And while I'm rambling on incoherently when I should be getting lunch: We've somehow managed to cause the mosquitoes in our place to mutate. One of lzh's more serious problems is that she's a mosquito magnet. Seriously, if you ever need mosquitoes, just...
An interesting post from Kevin: "Forever Kevin's Girlfriend", in which he describes a conversation between his wife and a former student who could not get the concept of Kevin's marriage into her head. The post and the comments, especially the first comment,...
So I went down to Gulou last night to meet an old friend who has just come back from wandering through the jungles of Laos for several weeks. We'll call him Frog. Why? Because he's French. Anyway, so Frog recommended a place apparently called "Balls"...
Now I really do have too much spare time. One class just finished, one class was given to some part-timer a couple of weeks ago, and the last class I have here will be given to another part-timer starting Monday. Which leaves me with only my weekly trip...
I don't know why. Something to do with the heat and humidity, I think. Makes me wonder how I survived the summer in Changsha.... by fleeing to Norway at the first opportunity, of course, but still. Somehow I was just really run down by the time I got...
It's all good. Yesterday I went down to BeiGongDa to meet my old boss and talk about going back there to work. When I arrived, my old boss said, "Long time no see". I said, "Yeah, too long." He said, "Fat!" Apparently getting married causes people to...
Lao Ma, my former student, is too good to me. He went back to his hometown this weekend, and as soon as he got back late this afternoon, he stopped by our place with a huge load of rice and a bottle of wine. His hometown, even though it's in the northeast,...
Walking past Chaoshifa supermarket yesterday on our way to getting some photos printed off, we saw the usual promotional stands outside the supermarket. But this time one of the stands was for one brand of yoghurt or another (I forget which brand, but...
I heard a noise that sounded like maybe a water blaster or some other kind of industrial-ish equipment somewhere nearby. In fact, it had been going off and on for 10 or 15 minutes. Then it suddenly sounded a lot closer and was joined by the sound of falling...
I have an irritating circadian rhythm. For some reason, the post-prandial dip, or whatever that feeling of drowsiness that generally hits you after lunch each day is supposed to be called, hits me at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, an hour or two later...
