing for months, trying to figure out whether or not school was really the right course for me. In the end, I decided that I’m far too unsophisticated, and that school would do me good.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to afford SOAS without some undeserved aid. This past week, unemployed, I’ve been sitting by the door like a latchkey dog, waiting for the postman to arrive with news regarding a bursary from the school. If I win it, I’ll be going to London in September. If I don’t, I’ll try to defer.

With school up in the air, I have made no concrete moves toward conducting ethnographic research in San Francisco. I need to obtain permission from people I’ve been speaking with before I put anything more than I already have on-line. And I don’t feel right telling certain people who might get their hopes up that I may be doing something that I can’t for certain commit myself to.

So, for the moment, tea and writer’s block.

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