Allison Chang

CRAZINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like a plastic trash bag swirling about in the wind – like, that one home video scene in American Beauty – you know, that one part when the neighborhood boy gets very emotional about how much beauty there is in the world. Yea. Only it’s not beauty that I’m overwhelmed by – it’s chaos.

With the Christmas craze fastly approaching and the wrap-up of my co-op at Neutrogena, I am somehow finding time to capture a smidgen of my life into this blog – not that this moment has any relevant importance….it’s just the mild calm before ths actual storm. Christmas errands, work errands, and London next Friday! I have had no time to plan for that 2 week extravaganza, and I’m hoping New Year’s Eve won’t be a bust. Financially I am unsure how it’s going to fly, and I am eagerly awaiting a document from the Shanghai University so that I can quickly apply for a multi-entry visa before I leave for London! Intermingled between Xmas shopping, cookie baking, dumpling frying, unpacking to pack for London, I absolutely must catch up with old friends who will only be in town momentarily long enough to say good-bye to me after Xmas – London kind of messed everything up in that aspect – but na ja! I want to see the stonehenges, walk abbey road & tag a few meaningful words on the wall, drink british lagers at the local pubs, ride the london eye, eat really gross fish & chips, party in hackney and camden, and surf the tube!!! I am even looking forward to seeing my old friend Danny. Who shockingly resembles Turtle

He was right – I am going at an astronomically fast pace, and it’s getting harder even for myself to keep up! I prefer it that way. It leaves zero time for absentminded boredom & minimizes time spent dwelling on what I COULD be doing, or wish I was doing, or being sad about not doing what I thought was going to be doing.