[starbase]

Everything's fine. Work has entered a kind of twilight zone of indecision. As I said previously, we had a contract date to finish, then a new agreed upon date, then I offered a few weeks as optional, then they started interviewing now, four weeks before the original contract date, now they're nervous about the new guy and are talking all huggy kissy to me again.

Meanwhile it feels strangely like this job has already ended like four different times, yet I still go in every day!

It's weird, but fortunately harmless at this point. Just hanging out in a foreign culture. Actually it's no so foreign anymore. If anything the Westerners seem kind of weird to me now (remember that song "I Think I'm Turning Japanese"?)

They (or should I say "we") the Westerners, are just so selfish, it's me, me, me. While Chinese seemed robotic and heartless sometimes, now Westerners seem neurotic and compulsive, always worried about what they want next!

We're all individual units who are out for ourselves. Really comes across when you've been hanging out with a more or less hive mentality. I guess everyone in the world is screwy! I guess any human system of society is going to be flawed and have unintended side effects, no matter how meticulously it is planned out.

[Soaring Feather]

I guess everyone in the world is screwy! I guess any human system of society is going to be flawed and have unintended side effects, no matter how meticulously it is planned out.

Yup, we are not perfect are we? And look at all the writing material you have gleamed over the years in the Orient. ;)