So it looks like dinner tonight is gonna be... steamed sweet potatoes and instant noodles. Because apparently I am even too lazy to walk 10 minutes down the street and get some barbecue stuff, and oatmeal is for breakfasts. Needless to say, being in China changes the parameters of the "what do I have in the house?" food game a bit. I started to ( Read more... )

I can't figure out which is worse, sucking it up and conceding that your Chinese vocabulary isn't very good, or trying to explain--using said limited vocabulary--that you're usually at least a bit better than this, if only you hadn't just had so much beer... ha. I guess that would make this both my first post from Qingdao and my first drunken post ( Read more... )

I am leaving for China on Tuesday. How positively terrifying. Or exciting. Or both. We'll see.

It seems I'm finally grown-up enough for Jane Austen.

(Only partly tongue-in-cheek!)

Breaking livejournal silence (which has really the silence of laziness, nothing more drastic) to say that it looks like I actually will be going to China in a few weeks. Perhaps I'll start using this a bit more again when I have Exciting Life in Foreign Countries (okay, one country) to chronicle. We shall see. Right now I am waiting to get the ( Read more... )

Done.

With Reed.

Forever. Holy shit.

(well, except for the library fines. and the no-doubt excruciatingly dull graduation ceremony. BUT.)

Eeep!

I hate timed essays. There! I said it. I wish I were (was?) done.

My mom is probably on the ground in PDX by now (she's coming out for the weekend and graduation). I bet she will take me to eat tasty food later. That's comforting, I guess.

Still! Grr!

Bad: boyfriend with stomach bug means we both get to sleep pretty late (but at least I wasn't the one throwing up ( Read more... )

If I have to walk through a HAIL STORM to get to my thesis orals, I am gonna be surly.

This weather is on notice! It has half an hour to blow itself out. Otherwise there will be consequences. Or something.

Am reading this book, and considering maybe reviewing it from my junior-cub-Sinologist's perspective when I'm done, b/c I liked the first one but was a little nervous about what would happen when they started traveling around in a place and time I happen to have studied rather a lot (so far so good, actually). However, I'm so overcome with ( Read more... )