I just saw my parents off on the airport shuttle. They're flying from Seattle to Vancouver; from Vancouver to Hong Kong; from Hong Kong to Nanjing. There they'll meet my mom's dad and brother, who've already flown in from Taipei, and a relative from the mainland who's called an uncle according to the Chinese system of relational terms but whose ( Read more... )

I went home Wednesday evening to visit my family for a few days; we got a call that night to tell us that my grandmother in Taiwan had passed away. Not really a surprise, and in some ways a relief. On the one hand, it's very easy to feel guilty: if only I'd been able to see her more, if only I'd tried harder to speak with her, if only she had ( Read more... )

( The saga continues )

Huh. My Visa bill this month is a big one--though not the biggest I've ever had--but when I subtract the things I'll be reimbursed for (ridiculously expensive phone for my brother, groceries, $200 plane ticket to Philadelphia), it's the smallest bill I've had in a while by a significant margin. That's kind of...nice ( Read more... )

Today went pretty well considering that I stayed up too late last night and got up too late this morning, and was consequently (through combined lack of sleep and coffee) tired as fuck through my first two classes. For my lunch break I tried a place I hadn't eaten before and had a sandwich and a (good!) latte, which woke me up, plus it was a really ( Read more... )

Several of my relatives from Taiwan are visiting and staying with my family right now, and today they all came up to see me and look at the campus and see my dwellings ( Read more... )

My period--and, consequently, cramps--just started, and here I am at work without my ibuprofen. Worst. Timing. Ever ( Read more... )

My sleep schedule's fucked up so badly its own mother would not recognize it. Which is largely because I have no impulse control, and will stay up until 6:00 (in the morning, no joke) reading things like this:

The Msscribe Story--which is nothing more and nothing less than THE best story, fiction or non-, that I have read in a while. My own affair ( Read more... )