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

1) in xiamen for work. gorgeous city. would live here if didn't fear boredom re: the arts ( Read more... )

1) australia has no government! woo! first hung parliament in seventy years and PERSONALLY i blame the fact that everyone is getting too middle of the road. they can blame campaign advertising and mismanagement until they're blue in the face but honestly, labor and liberal were too close on a lot of things that there was very little setting them ( Read more... )

It's time for a good old-fashioned list of stuff I've done!

1. Went to Hebei province for work. It had to do with kindergartens, and we met lots of government officials and education types, but the thing I couldn't get out of my mind was the name of the city was Handan. If you emphasize the first 'n' too much it almost sounds like Hanadan. Yep, I ( Read more... )

Some follow-up from last week's post first!

1) Andrew Bird was amazing. Read my review here, even though the writing of it leaves something to be desired as I wrote it on my iPhone. However, it was great, and I really like the people I went with - all new friends I met through a girl named Kristen, who I met through Leslie ( Read more... )

HOLY FUCK JESUS OH MY GOD. Life is busy. That's all. Nothing exciting.

So here's a quick rundown of last week, because I haven't even written it into my diary yet.

1) Japanese Lessons
Still going well! ( Cut for some boring grammar student crap I blathered on about. )