I can't tell if I'm shivering right now because it's cold, because I haven't had enough coffee, or because I've been looking up mobile phone plans and not just for researching some far-off time in my future, but for THIS SATURDAY. It's probably mostly the latter ( Read more... )

I just have to say, before I do anything else, that this is my new favorite song. My gym instructor played it one day - quite out of character for him - and it's friggin' gorgeous. Yes at first I thought it was a cover of Chris Isaak but whatever. It's still gorgeous.
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1) Work! It's my last week and I'm super bored. Ami's so competent and excited to do everything that I've basically had her do all of my work. It's fantastic! But it also means that I have nothing to do but stare at the wall for a whole day. I definitely have to find something to do during the day tomorrow, because otherwise I will go nuts with ( Read more... )

Monthly update! Though I think it's been more like three weeks..? Whatever.

1) Work! I'm so close to the end I can taste it. I'm actually currently having some serious feelings regarding pointless bureaucracy and nobody is online for me to rage at, but setting that aside... I'm feeling pretty good about everything. My last two issues are planned, ( Read more... )

Happy New Year's everyone! I hope everyone's went well. Mine was spent at a newly-opened beer bar with a few of my friends, and it was lovely despite me spilling champagne all over some poor family. We walked all the way to another bar, and then home, and then spent a leisurely day doing nothing. We had a few days off and then had to work on Friday ( Read more... )

Celebrating Christmas so far away from home is weird for anyone, but celebrating it in China is completely different altogether. There'll be shops with Christmas decorations up, the occasional butchered Christmas song playing at the supermarket, and even the fruit shop gets into it with oranges wrapped in little Christmas boxes, but the only thing ( Read more... )

So today I feel like crap. My legs are killing me, but most importantly I have a jaw ache and I'm pretty sure my neck should not be as tender as it is. On Sunday I was pretty convinced I had tonsillitis, too, but that didn't eventuate. This is, of course, not because I've been eating badly or not getting enough exercise, but because I was out ( Read more... )

Man, life. Updating after leaving things for such a long time is really difficult ( Read more... )

First of all, belated Happy Year of the Rabbit, everyone! Or, in a really funny Chinglish pun: Happy New Year 兔 You! (兔 is the word for "rabbit", pronounced "tu". It's hilarious, I promise.)

I had a great one this year! At first I thought I would be all alone, but it turns out that waxrose's group of Canadian friends were being pretty active, and since ( Read more... )

Who the hell knows when I last actually updated, but here's what has been going on in the last month or so ( Read more... )