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getting back on the speaking circuit
...the work might be lame, but at least it earns oodles of money for little-to-no-effort.
however, I never realized how this skirt really makes me look quite tarty, in the moulin rouge kinda way (but then again, maybe its the boots that do that).
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Men arrested for murdering "ghost" brides
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(trying not to laugh so hard that tea spurts out my nose)
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博士茶 (Rooibos Tea)
Due to the influence of my fabulous Viennese friend (she was born in South Africa to Austrian and English parents) I've really started to get into rooibos tea again. It goes quite well with my homemade uber-healthy and uber-yummy banana nut muffins, especially with some honey.
my current brand of choice
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four and twenty blackbirds
“The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds” by Neil Gaiman
good story, would make a good short film
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I'm not sure if I've shared with y'all yet my theory on Traditional Chinese Medicine (really should get off my lazy arse and write that treatise that I've always been meaning to write). I'm sick with the Beijing Plague again, and this time ( Read more... ) -
Chinese erm, funnies?
yes, I realize that my translations are crap, but thats because I don't really care, and in fact won't translate all of these little jokes. Some of them are mildly amusing, some of them seem like they're translations of jokes I've heard before back home, and some of them I just don't get. I'm definitely in agreement with bokane on the general death of ( Read more... ) -
young media
http://www.danwei.org/newspapers/when_corruption_investigations_1.php
After the revolution, the news media faced a new test. With the war over, how was the media to express its individuality; how could it continue to show off its strengths as a mouthpiece? At the end of March and the beginning of April, 1950, the General Press Administration of ( Read more... ) -
JSTOR access?
to my friends in college...
does anyone have a library with a JSTOR account? I know that UNC did, and I had access to it when I was a student, but now... alas, I'm left wanting. How can I be a proper geek if I can't access materials that I want at will? hmmm...?
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