"Every time you order Sherpa's, an angel gets her wings..."
~ overheard at a bar. While drunk. Might have been me.                                      

( Read more... )

Good weekend everybody! :)

OMG OMG, Saturday's class was freakin' AWESOME. See, I spent the last 3-4 weeks trying to teach these guys how to make convincing arguments, use logic and creative thinking to debate certain topics. It's been like pulling TEETH trying to get them to participate because they're so damn hesitant.

This Saturday though, it was ( Read more... )

Oh thank GOD. Thanks to the vet-tacular bills of last month, we were running on fumes. FUMES I say! Last night it was crackers for dinner. I spent my last two kuai getting on the bus this morning.  We haven't been able to change the litter in the litter boxes for 6 days. The cats ate dog food last night because we ran out of cat food, and Ru had to ( Read more... )

What the hell - I'm trying again. This time using excerpts and snippets from real life, it's a semi-realistic, semi-fictional, mostly-accurate chronicles of me and Kat entitled  'Fanbrats in Shanghai.'

Basically documenting quotes, our dependence on caffeine, our inability to survive without Pokemon, Marvel comics movie-lusting, fanfic hunts, and ( Read more... )

Wednesday:  Met B for dinner, drinks and work talk re: management sessions (i.le, how to get mngmt to work with employees in a way that leaves everyone happy instead of quietly seething). We went to T and M on Zhongshan Bei Lu near Chifeng Lu, and I steadily worked my way through 5 whiskey sours. I was able to get home fine via taxi, though it was ( Read more... )

... when you answer the buzzer and get a personal 'Hi Mandy! It's Sherpa's delivery!' instead of just the company name.  Why no, I can't cook. If you've been foloowing me for any length of time, you should know this. Why yes I order take-out. Quite often. Shut up. DON'T JUDGE ME ( Read more... )

So because L is so freaking awesome, she managed to get me today off.  YAY! I meant to go in today anyway for a couple of hours to do some catch up. I was so tired I decided to have a quick nap before going in and I set my alarm for 1:00 (it was about 11:45). I woke up at 4:00 to the endless loop of Pokemon World (my alarm ringer). Oops! * Guess ( Read more... )

9:00 this morning, I'm ready to start typing up the LP's for one of our special schools out in Pudong after staying late with the team last night (6:50) to get them plotted out. Iget them typed up only to realize i have no internet access. Apparently today is the day I have to renew my service - a process which requires me getting my account code ( Read more... )

So it seems China's watchdogs are trying to block all the circumventor sites. It took me going through six different URL's to find one still working. Luckily, I still have about 15 more, plus new ones get set up at least once a week ( Read more... )

I bought tortillas, and made sweet and sour chicken wraps with mozzarella cheese and crispy lettuce for dinner. That was tasty, once I figured out how to roll the wraps so everything doesn't keep falling out ( Read more... )