Dear Summer Santa,

All I want is a man about 24 to 28 years old. Great sense of humor, tolerant, and a master linguist (Korean/Chinese/Japanese) who also dabbles in marble sculpture. Extensive knowledge of classical and popular western literature a must. Violin or piano virtuosity a plus. Ability to dance not necessary, urge to dance *anyway* ( Read more... )

After a year of asking, my techie dude finally spent all of five minutes in my office installing the IME that allows me to type in Chinese on my PC.

This means I am very close to becoming like every other young LJ female who can type Chinese. It's only a matter of time before I start posting song lyrics. All things have drawbacks.

1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
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Choose Your Own Wednesday Night Adventure! Begin at any of these points unless you're worried about continuity.

1. The Frontal Lobe

• Located in front of the central sulcus.
• Concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement (motor cortex), emotions, and problem-solving.

Thanks, random science website!

5. Overall Expository ( Read more... )

The day I fell bored and realized suddenly, hey, I have a whole TRAIN at my disposal and can go anywhere I want, I was on a train to Haerbin when a friend of mine and fellow teacher (Wang Kai) who owns a deer farm called me.

Do I want a summer job? I thought, gawd, I do not want to teach brat children for a summer. But I asked anyway. And thus I ( Read more... )

The google image meme (lifted wholly from autophobe11 ( Read more... )

Mentor: In Homer's Odyssey, Mentor was a wise old friend of Odysseus who tookover as a surrogate father to Odysseus' son Telemachus when Odysseus sailed off to the Trojan War. Mentor was so respected by his young sprout that the Goddess Athena periodically took over Mentor's body when she had her own advice to give Telemachus. One who is Mentored: ( Read more... )

While native Chinee in America© get shipped back to China to be executed for embezzlement, and American© soliders do exactly what soldiers have been doing since time immemorial and America© continues to be mortified by it, the relatively unimportant world of American literature nurtures a new breed of author.

Stream of Consciousness!™ writing was ( Read more... )

Taking a cue from angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com:


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