My computer seems to be ill again. The day before yesterday it refused to start for quite some time. All I could convince it to do when I pushed the 'on' button was to flash its lights once, check the DVD drive, then sit there with the fan whirring and...

Something I forgot to add the other day: For those of you who are familiar with the goodness that is 金百万/Jinbaiwan in Beijing, especially the super-goodness that is Jinbaiwan's 松俞西里 Songyu Xili (I may have the wrong character for 'yu'. Help.) branch,...

Last Friday afternoon I rushed up to Beijing . Last Saturday evening lzh left for two weeks training for her new job. The training was in Shanghai . Well, I tried to rush up to Beijing . My last class on Friday afternoon finishes at 2:30, which leaves...

Language, man...... So I've studied French, German, Russian and Chinese to various levels and for varying lengths of time. Sometimes it just fries my brain. So, being an English teacher in a programme that is supposed to provide quality, professional...