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I may be slightly deaf for the next week
Totally worth it, though. Happy Year of the Tiger to one and all! 恭喜发财，虎年吉祥! -
Doggone it!
The latest in the continuing saga of bizarreness that is my apartment: it appears to be that time of year (or something) for my roommate's dog. Whenever I enter her line of vision, she runs up to me, wraps her front paws around my leg, and starts... well... humping me. If I raise my leg up toward her naughty bits (to try to shake her off - don't ( Read more... ) -
Fair moon, to thee I sing
The big fat moon in the sky tonight reminds me that I haven't updated this here thing since before the last full moon I saw, in a very different sky on the other side of the world. Partially, I guess I was sort of thinking that I get out of updating about what's been going on since I've actually seen a solid majority (I believe) of the people ( Read more... ) -
Patterns
Just went to write some e-mails and other forms of correspondence and realized that all four people to whom I was writing were women whose names begin with the letter A ( Read more... ) -
HRSFA trained me well
Last night, I almost sent the "Sorry, I'd love to, but..." text message, changed my mind, and sent the "Be right over" one. Sleep may be wiser than baking gingersnaps and sugar cookies while watching Tarantino films until 12:30 am, especially in the middle of tech week, but it is significantly less awesome ( Read more... ) -
That was a damn good first night.
Hanukkah party involved homemade latkes, applesauce, and rugelach, plus storebought sour cream, blintzes, jelly doughnuts and copious amounts of alcohol. And a homemade menorah. And karaoke after the party that ended... er... just now ( Read more... ) -
Krampustag
As a certain crazy Austrian of my acquaintance reminds me, beware when you leave the house today, lest terrifying goat-devils run up to you bearing rusty chains and beat you with twigs ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Beijing
It's part of the surreal nature of living in Beijing that you can gripe about the government causing snowstorms and making your commute uncomfortable without blinking an eye.
But yeah, as someone I was talking to recently (probably my mother or some HRSFAn) pointed out, I live a city with an honest-to-God Weather Modification Office.
As Randall ( Read more... ) -
Correction: winter is come
Whattaya know: the earlier weather reports were correct after all. Beijing woke up on the first day of November to find itself covered with a blanket of snow, with light drifts continuing to fall ( Read more... ) -
Winter is coming
Beijing's Indian summer has come to a close with a bang, it appears; after temperatures in the 60s and 70s most of the week, they plummeted today, and now a cold rain is coming down outside. At least the weather report is no longer forecasting snow for Sunday, which it was before ( Read more... )