I've been working out quite a bit lately, and I'm getting in good enough shape to set some new personal bests ( Read more... )

I just registered for UW classes, for the first time in a whole year. I almost forgot what a pain this process is. Hooray for begging professors for add codes... not ( Read more... )

http://nytimes.com/2005/05/11/opinion/11friedman.html
( Brussels Sprouts )

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/05/09/2003253811Read more... )

For, indeed, the paradox of Russia is that as life has become miserable in many ways, the economy has grown at an impressive clip. We can look back on this and begin to see a pattern that might be called Post-Totalitarian Stress Syndrome ( Read more... )

I just cooked myself sweet and sour pork from scratch (and it was really good, unlike the last time I tried), and watched The Graduate on DVD. Total cost? Less than four dollars. It's times like this that remind me how much I love China ( Read more... )

The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

It's a two-year, full time MA program that trains students in International Economics and International Relations, Development, or Area Studies, as well as foreign language.

Studying abroad while doing this program doesn't seem like an option [Oh yeah, there's the ( Read more... )

And I have a few ideas of ways to do it, as a student (because there's no way I'm doing it as an English teacher, and having a BA in Chinese doesn't mean I can get a good job in Taiwan ( Read more... )

Stop the Genocide in DarfurIt's estimated that 200 people per day are dying in the Darfur region of Sudan, because of the Arab Janjaweed militia's efforts to "change the demography of Darfur and make it void of African tribes ( Read more... )

On the night of the 14th, I took off for the little resort town of Sanya, on Hainan Island, at the southernmost tip of China. Lauren and I met up with Sara, Jonas, Brent and his twin brother, and a couple of friendly Canadians named Eric and Natalie. The lot of us spent five or so days lounging on the beach, getting sunburnt, playing in the water, ( Read more... )