Venial Sin

Well, lets see. I’m in a town (village on steroids, really), where the primary means of transporation is by water-buffalo. I’m teaching 120 students, every day from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. 30 of those students are girls, all of whom wear a full-body veil (hijab anyone), and refuse to actually look at me while teaching. Apparently it’s un-Islamic to make eye contact with a male. This is only further complicated by the fact that the daily average temperature is [...]

I met strong>Sarah tonight. And DAMN. Girl is FIERCE. Not to mention unbelievably hot. Mr. Whoever You Are Who Broke Up With Her, you should book yourself a room at the Regrets Inn, because you will, in all likelihood, have a LOOOOONG stay there.

On Sunday morning, yours truly will be flying off for two weeks to teach at a school in a semi-rural city/village hybrid in the Punjab (one of Pakistan’s four provinces). Amusingly enough, you should all be grateful for this, because I will be instructing students at (wait for it…wait for it…) an all-boys boarding school. I’m grinning from ear to ear right now. Can anyone say “cat, meet pigeons”? My track record for meeting cute boys at such locations (I’ve [...]

I was sent this via e-mail earlier today, and for some reason, still unbeknownst even to me, decided that it MUST be shared with all of you. Forgive me, but it’s priceless. And kind of disturbing at the same time…

Check out the FAQ listed on left under “Original Sin” to see the updates there. Will update the Agony Aunt section in a few days as well. Massively rushed for time, what with letters to write and a trip to the boonies to take next Monday. Am losing my mind.

And the winners are… 1) Ryan, from http://ryanstask.blogspot.com 2) Sarah, from http://my-soliloquy.blogspot.com 3) Kristie, from http://goddessink.blogspot.com 4) Anna, from http://anna.typepad.com 5) Tin Tin. Who’s not really from anywhere, from what I can tell. With the exception of Ryan, who’s already e-mailed me, the rest of you should send your mailing addresses to sinner_central@yahoo.co.uk. I don’t mind if you want to specify in your e-mails what exactly you want me to focus on (decide for yourselves how vague you’d like me [...]

I am so incredibly hungover right now that even my eyelashes hurt. In the last 24 hours, I’ve thrown up water, soda, juice, and about eleven years’ worth of meals. My head is still pounding, and I’m only typing in the hopes that the movement of the cursor across my laptop screen will cause my brain to shut itself down in order to prevent a grand mal seizure. This is why we don’t have close to 30 drinks across the [...]

A ex-professor of mine, apparently just got married. In and of itself, this would not occupy my thoughts were it not that he is gay, an ex-Jesuit (but still Catholic) priest, and in almost all six of the classes I’ve taken with him across the course of my time at college, argued fairly vociferously against gay marriage, against normalising. And now that he’s married (something I found out via e-mail), to someone whom I don’t know, I find myself seething.

Due to a surfeit of chocolate in my bloodstream, I’ve decided to offer 5 lucky people the chance to receive hand-written letters from me, on any topic they so choose. The letters will not be terrifically long (a couple of hundred words at most), but they will be on pretty paper and scribed in rather nice handwriting. So how will I choose these 5 fortunate individuals? I haven’t a clue yet, but I’m working on it. No, wait, inspiration just [...]

That summer in Seattle (or more accurately, within driving distance of Seattle) only became progressively more dull as time went by. Oh, who the hell am I kidding? It didn’t BECOME dull, it WAS dull. It was so dull that for all of three weeks, I focused on trying to get a moustache-brandishing mid-40s farmer into bed. I spent my time in lesbian bars, singing karaoke and dancing on top of the bar, accidentally singeing my fantastic white linen pants [...]