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forced relaxation
Friday, May 30, 2008
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 […]
Here are some pictures.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
(Oh you best believe I bought the opportunity for ridiculous dressup pictures…)
college, characters
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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 […]
back to work
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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 […]
filipino monsters
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ok, the Philippines have some of the best monsters I’ve come across in a while, with the coolest monster names ever. Here are my favorites (this is all from skimming wikipedia which is thankfully unblocked at the moment).
First up, and perhaps most famous, the aswang. “Aswang” is a bit of a catch-all name that refers […]
a burning question
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ok, this got brought up in casual conversation and it perplexed me almost as badly as turtle sex used to: how do bats poop? They’re hanging upside down, so how do they do their business without getting it all over their adorable fuzzy little persons?
Here is the answer, and here is the source:
Roosting upside down […]
Madame White Snake
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Ok, after about twenty minutes of very superficial web reading, I found a Chinese story that I absolutely adore. Here’s my mildly embellished paraphrase:
During the Song Dynasty, there was a white snake demon named Bai SuZhen. While the average Chinese demon spent his or her time wreaking havoc amongst gullible villagers, Bai SuZhen spent hers […]
Other People’s Wedding Pictures
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
We went up Purple Mountain this weekend to enjoy the obscenely gorgeous weather, where we discovered that last Saturday was apparently National Sit in the Park and Be Freaking Adorable Day. Also, at one point we counted eight wedding photo shoots going on (and there could have been more). You couldn’t walk ten feet without […]
a little sunshine
Thursday, March 6, 2008
BAM. I am having an awesome week. Here are some of the awesome things that have happened to me this week:
I’m now making more money.
We’re having ridiculously perfect spring weather.
Remember that televised Spring Festival ordeal? Hey, guess who just got 500 kuai dropped in her unexpecting hand over that.
My Friday classes are canceled.
Some of my […]