I'm in Beijing! And I have registered and PKU, and Norman and I found an apartment! (Or more properly, a friend of Norman's family who lives in Tianjin found the apartment.) There are some issues to be resolved, mostly having to do with paying for said apartment (they want us to pay more than we actually have in China), but we'll work something out ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for China in three days. AAAAAUUUGHH ( Read more... )

I don't suppose I'll use this one very often, but I wanted to call attention to it because I like it, so there. It's something Leigh found as we were laying out study guides last October and trying to find pictures that fit them. Don't recognize the fine gentlemen? That there is Leonid Brezhnev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Erich ( Read more... )

Probably not the most disturbing thing up there, but it certainly ranks high ( Read more... )