so i took a little family vacation last weekend with my mother, brother, and sister down to holly grove, arkansas to visit my mother's father, who is also my last living grandparent. never heard of holly grove, arkansas? well, it's a town of about 800+ and boasts a town square with its own post office! but to eat you have to go to a nearby town. ( Read more... )

i now work in a basement medical chart filing room for 8 hrs a day. working in an office is difficult for me, because of that 3 year experience at that other place. yeah, i have my favorite pen, my bad internet sneaking habits, my lunch routine, but its all too familiar and unsettling. all of those paranoid fears are coming back about people and ( Read more... )

its been a long while. my mother got married this past weekend and that seems the only thing on my mind besides being unemployed, single, and friendless in this town. i have the opportunity to go to atlanta and live at my godmother's studio. i really dont know what to do, really. living with my sister is sucky and i really cant see myself having a ( Read more... )

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its been a while since ive posted, mainly because its been a little drab around here. more hot pots, lots of rain, lots of people staring, jialing says shes not gay, etc. etc ( Read more... )

went to shanghai this weekend! what a trip. first thing i did was get a 2 hour full body massage for 10 dollars. yep, 10 dollars. it was worth every penny or kuai. i then got sick again, hung out with hannah (http://huixingzhen.livejournal.com/ ) and her gf chris, who are the most perfect hostesses, in their lovely downtown apartment. the next day ( Read more... )

i had the pleasure of attending a huoguo dinner, where a big pot is laid on top of a gas grill and soup is boiled. At different intervals, any and every kind of vegetable, meat, noodle i have never eaten is placed into this hot pot that is separated into two sections, one is hot and spicy, the other not so. i ate some bamboo (i didnt know that was ( Read more... )

its time to post some pictures, so here is one of my school:


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in class today, we were playing the introduction game and we got to this guy, we'll call him bill, who said, "hello, my name is bill. i like to eat monkey ( Read more... )

today i was minding my own business taking one of those chinese lessons online and i get this knock on my door and its the headmaster and a couple of her minions. as i stand, they started to gasp as they look toward my feet. so i didnt have any shoes on. or socks. whoops. i guess thats bad. so i quickly recover and lunge for my slippers. the next ( Read more... )