So Pangkil pics are up.

View the pictures on flickr

I felt like a little kid trying out the new waterproof camera. Bought, sadly, to the replace the non-waterproof camera that ended up in the Andaman Sea just before I got to Singapore.

My head is feeling so fragmented right now that I don’t have any idea where one part of my consciousness ends and another begins. I sit down in the library, and before I know it I have 30 things going simultaneously. Chats, papers, spreadsheets, 6 tabs open in Firefox, editing photos in Adobe, and still trying to finish my Bangkok videoblog. This is the fourth time I’ve returned to writing this entry since I first opened a new document. And it’s only got six sentences so far…that 1.5 per effort. Not encouraging.

My occasionally cited Word of the Day email service sent me a long (and by long I mean longer than just a word and a definition…may 3 paragraphs) archery analogy about concentration (which it took me several attempts to get all the way through, ostensibly told by the editor to her daughter when she was having trouble focusing on her homework. Essentially the message was if you’re shooting at the eye of a clay bird on a tree, when you’re aiming, the more things around the bird you see (tree, forest, whatever) the more places you’re allowing your arrow to go, reducing your accuracy/effectiveness.

But the way I feel right now, if I were to carry that analogy along, is that when I’m aiming at my target, I look down and realizing instead of a bow and arrow, I’m holding a pineapple and a tuba. If you catch my drift…..