Yesterday my bathroom drain overflowed again. I woke up and looked at it. The water was slowly eeking toward my "hallway." I made breakfast and watched the water while I ate. Then I called my school. When my landlord finally came over and "fixed" things, he forgot to tell me how to turn my hot water back on. If it's not one thing, it's another.

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I'm only writing this because I am bored. Bored with the internet, bored with Changchun and bored with my house. Oh, and I'm also avoiding thinking about classes on Monday. Bored with Changchun, yes I am. Wes and I have always been the foreigners who denounce OTHER foreigners for saying things like "There's nothing to doooooo in Changchun. Just ( Read more... )

This is one of those "You Know You've Been (BLANK) Too Long When..." in-joke lists. I am also sending it to everyone I know, so it's really a nice shorthand method of newslettering. A lot of it is cribbed from other Expat's lists and altered. But I have experienced or seen all of it at least once.

You Know You've Been In China Too Long When...1- A ( Read more... )

Love Poems
A Slightly Erogenous Newsletter

Baby,
You're like a clever similie this newsletter hasn't written yet.

My poetry is terrible as of late.

Today I was awakened at the barely legal hour of 9:30am by construction in the bedroom above my head. It would have been ok, I could have gone on to lucid dream until my alarm went off (set at ( Read more... )