need a win

the kindest way to phrase it is that yesterday was very much a "disillusionment" phase kind of cultural-adaptation day.  we'd moved our way out of adjusting and shock, worked our way through assimilation and curiosity, and straight through to that frustrating place where you basically understand the what but the why, that damned why, still escapes you.

yesterday, why was the only question we were left with.

we needed a win.

so we turned to pancakes for lunch, fried chicken for dinner, and s'mores made over our gas 'stove' for dessert.

and after our attempts to drown the day in fat and sugar, we proceeded to fall asleep watching liz lemon's very first season and let her try to make us smile.

and finally, thankfully, it was wednesday.

funkytown

i've been buried deep down in the heaviest of funks for the past three days.

(as if my emo post from yesterday, with clearly very little thoughtful merit, didn't make that painfully clear.)

heading to funkytown for me involves a lot of watching mindless shows like glee, spending too much time on the internet, and being indescribably tired.  inherent in this is a general lack of motivation to do anything, including running, which i started doing earlier this week and did really well for three days until the funk hit on wednesday.

there are various reasons for this funk (that's a lie- there's really just one), and i keep apologizing to topher for my general lack of energy, the heavy sighs that come out of nowhere, and the inability to focus on conversations.

so, apologies for the lack of vietnam trip recapping or various other posts that i dreamed up before i got the blues.

maybe i'll have adjusted by next week, and we'll return to normally scheduled mindless ramblings.