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It's not all decorated yet, but it's a home. The archive should be trickling back in soon.

I'm not actually going to start updating this thing. I just got tired of seeing the Dongying photos on the top of the journal when I come here to read all my friends' stuff ( Read more... )

The four main ingredients of culture are food, work, sex and entertainment. The one that fascinates me the most, I must admit, is food. Food is the easiest to appreciate without language and language takes a lot of work. Work is unpleasant.


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People want to know, what's Dongying like? How does a foriegner get along in it? What's the feel of the city? For the answers to these questions it's best to go to the Expat's Guide to Dongying.As useful as The Expat's Guide is, there is, alas, something missing from its pages. The feel is just a little off. This is a lack that I can very ( Read more... )

I was lent an old issue of Fortune magazine with an article on little emperors. The article was an excellant piece of culture reporting and I think it fairly nailed the odd universe of the new middle class Chinese children, whose every want is gratified and who are expected to pull an atlas's weight ( Read more... )

So obviously I'm failing at the whole livejournal thing. I'm having trouble enough posting to one blog. I do still come here to read other people's stuff. But from now on all updates are posted to http://www.crumpled.com/brackish/. Right? yah.

Dani is not a girl who minces words.

Neither is my sister.

My ears are still a little ringy. The inside of lip got punctured. I have a bruise on my arm. I am hungover, and I may have significantly worsened a cold ( Read more... )

I have been neglecting livejournal lately. I have been neglecting bloggin lately, but especially livejournal.

Let me briefly summarize.

*My roomates are married. They are officially unveiling the veil to the world in june.
*Another roomate, sloppymuppet, is broke. So he is moving out. Plus he hates El Cerrito. I kinda do too. He will be missed ( Read more... )

Occasionally a coworker commits an act of such heroic stupidity that you doubt that you'll ever see anything like it again ( Read more... )