Graduation!
The seniors are graduating tomorrow, as we all found out this morning. Classes are cancelled as a result, two weeks before finals and with one day's notice. Gee golly, I sure wish they'd told us this last week. Well, at least they told us at all. At the school where Dov and Meg were working in Shenzhen, they went to class to find the room empty, then got angry phone calls from their bosses, demanding to know why they hadn't been in class an hour earlier than normal, with absolutely no warning.
Troublesome as the lack of notice is here, it can always get worse.
We're working straight through the weekend, then we have a three day weekend... from Monday to Wednesday, which is the Dragon Boat Festival. It celebrates, if I am not mistaken, the suicide of the patriot Qu Yuan, who jumped into the river rather than surrender to enemy soldiers. The people threw rice into the river, so fish would eat the rice and not his body. Now to celebrate, people race dragon boats and eat steamed rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. Weird but true!
The ants are taking over my apartment. Tiny little black-brown ones, infiltrating the bathroom and bedroom, though they're expanding into the rest of the house too. Oh well. At least I only have four weeks left. Twenty seven days, not that I'm counting. Then they're somebody else's problem!
The weather's been oddly humid. Henan is usually so dusty and dry, with the yellow clay getting on everything (and that's why they call it the Yellow river, btw). Now with all this rain and humidity, it's a lot easier to keep the floors clean.
I tried to watch New Moon, out of pure masochism, but it's not up on Youku yet. That's probably a good thing, since if it's half as awful as the first one (Twilight), it will make me howl and shriek in the grips of utter despair. The sound of pure suffering might make Alex Upstairs worry.
I just realized that I'm going to miss Pride Boston. Oh no! All of you should go (yes, even the ones I don't know, or who live in not-Boston places) because Pride is incredible. Someone's got to tell me if the pony boys are back this year, and I definitely want pictures of the Bi pride float. According to the Bisexual Resource Ctr of Boston, it's the first time they'll have a Bi-centric float in the parade! And since they have churches, politicians, Brazilian men gyrating in white briefs, and drag queens of every shape, size and color, it's about time the bisexuals got a place too.
Dyke March is Friday evening/night, and the Pride march is Saturday morning, if I got my dates correct. Check the website first: http://www.bostonpride.org/parade.php
I'm here, I'm queer, and I'm missing my flamers. :(
Troublesome as the lack of notice is here, it can always get worse.
We're working straight through the weekend, then we have a three day weekend... from Monday to Wednesday, which is the Dragon Boat Festival. It celebrates, if I am not mistaken, the suicide of the patriot Qu Yuan, who jumped into the river rather than surrender to enemy soldiers. The people threw rice into the river, so fish would eat the rice and not his body. Now to celebrate, people race dragon boats and eat steamed rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. Weird but true!
The ants are taking over my apartment. Tiny little black-brown ones, infiltrating the bathroom and bedroom, though they're expanding into the rest of the house too. Oh well. At least I only have four weeks left. Twenty seven days, not that I'm counting. Then they're somebody else's problem!
The weather's been oddly humid. Henan is usually so dusty and dry, with the yellow clay getting on everything (and that's why they call it the Yellow river, btw). Now with all this rain and humidity, it's a lot easier to keep the floors clean.
I tried to watch New Moon, out of pure masochism, but it's not up on Youku yet. That's probably a good thing, since if it's half as awful as the first one (Twilight), it will make me howl and shriek in the grips of utter despair. The sound of pure suffering might make Alex Upstairs worry.
I just realized that I'm going to miss Pride Boston. Oh no! All of you should go (yes, even the ones I don't know, or who live in not-Boston places) because Pride is incredible. Someone's got to tell me if the pony boys are back this year, and I definitely want pictures of the Bi pride float. According to the Bisexual Resource Ctr of Boston, it's the first time they'll have a Bi-centric float in the parade! And since they have churches, politicians, Brazilian men gyrating in white briefs, and drag queens of every shape, size and color, it's about time the bisexuals got a place too.
Dyke March is Friday evening/night, and the Pride march is Saturday morning, if I got my dates correct. Check the website first: http://www.bostonpride.org/parade.php
I'm here, I'm queer, and I'm missing my flamers. :(