Category: Navel Gazing
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Cairo (The Hanging Church)
I should do a big tourist post about everything I’ve seen – maybe later. For now, settle for these bullet points of last couple days… 1. This weekend I almost got in a fist fight with a cabbie. 2. I also saw all of coptic cairo, which boasts cairo’s oldest synagogue, church and mosque. I…
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Cairo (Part 4)
Running in Cairo in June is a sure way to prove that there is nothing necessarily healthy about training for a marathon. I am still sweating. And my snot is really, really black. But I gotta say I love my neighborhood, I got incredibly lost, but hey, it’s a island, so as long as you…
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Cairo! (Day Three)
Do you ever have those moments where you just can’t believe your life? I had one today where I was like “holy fucking shit, I am riding in cab, over the Nile rive, in a suit, on my way to my first day at a job in a law office where I will be the…
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The Cabbie Photo
This is among a large number of posts I’ve moved from a now defunct livejournal account. It was written in the summer of 2007 when I lived in Egypt. I have been thinking about this photo in a hundred different ways. What does it say for someone like me to take a picture of the…
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Cairo!
I am in Cairo wrestling with trying to get my paypal account fixed so I can buy a flickr account and post hundreds of photos of how awesome my balcony is. Example one: .Oh, and Al Italia lost my garment bag which has my only suit in it. They claim it will arrive tomorrow, it…
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Cabbies and Traffic
I’m moving a bunch of old posts from a long defunct livejournal over here. This is one from when I was living in Cairo in the summer of 2007. You haven’t seen batshit crazy driving till you’ve ridden in a taxi around a rotary in downtown Cairo. Holy shit. I really wish I had a…
Milo and the Calf 