My mom wants me to apply for a job teaching English at a Chinese college. Given that I have no experience teaching, and my limited Chinese is what bars me from applying to other, more interesting jobs, I say...WTF? Considering the ad was in a Chinese paper and written in Chinese, I'd say that a good, solid grasp of business Chinese is vital. ( Read more... )

Today I went to the ACC to work out and do a little studying. My home environment is not very conducive to focusing on my Japanese textbook, and so I ran through a couple of lessons while eating fish and chips. Damn, I'd forgotten how cracky my textbook was back at Exeter. Japanese for Everyone features Michael and Barbara Webb, two newcomers to ( Read more... )

I burnt my dinner to a crisp! .....So now the apartment smells like burnt crisp. Thank GOD the fire alarm didn't go off.

And in case you're curious, it was pasta. Me and burnt noodles go waaaay back, as Exonians can attest to. This is what I get for forgetting I'm in the middle of making dinner. *sigh*

So, like, that was a box of pasta gone. I ( Read more... )