Ok so I've got some Tibet pictures up.


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So, my apologies. I may have overreacted about this gall thing. For some reason I mixed up gall and kidney stones. It made me think though. The food here isn't the 3 avocadoes a day with a fresh green salad as I was used to eating in Los Angeles. Chinese food is pretty bloody unhealthy. I have to request no MSG and oil every time I eat; which ( Read more... )

So I went to the doctor yesterday. It's the funniest story, it really is. I needed to get a physical examination for the annual reevaluation of my visa. So Feng calls me at 8:00 in the morning (a grotesque hour for me) and tells me he's waiting downstairs in a car ready to leave for my exam. They certainly don't believe in appointments here. ( Read more... )

The death toll for this catastrophe is supposed to pass 100,000. It's crazy. I feel as though I should do something, so Robert and I have been looking into going down south for our winter break and volunteering for Unicef. So far, no one (out of the 9 people I've emailed) has been any help. I don't really want to donate any money because those ( Read more... )

So Chinese people celebrate Christmas. It seems as if they took the parts of Christmas that we both love and hate (Santa Claus, presents, commercialism, drinking) and threw out all of the God stuff. I'm unsure about the relevance of the holiday without God, but at the same time I don't quite enjoy dogmatic prayer and separationalism; so I'm ( Read more... )

So I guess my last entry was never published. What a bummer... the secrets to the end of the rainbow exposed through the forest of the trees... not to mention details of my magnificent birthday party (12/8). So anywho, to sum it all up, it was a great time to everyone who was exposed. A hot pot restaurant - Nathan drinking a bit too much beer - ( Read more... )

So, my fine livejournalists, I have a bit of a story to tell. This evening I performed in front of the largest audience that's graced my life. Man was it cool ( Read more... )

So here and there I've been thinking a lot. I've had a lot of time lately. Spacing myself far and away from those specks of sand revolving around my life hither and thither. I am but a clam basking in the indifference of people about. I walk, and walk in strides. Past and past. A rolling stone gathers no moss but who wants to be covered in a ( Read more... )

Here I am now understand that I'm still here much as much further from everything as I always seemed to be. I hope that you can go where you can go and you'll find that there's another day waiting for you at the end of this one; stretching it's limps up towards the sky following the only thing it's ever been taught through and through and through ( Read more... )

So there I was, my friends, in the middle of a influenza, coughing up this and that. I found myself in a fleamarket-sized drugstore in downtown Taiyuan. I needed something for these accute symptoms and needed something fast. After some wandering of the great aisles I came to a shelf of cough syrups. Dextromethorphan ...this looks nice. I seem ( Read more... )