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Weekly Photo Challenge
This weeks photo challenge is hosted by HalvomomWhere am I? ©Colin Nisbet 2006 I'm returning to the world of Xanga armed with a game. Where was this photo taken? -
A Photo A Day
Early morning on Lake Inle in Central Myanmar ©Colin Nisbet 2006 -
Law School Beat
Some days you're the stone. Other days you're Sisyphus. The weather's got the landscape looking a lot like Hades today. -
A Photo A Day
This is a perfect example of how my tastes change after a brief interval. What you see below is a digital photograph that used to be one of my favorites. ©Colin Nisbet 2006 I've now come to regard it as far too brigh… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part XXIII
The Little Things I saw the tail end of the Michael Moore documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, last night. At the end, words were spoken from George Orwell's 1984. "It doesn't matter if the war is not real or not..." (I'm no… -
Law School Beat
I've been ill most of today. The doctor says I'm coming down with the cold. Could be the flu so I'm stocking up on orange juice and I've given myself the day off even though I was suppose to be doing outlines and readi… -
Life In General
Adventures In Snow Driving, Part I: My Car From the Inside and the Out ©Colin Nisbet 2006 First Snow today. It's October and, in what has historically been a meteorologically stable month, it has been nasty. I'm sur… -
A Mongolian Journey, Parts XXI and XXII
And Why Feel? Who would know that after the five-day trek (on horse that is) I would find myself back in the Dul Hotel - this time as a guest instead of a bar patron? A Fair Life Today I made my way over to the Nation… -
A Photo A Day
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My Morocco, Part III
I wrote this in July 2001. Follow this link to this host site and this link to my first and second installments of the story as well as the third and final one. OKay, this is it. Once in Marrakech, with my two new japa… -
中文学习
I've noticed that a lot of Xangans have been coming by my site who write in Chinese. I would like to be able to read some of what they have written. However, I do not know any Chinese. Does anyone know a good online s… -
Another Picture Today
From a shop front in Tallinn's Old City ©Colin Nisbet 2006 -
Life in General
I figured I'll just start doing whatever the hell I want with this weblog. I'm getting tired of saying I'll do this or that and then not having the time to do it. For one, there are a series of things that I have wante… -
My Morocco, Part II
I ended part one with me out in the desert pounding sand and seeing mirages all over the place right before i fell off the camel and rolled down the dune. Anyhow, after I left the dunes, I returned to the little… -
A Photo A Day
A while back, ostensibly forever ago, I lived in a place just outside of Munich. I had year-long contract to work there from the end of July 2000 to the end of July 2001. The town is Bad Aibling and, when I lived there… -
Burning Bridges #4
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My Morocco, Part I
A friend of mine from a while back set up this website that might be a thing of inspiration and well worth visitation to all you travelers and budding linguists out there: http://www.single-serving.com I visited Morocco … -
A Mongolian Journey, Part XVIII
Setting Down a Few Things Before Moving On II "Living well is the best revenge! When one is wronged, to be able to recover or to not even have to suffer the unjust transgressions of another is supremely beautiful," he … -
Weekly Photo Challenge
Shortcake2675's subject is: Planes, Traines, Automobiles: wings, tracks or wheels It was a bleak morning that day. I'm not sure even where we were except that we hadn't made the crossover yet from being in Asia to be… -
Unagi/Sake,
Or "Wasabe Hot!" Sushi Rock Report: Damn good sushi/sashimi/roll mixes! All around, it was a great time. I didn't take my camera so there is no photojournalism in this one entry but, rest assured, there is a great… -
A Mongolian Journey XVII
All Good Things A sip of yak's yogurt - sour, but how could it taste otherwise in the land of the dead? - after a sad rainstorm sent my mood spiraling into madness likea lost spirit. We left this morning from last ni… -
Law School Beat
It's been a difficult time over the past week or so. I've lost my ability to concentrate a bit but sometimes I want to think back. I'll ask myself, when I was half-way through a semester, would it be possible for me to… -
Building Bridges #3
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It All Comes Around On the Sushi Conveyor Belt of Life
Back to a theme from long ago... You say sushi, I say sashimi And no, it's not the same damn thing! I may be a true culinarista which explains why I'm always out looking for the best in sushi. As you may intuit… -
Travel Writing Ideas
Some ideas for vignettes - getting stuck in the snow (Venice, 04 - 05 March 2006) - carpet dealer (Jewish guy in Istanbul, early June 2006) - dating and driving in Moldova (June 2006) - - - expat sex life in Phnom Penh … -
Language Maintenance
我是美国人。你是中国人。他们是美国人,我们不是中国人。Ich habe ganz Chinese (Ich kann nicht fliessend Chinesisch sprechen) vergessen. Aber, ich habe nimmer zu viel wissen. -
A Photo A Day
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Law School Beat
I'm beat. I'm tired. I want a break. I want to be a writer. -
A Mongolian Journey, Part XVI
Good-Bye My Lover II A return back to some old ideas, an older story. Not that I'd exactly wish to write about mid-Jan 2005 while along Lake Khovsgol on May 14, 2006 (almost 16 months and on the other side of the world… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part XIII
Good-Bye My Lover [J] tells me he is heading more towards a life of nomalcy. A wife and a [kid]. A successful [IT] career. Though, I wonder, will it last? Nothing does; a promise of entropy. He tells met hat I … -
A Photo A Day
Tremont. It's a small multi-ethnic community that touts an vibrants arts community. What I liked most about the area was the infusion of locals, each of whom had a story to tell. The two in the bottom are from the are… -
A Photo A Day (Law School Beat)
Fall Ball for all of us rising star soon-to-be lawyer was last night. In a rare shot of me on the other side of the camera. It's one of the quintessentially "it's a great picture of you but a real bad shot of me." … -
Featured Grownups
THE XANGA STORY: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE AND WHY ARE YOU HERE? I haven't written anything for Featured_Grownups in almost a year. That was when I was back in Singapore applying for law school in the States. That w… -
Satantango
I just finished watching Satantango, a film by Bela Tarr, a Hungarian director. I saw the film over two different occassions: Friday evening (the first 250 minutes) and then wrapped up the last of it (another 185 minu… -
Law School Beat
I've got a Fall Ball (why bullshit, it's what everyone's calling Law Prom - I hated my senior prom, it was my only prom so to avoid any crap from anyone, I didn't invite a date. I'll just steal someone else's!) to att… -
A Photo A Day
Here's one of my images from yesterday. I had to take it down because I had gotten it into my mind that the subject for the Weekly Photo Challenge was about windows and doorways but it's "doors and walkways." Anyway… -
Weekly Photo Challenge
This week's subject comes from The_Wicked_Little_Pixie DOORS & WALKWAYS This post will be added to throughout the day. ©Colin Nisbet 2006 This is a shot from the Tibetan town of Gyantse. I'm not sure what t… -
Law School Beat
I didn't sleep last night. I'm a wreck. I got two large cups of coffee and more caffeine in me than good sense. I keep asking myself why in the hell am I paying so much to put myself through this. There's an art sc… -
A Photo A Day
I've just been traveling about the world for 500 days and while I'm back in my home country, I'm making sure not to get too far from my traveling bug roots. The two in this picture are from overseas. Both are LLM stude… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part XI
"Dostoevsky Made Me Do It" - Raskolnikov [J] is headed more towards a life of normalcy. A wife, a [child]. [J] has a sound [...] career. I'm headed more towards the "fucked-up life," so he writes. Blame it on the p… -
A Photo A Day
This is a sort of precursor to a new series I am going to start within my albums: nightshots ©Colin Nisbet 2006 -
A Mongolian Journey, Part X
Face, Bitch! One of the legacies of my enrolment at IUB was to sign up for a server that offers university students (and now HS kids) a chance to feel more important in our increasingly socially fragmented world - Fa… -
Law School Beat
I hate not being able to comprehend, at least right away, what I'm being exposed to in class. What I hate even more is missing class but I woke up this morning feeling like junk. Was it because I fell asleep on the cou… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part IX
Bread Into Stones There was that time, when I returned to Ft. Carson, began my ACAP. I felt as if I would own my life. I had proven myself to my unit back in Bosnia. Had overcome my fears, asserted myself, [...]. … -
Law School Beat
Today is much easier. I've gotten the idea of how I can settle into a groove much easier, which is to say that I will spend as little time in the law school library as possible. Yesterday, I found I made my way to a Bo… -
A Photo A Day
A clear day in Singapore -
Law School Beat
Today is not a day I want to be awake through. I've just passed 24 hours, my paper's done and so am I. Still got one more class though. It's 85 minutes and half a cup of coffee. -
A Picture A Day
Somewhere to the immediate east of the Urals. Day Two on the Trans-Siberian -
A Picture A Day
Taking you back to St. Petersburg, Russia. This is in front of the main entrance into St. Isaac's Cathedral. -
A Mongolian Journey, Part VII
Live and You Shall Fall I was sitting, my first full day in Ulaanbaatar, in Nayra Cafe. It was May 4th. I was alone (that is, I was eating by myself, a normal, usual circumstance) there, surrounded by a couple of g… -
Weekly Photo Challenge
This weeks subject is from CuriosityAndTheCatYour greatest fearThis sure will sure as hell beat the shit out of any boogie man!Fear not the reaper but the Merlion! In Singapore, there's a legendary animal known as the m… -
"Lessons From the Saddam Trial"
Right now, I'm sitting in on a symposium at Case Law: "Lessons From the Saddam Trial." It's extremely informative and is giving me all sorts of new insight into this case that hasn't been evident in the media's presenta… -
Recently...
No one has really seen any recent pictures of me. The profile pic is a year old but I like it. I haven't changed too much physically since that time so I don't think it is a big deal to keep using it. Personally, I ca… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part VI
A Burnt House Everywhere I Go And the serpent offered Jesus many things in the desert. Power. Unlimited and Endless. Bread becomes stones. Live and you shall fall. Make all the Kingdoms yours but you will still bow… -
Transit of Venus
Before Xanga there was Microsoft OneNote. I was going through my entries, there's about twenty pages in all, that I typed up between the beginning of May 2004 through August of that same year. I figured I'd share this … -
Law School Beat
My back feels a little bit better today. I wonder if I should go to Bar Review tonight. I'm pretty damn tired these days and I'm getting less done in more time. I have a lot more to write but I'm not going to do it he… -
A Photo A Day
©Colin Nisbet 2006 Thanks to my friend, Amanda, who supplied the face and glasses. Lake Chiemsee in southern Bavaria -
Law School Beat
The slouch is a bit worse today. The law library is not a good substitute for a bedroom. -
A Picture A Day
St. Petersburg by White Night. A view from St. Isaac's Cathedral ©Colin Nisbet 2006 -
A Mongolian Journey, Part V
And You Didn't Even Ask To Be Born When you find yourself at the very beginning of Time (so the Minds tell @ three million years ago) - everyone has and will again, succeeding the Harmony of the Universe, as such i… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part IV
And Where To Next? It's not that what is written here is beyond your comprehension. To be sure, read and you'll understand. I'm no better or smarter than you but, rest assured, this is better off unread, taped up… -
A Photo A Day
Bringing up back from Mongolia to Stateside, I decided to show some of my more recent goings-about. Nothing can trump the quintessential Americana that is baseball... ©Colin Nisbet 2006 This is from the first albu… -
Redefined
I just decided that I can't let me 500 days abroad keep defining my website unless I start a new Xanga. Considering how much I've enjoyed putting this together, I am thinking of ways to further revamp my site. I have t… -
Laborious Law Library Luminary
One day maybe, one day. But I really don't want to be stuck in this library right now. I've been here for twelve hours and have worked about half of that time. My mind is slowly going and the spirit of microeconomics … -
Law School Beat
Things in torts didn't throw me for a loop today which is a change of pace. I won't go into the details and the jargon because doing one will lead to the other and vice versa. In the end, you'll all be confused becaus… -
A Photo A Day
I'm trying to keep with my Mongolian theme today. The following digital picture is from Mongolia. This is from the Amarbayasgalant Khiid (Khiid meaning monastry in Mongolian) in north Central Mongolia. These are pr… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part III
A Matter of Time I was once asked if I believed (believe, depending on the exact point of reference in time) in God but at a certain point my point of lacking belief was so Great that I even abolished myself. Eric… -
A Mongolian Journey, Part II
The End of History I was speaking to K today about rebirth. The water flowed along the banks and the ship on the horizon didn't move as the ice did not melt. Nothing profound or profane. It was all left up to me… -
Another Month
Yep...it's October. Another month. I can't actually believe that it's already October. On one hand, this sucks but on the other hand, it seems like time really is moving. Before you know it, one week has come, anothe… -
A Mongolian Journey, part I
I'm not sure if I should give you only one entry per day or more. I'll begin with the first entry, even though I did write several per day. 12 May 2006 [The only date given even though the thoughts in this journal w… -
Paper journals...
Since I can't seem to find the time, or motivation at the moment, I have decided to start entering in different parts of my paper journal work. Of course, there will be some censoring. I don't think that it is necessar…
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