I woke up Thursday morning and reached for my glasses, which crumpled in my hands and I heard the almost inaudible sound of a screw bouncing onto the floor and onward into an unknowable eternity of unfindable objects. I acted fast - stumbled to the office and started frantically applying Scotch tape while weighing in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last Friday, I finally had to go in for my health check - it’s technically a visa requirement, even though I dodged it the first time around. I’m relatively sure that the whole health check is mostly just an excuse for an AIDS test, but it also involves x-rays, an ultrasound, dental and vision checks, [...]
Sunday, September 28, 2008
This probably isn’t going to be very interesting for anyone but family, but Chris and I went for a walk and took some pictures of our neighborhood. I was waving my camera around and indiscriminantly clicking, so some of them are a little blurry, but here are the highlights.
Here’s our building. I guess it doesn’t [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
Our apartment building just got a shiny new silver gate. Gates were the bane of our existence while we lived on campus - if memory serves me correctly, there were at least eighteen that had to be hopped, several eyeless, soulless ferrymen who had to be paid off with special silver coins emblazoned with the [...]
Ok, so tomorrow I’m getting on a plane to go back to the states to see family and friends, drink tap water and cherry coke, eat real Mexican food, buy conditioner meant for my freakish foreign hair, take bubble baths after eight months of standing showers, freely talk to strangers without having to struggle for [...]
We’ve developed a raging addiction to ice cream bars called Magnums. And yes, they do have a sultry female on the packaging shooting a come-hither look. The logo is Desire, 2008. And yes, the size is about what you’d expect from the name. And it’s just funny to say, “ok, I’m going out for some [...]
It’s been a pretty eventful week. We got a surprise three day weekend, and decided that if we wanted to move off campus, it would pretty much be our only chance to do it. And we REALLY wanted to get off campus. I don’t recommend living five floors above your office and two above your [...]
Ok, first of all, some boring grammar stuff from class. You can skip that if you want to scroll down for the bathroom stories.
Today I had a student come to me to discuss menstrual issues, and another asked for dating advice. Apparently, I’m THAT teacher (menstrual issues: the poor girl was concerned that western people [...]