yesterday i went shopping in an ex-bomb shelter that my dad helped to dig! things are dusty and crowded in china, but everybody stays up all night to watch world cup and you can buy baby tomatoes on the street so it's a-ok.
Today I realized why history papers are so much easier to write than english papers: each MLA-style parenthetical citation takes up only a bit of lateral space, wheras every UChicago-style footnote takes up a whole line.