Hi all!
Thanks for bearing with me in this extremely busy time. The launch of my newest venture. The Whole Soul Bakery is happening this Sunday, so I'm more than a little distracted.
Hopefully I'll be back to tickle your fancies soon.
Peace!
Jess
Ps. If anyone is in the Beijing area and would like to receive an invitation to the launch of the most innovative new bakery in Beijing, leave a comment with your email and you shall receive :)
As the sounds of rain drift in off the hong kong streets, i think i'll make a brief stop over here and issue the first post of substance in quite a while.
I've been about five different kinds of busy with the business starting, so hopefully all you avid readers (aka mom) can forgive me for being so utterly absent lately. Especially after starting up that topic and then promising interesting analysis and insight. I'm a bad blogger for disappearing so thoroughly. Truth be told we still have no internet in the hutong, and when i make the trek to the cafe it is inevitably to tweak some miniscule detail on the bakery's flier (or business card, or website, or...) so i have little patience or time left over for posting on the blog.
But now that i'm in hong kong, and as usual am awake before everyone else, i do have a chance to sit myself in front of a computer and engage in the time drain that is my blog. i'm down here for yet another visa run (damn you unwelcoming chinese government) and am staying with the friend of a friend that i met on my last run down here. He's something of a couchsurfer extraordinaire and is actually hosting four other people at the moment.
you might think that this means his place is large. it is not. two are on the living room floor, two in one bedroom, and one in another. what his place is, though, is welcoming and cozy, and he is extremely considerate. he has a laptop in the living room designated for use by surfers and a huge cupboard filled with spices people are welcome to use. keys are always in the mailbox, and it seems as though people are always welcome to come. he's got a fabulous page on the web with detailed directions to his little abode in a small village about an hour outside of downtown hong kong, and all in all he's a fabulous couchsurfing host. it's making me think a lot about community and the steps that people are taking to maintain a sense of this in the fast paced technological world.
Since yesterday was a travel day, i was fasting. now that it's morning and the rains are pouring down my body thinks some food might be nice, especially since i fly out tomorrow morning at 830am and dont arrive in beijing until 630pm....damn you, long shanghai stopover. damn you. and thus i leave you.
much love and many well wishes
jess
