sidetracked

So I've been writing a lot lately. Check out my writing blog: http://writing.yulebomb.net (homepage: http://writenothing.com)

Hey everyone Sorry to be so bad about keeping things going on here... I've been studying in Mongolia for the last 3 1/2 months, and just returned to the USA yesterday. I was keeping a blog, but the url expired while i was abroad, so I'll wait to post a link until i get it fixed :-p In the meantime, I'll be posting selected photos on here, for the rest, see my flickr... http://flickr.com/photos/yule

I want to begin this entry with a quote from Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia by Louisa Waugh: The mountains ahead looked as though they were on fire, consumed in flames of violet, orange and scarlet. The sky above them was a riot of dark, dark blue, purple, yellow and saffron, colours of wild laughter. The lake itself was molten silver, and in the far distance, God only knows where, a lone pyramid of rock or ice glowed a translucent pink like an immense suspended crystal. Elemental fireworks. At that moment it was as though Princess [a nickname] and I were the only people in this world: everyone else had vanished while the eart