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Monthly Archives: April 2009

weird cell phone harrassment

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Ok, I’m starting to get a little freaked out by this. A couple of nights ago, I got over twenty blank text messages from the same Nanjing cell phone number, which I didn’t recognize. I figured that a student probably had my number and just sat on his/her phone or something. But then the same [...]

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second day of solitude and it’s starting to take its toll

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Well, to be fair, I haven’t had absolutely zero social contact - I did more recording this morning, and I went to the store to buy milk for the last box of mac and cheese that I’m not sure I’m going to get to eat because the kitchen’s soaking wet and I’m afraid to boil [...]

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Home Alone!

Friday, April 10, 2009

This weekend I’m running around China completely unsupervised for the longest time since I moved here (previous record was maybe, oh, six hours). I’m TOTALLY eating nothing but super expensive imported pop-tarts, raiding the grown ups’ liquor cabinet and re-upping the bottles with water so it’s not immediately obvious I’ve broken in, turning up the [...]

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a fun game

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ok, here’s the game. I’ll give you several statements*, and you guess whether they came from the 1954 American Comics Code or from the 2009 statement (released on 3/30 as a highly suspect gift to Chris upon his twenty-sixth birthday) from the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and TV. I’ll put the answers in [...]

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