I need to use this in the near future, so I'm storing it here. I LOVE french fries, but I'm all too conscious of the negative health effects. Trans fats, bad carbs and good old fashioned American Grease puddles pooling in your insides. Baked French Fries are apparently entirely okay, from what I've read. Which seems surprising but I guess the ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like this is it, for now, China. You and I have had a very interesting relationship from the moment I've gotten here. As always, when I'm about to leave a place I start to become pretty introspective. Well, or about to arrive at place as well. Well, okay, pretty much all the time but especially when I'm about to leave a place. It ( Read more... )

Random edible treats discovered in alleys or parks or street corners. I'm really, really going to miss that, being the huge foodie that I am. I know where to find fried cicadas, plates of authentic steamed wontons, how to ask for the fried version with rice vinegar (super-yum!), kebabs of lamb that usually aren't cat meat, the best Chinese beer... ( Read more... )

Well, Xi'an was a hoot!

...Wait, I said Hainan, didn't I? Yes, well...Plans change. Repeatedly. At the absolute last minute, at the cost of some kuai, I decided to cancel my tickets to Hainan and instead go for Xi'an, which is somewhere I've been before, in fact. I decided Haikou just didn't have that much to offer, looked expensive, touristy and ( Read more... )

Ohhhh, my, my, my! It seems I just might have landed an excellent teaching opportunity here in China! I've been a bit...Disappointed with Disney English for a few weeks, as the office hours are just killer. 24 hours of various sorts of paperwork. Not going to rant here, because it IS what I signed up for, but...I think it's better if I move on. So ( Read more... )

Well, as hard as I tried, Xinjiang is just a bit too far out of my reach. So instead I'll be hitting the beaches of Sanya and chowing down on seafood for a week in what they call "China's Hawaii."

Oh darn. #tear

Hehe...Looking at hostels in the area now. Sanya has some interesting things going on. Apparently there's a place called Wuzhizhou Island ( Read more... )

 Disney English, and pretty much every school in China is off for the festivities of China's National Day, equivalent to our 4th of July. Well...More along the lines of the anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, only moreso. October 1st, 1949, Chairman Mao pronounced the founding of the People's Republic of China, heralding the final ( Read more... )

I'm here to write about...Nothing in particular. I've just let my journal collect so much dust, as I am wont to do every few months. But it's always nice to know in the back of my mind that it is still here.

Just like me. Still in China. Still doing the traveling English teacher thing, for a second year in a row. I'm happy for the most part. It's ( Read more... )

Greetings readers! I'm feeling much better these days...Ever since the "Friends-Only" post below that you may or may not be able to see, I've had a lot on my mind. And things have gotten better for me. Being at home, surrounded by people that know and accept me unconditionally has done a LOT in moderating my feelings of inadequacy and fear ( Read more... )

Things that have gone unremarked thanks to my laziness ( Read more... )