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2007 in review
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Traveled over 20,000 miles (including roughly 40 hours of flights) from India to Boston to Beijing in the space of nine days. I plan to never do this again.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can't recall having made any resolutions, either last ( Read more... ) -
xin nian
So it's a new year. Personally, I am not a huge new year's person. It seems a bit arbitrary and stupid to me, like enforced merriment, which I never find particularly merry in the end. This year, we were meant to go to a dinner party, but I caught a flu the day before New Year's Eve, so instead we stayed at home. Jason drank five kuai beers while I ( Read more... ) -
slightly lamer than ice cube
On my way home tonight, I got that "It was a Good Day" song by Ice Cube stuck in my head, specifically the part about how today was like "one of them fly dreams" etc. Today WAS like one of those days! I got so much stuff done, I couldn't even believe it ( Read more... ) -
heart of darkness
So I've gotten my travel plans for Spring Festival more or less under control (after several days of rigorous internet research/paper procrastination). I may be meeting up with my intrepid pal Ben for half the trip, or travel alone, and then the other half will be with mummy, so it'll pretty much be half scabby backpacker style and half a bit ( Read more... ) -
another gone
So another weekend has gone. So so sad. Did Newton, in his physicsy wisdom, ever explain why the work week goes by so slowly and the weekend flies by? No? Oh ( Read more... ) -
oh mandy
Oh, I found out yesterday that Jason has never heard 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow. How is that even possible? -
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I am so ridiculously tired. The training this weekend was good, and actually made me feel positive about the whole examiner thing, even the travel aspects, but I really hate losing my two days to sleep in. Being up and out of the house by eight both mornings was not fun, especially followed up by a bunch of 8 AM starts for school. If I remember ( Read more... ) -
well.
Today was the first day all week where I left the house for anything besides hospital runs. I had to go proctor our English midterm at school. It went pretty well, all things considered. Only a couple of minor hitches (including a pretty key typo on the test that we somehow missed. Oops!). I felt awful for the kids, though. The canteen, where the ( Read more... ) -
chinese medicine
No, I don't mean the traditional type ( Read more... ) -
ni hao
We're in China ( Read more... )