Damn, I’m having a nice night. By the end of this week, I was starting to feel like I was going to absolutely explode, all spikes protuding and all bile spewing forth. But I had the sense to give myself a total night off, and now I’m feeling just fine. I had the bright idea […]
The torch came through Nanjing today, practically right outside my school. The powers that be dictated that class would remain in session, which was a joke - I trotted down to my 10:00 to find four unhappy looking students in a class of twenty-five. Chris was out of class, though, and he got pictures, […]
(Oh you best believe I bought the opportunity for ridiculous dressup pictures…)
I graduated from Carleton College, which is a small liberal arts school in rural Minnesota. I clarify this because so few people in the states have ever heard of it. The conversation usually goes like this:
“Where’d you go to school?”
[brightly] “Carleton!”
[blank stare]
“It’s in Minnesota.”
[further blank stare until the other person comes up with the only […]
First of all, clearly, I’m still alive. It was weird being on the other end of that social phonemenon that causes people to make an instant connection between a catastrophe and the one person they know anywhere remotely near it. I was really touched by the concern, but WOW is Sichuan a long way away […]
I am a RAGING hypochondriac, and you’d think that being aware of my condition would somewhat alleviate it, but no. I’m the girl who had her roommate drive her to the ER late at night due to swollen lymph nodes that I managed to convince myself were rapidly developing masses which would eventually block my […]
Well, it’s Tuesday, and as a coworker put it, it’s like vacation never happened. However, I’ve got two new classes this term, I’ve lost the horrible IELTS classes that I had no idea how to teach and constituted five extremely painful hours of my workweek, and I’ve got most of my afternoons off. I’m happy […]
Ok, we took over 800 pictures and I would be being extremely unreasonable if I expected you to read everything I just wrote, but it’s here if you want it- first there’s an overview of where we stayed, and then it’s chronological. And if you want a better written version of the whole thing, chris […]
The island of Boracay is about 7 km long and shaped like a drumstick. White Beach covers most of one side of the skinny leg part (Bulabong Beach is on the other side – maybe a six minute walk if you’re taking your time). White Beach is a Resort Area, which emphatic caps, and there’s […]
We woke up on Thursday sunburned, blistered, and sore, and couldn’t even convince ourselves to go for a last swim. So we went out for breakfast at Paradise Grill (decent, relatively cheap breakfast stuff – bacon, pancakes, eggs, etc.), and then checked out of our hotel. We got a tricycle guy to take us to […]