I hate the free hotel my work gave me. I mean, it's nice that there is a shower cubicle and that they provide you with separate hand soap and shampoo and body wash. It's nice there is hot water. But the staff are hopeless. They refuse to understand my spoken Chinese, even when i ask very simple questions like what day i'm supposed to check out. It' ( Read more... )

I am cold and i am tired and i am so fucking over looking at apartments ( Read more... )

The flight back here was hellish. On my leg from Shanghai to Toronto the lady at the checkin counter must have taken pity on me, because when i got on the plane i discovered i was in an exit row with a ton of leg room. Leaving Toronto i was relegated to a middle seat way at the back of the plane. But, hey, you can't win 'em all - 40% chance you're ( Read more... )

I got divorced officially officially today. I also got my Z visa so I can head over to China to work. I am exhausted from waking up at 4am to take the train into the city. I am fat from eating my second Canadian cheat meal - coney fries. I am dead from spending the last week under extreme stress, fearing my visa might be refused. I should celebrate ( Read more... )

So. This is upsetting ( Read more... )

May 12 - Day 4 - Land of Sand

Breakfast: "milk rice", canned fruit
Lunch: mystery gruel (meat scraps, lentils), stir fry pork, rice, mixed veg (cabbage, peppers, ramen noodles(!))
Dinner: "seafood stew" (shrimp, white fish, surimi in sweet'n'sour sauce), rice

Navigating Suez.

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I am wiped. This was an intense week ( Read more... )

This morning when i was looking for a drumming thing i found this great Youtube about some stretches you can do for tendonitis. I realized when i was doing these stretches i already have issues, probably from typing. At work i typed a lot more, but i was sitting at a desk - now i am almost always lying on my stomach on the bed, which can't be a ( Read more... )

Except in this particular house it's the dog, not the daughter that gets that privilege. Who drives home from work every lunch break to walk their dog? And not because you are using it as a way to fit some exercise into your day, but simply to go up the block and let him poop on someone else's lawn because apparently he's too good to walk out in ( Read more... )

In Canada your police check costs about $35, happens over the internet and more-or-less instantly. In California you need to write a short cover letter and send $32. For the FBI you sign a cover letter [provided online] and send $18. In Australia you have to fill in a 6 page application form where none of the form fields have space for non- ( Read more... )