gloria came it at like 8:40 this morning. i was walking around in jeans and a bra and all i said was 'you're here early'. i think she had a heart attack, it was pretty funny. she just said 'uuhh'. hehe thats what she gets for sneaking up on me.

talk about a rollercoaster weekend. friday night rocked, saturday day sucked, saturday night was alright, sunday sucked royally. but at least i got pictures! check out www.picturetrail.com/laurelmj when i've updated them (i haven't done it yet). so here's a recap ( Read more... )

excerpts from my conversation with angela earlier today ( Read more... )

here is a list of actual graduate degrees offered in britain that are slightly ridiculous (and my own comments after them). keep in mind they are grad schools in top u's in britain ( Read more... )

1. on tv today i saw an ad for a tv movie called "the city of SARS"... looked very dramatic, even had a scene that looked like an outbreak with nurses running around everywhere. very comforting.

2. i tricked gloria into putting an anti-communist sentence into an email she just wrote. i hope she gets caught :-P

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7pm on a quiet shanghai evening. the girl goes into her room from the office (a big 2 step commute) and turns on the light, only to find that it now gently flickers on and off. 'oh great', she thinks to herself, after another frustrating day with frustrating people. She realizes she needs to clean her room before any repair people can enter, so she ( Read more... )

i'm a bitch. at least when the situation calls for it. like yesterday when my wallet was stolen with a lot of money and my credit card, i was about ready to kill someone. literally, i wanted to crack open some heads. but i found myself not really focusing on this asshole who opened my bag in broad daylight but on how stupid i was for not paying ( Read more... )

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seriously. almost every day you hear stories about people who fell out of a tree when they cut down the branch they were standing on, or something akin to that. hospital workers telling stories about various items being stuck in various places (NOT belonging to children). a woman trying to use a million dollar bill to buy things at wal-mart. ( Read more... )

some interesting if rather irrelevant numbers related to me living in shanghai ( Read more... )