some guy in lebanon

Today I paid for my new room for the next month, so thankfully I will no longer be sleeping on Nick’s couch…! I’ll be sharing a room in a flat owned by a hostel owner, near the Daily Star’s office Gemayze in East Beirut - It’s small, but decent, with a balcony that has a good view of the Mediterranean. As soon as I move in tomorrow I will put up some pictures. The room comes with internet and oil/gas is included, so that takes care of several problems.

So now the last thing I have to do is hack my iPhone and buy a sim card - Once that’s taken care of, as they say here, “Khallas everything will be taken care of.” Which generally means there are things that most certainly have not, and will not, be taken care of, but the important things are done.

I’ll be sharing the apartment with an intern here at the paper, successfully cutting my housing-budget in half, and he’s a nice guy. If he’s messy, I suppose I’ll have to murder him, but I think he’ll be alright.

Anyways! Life moves forward! I submitted my draft report on the future of the website today, all 20 pages of it. It took a lot of thought, but not nearly as much work as actually going through with the whole thing will take… I impressed everyone at the paper by staying at the office until midnight last night. I impressed myself because then I went to Captains Cabin for beers afterwards. I will write an entry on Captains tomorrow or the next day, as it’s the most wonderful little find, an old bar in Hamra near Nick’s apartment.

Till then…

The Dao that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not true.
The Dao manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.
-Dao De Jing