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the blog none of your friends are talking about

Month: May, 2005

I can’t read Chinese…

ok, I have like zero time to write, but I wanted to let y’all know that I’m here, I’m alive, and I think the Orient is hilarious. The people are so sweet, and they think we Americans are celebrities of some sort. I’m Justin Timberlake. That’s about all the time I’ve got honestly. sorry dudes. [...]

pre-trip update 2.0

Well I haven’t written in a while mainly because not a whole lot has changed: I’m still in the states, still haven’t gone to base camp, and I still have the same lifting requests stated below. I have been able to think about various aspects of this trip more lately than I could when finals [...]

praise Pappy!

I found out minutes ago that I have raised all the money I need for the trip! Pappy is so rad! Thanks so much to those of you who’ve been talking to him for me! Thanks also to those of you who have left comments! As awesome as they are to get now, before I’ve [...]

here’s what I want…

could I bother all you readers to leave me a comment on this site? I’m pretty certain that nobody is looking at it, and that defeats the purpose indeed. thanks a lot. I just want to make sure all this creative genius isn’t in vain.

lifting requests round 1

Well I sent out this website’s address, so I figure I’ll take advantage of it (assuming anyone even looks at it). Here are some things you can be talking to Pappy about for me, followed by some comments:
- that Pops will continue to provide financially for my trip (He’s so good)
- that Pops will keep [...]

a test and some flavor

I’m still trying to master this whole website thing. Most of it isn’t very difficult, but leave it to me to make things harder than they ought to be. I think this site will be everyone’s source for keeping up with D.O. as he travels the ins and outs (really just the ins) of China. [...]

testing…

this is clearly new to me, and I went ahead and didn’t choose a template to make my page display attractive, so this is what we’ve got… unless I can figure out how to change it…
edit: 15 minutes later, the page is more appealing to the eye, and nobody ever knew it wasn’t.