God please don't do this to me!!! I woke up this morning, logged on to check email and things were slooooow. I made a note to reset the router and decided to call my grandparents instead to wish them happy holidays. But in the middle of my phone call back to the U.S., I got cut off. At first I figured I hit a wrong button on the phone, but after ( Read more... )

Now that's lame....I took this stupid quiz to find out if I am younger or older in spirit than my actual physical age...and look at the "brillant" thing it comes up with ( Read more... )

I know I normally like to dispense advice, but now I need advice ( Read more... )

This article should be given to every year-one Chinese student:

Why is Chinese so Damn Hard?I know that's evil...I know that the guy is talking like a typical arrogant American (and he admits it too)...but dammit, it's all true! And I feel so happy that a fellow sinologist has come out of the closet to say the truth. The truth is that, with the ( Read more... )

Damn you David for making find yet another way to procrasinate on my REAL work ( Read more... )

Well, I have finally stopped dreaming of floods and dead bodies. But I feel very guilty about this next dream. I ate an entire baby white elephant. It had been roasted to crispy prefection over a fire pit. And guess what? It tasted like chicken. But I had this feeling in the dream, and still now...that I was doing the "wrong thing." I ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while and I have been having some weird dreams lately. Ever since Katrina hit, I have been having frustrating dreams of flooding and not being able to do what I want. Last night I dreamed I was messing around with the gas pipe in our house. There were two handles on it and I didn't know which one to turn on or off. I was ( Read more... )

I thought this article on a recent peasant revolt in China was quite well-written.  From the vivid descriptions, you can really imagine what it must have been like.  The article is also really interesting in light of the politics class we had a few weeks ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/washpost/for_chinese__peasant_revolt_is_rare_victory;_ylt= ( Read more... )

My whole life revolves around writing my thesis at the moment. I lazily wake up in the late afternoon, get on the computer to check email and what not. Stroll to the bathroom while my roommate say "Good afternoon!" Then I go through the dilemma of whether I should eat immediately because I am hungry or wait until dinner time like normal people ( Read more... )

I dreamed that Andrew was "back". He had missed his flight and was back at the apartment in the evening. He said he wasn't too sure what next flight he was going take. Good thing no one had moved into his room already ( Read more... )