Pretty Hard Work for a Day Off

I woke up at the ungodly hour of 9:55 a.m. for a Chinese medicine doctor's appointment. He scanned my neck with a machine that is like a children's version of an ultrasound, and it made some happy bright lines on his computer. "Your neck is ruined," he informed me. "Also, your one leg is shorter than another leg, and you are lazy and you don't stretch enough." Then he used a sort of tiny pneumatic drill to poke on my neck. Then I went back home and slept until 15:30. 

It being another beautiful day, I went out to the bowl in 南港. The expat crew were all there, but I cut it short to come back into the city for mandarin lessons. Somehow, I spent the next eight hours under the bridge. filmerT showed up as the lights went off, and we ended up trying to film me getting a line that we already wasted another entire night on last week. Tonight was basically the same result. Technically, I did it, but it was so hideous that I can't stand looking at the footage. filmerT has a talent for making things fun, even when they don't really work out. At least we got a lot of footage of me acting like a jackass.

At around midnight, I got an email from work, regarding some editing due at 9:00 a.m. So filmerT took me back home on his scooter. I got some grainy cell phone footage of the neon kalaidescope (spelling?) that is 中山路 at 2:00 on a Tuesday night. Surprisingly, filmerT is the mellowest scooter rider in all of Taiwan. However, at one point, he pulled over and announced "I have to throw up now." I was a little startled, but it turns out he just meant he needed to spit out some bin lang. 

He dropped me off at 民權西路 station and we filmed a little bit on the marble banks out front. The run up is tilled, and we were making a somewhat disruptive level of noise, even for Taipei. I could hear a conversation between security inside of the barrier (they have drop down doors that close the bottom half of the entrance at night) but they never came outside. Usable minutes of footage for the night - zero. Fun - 10/10. I went home, and Lzyk was still awake, but didn't criticize me much. Then, I did some work, and then, I had some TB's.