Today was an utterly useless day. Bleh. And with only a few more days in Chongqing, that was uselessness I could ill afford. I'm not going to have anywhere near my original target number of interviews; while this is not the end of the world, it's not great either. It's a good thing Chongqing is only a chapter of my thesis rather than the whole ( Read more... )

I wonder if, when I walk around, there's a big neon sign over my head, visible to everyone but me, that reads, "Clueless foreigner - please advise." It would certainly explain things ( Read more... )

(I felt that, given the title of the journal, a bit of alliteration was appropriate.)

Chinese muzak is weird. Today at the wonton restaurant in the supermarket where I ate dinner, the muzak was a really strange arrangement of Ode to Joy. At the same supermarket yesterday (where I bought a big thing of eight-treasure tea 八宝茶 that has been making me ( Read more... )

This entry will contain a lot of random thoughts.

Songs I've been listening to a lot recently that I'd love to see as Notes small ensembles:Goodbye, Old Girl (Damn Yankees) - tempted to do this one myself, either the first part as a solo or the whole thing with a freshman (because there will be freshman guys, right ( Read more... )

So they do warn you that Chongqing hotpot is hot, even hotter than ordinary Sichuan hotpot (leaving aside, as I must do at the moment to maintain my sanity, the question of whether Chongqing hotpot should be considered a subset of Sichuan hotpot). So I was prepared for it to be scorching.

What they don't warn you is that it's cumulative, and it ( Read more... )

We've moved! No longer are we in Luoyang, the capital of Taishun county; we're now in the much smaller town of Sixi (Four Streams), near a lot of cool stuff ( Read more... )

I'm writing this from the middle of a typhoon! Okay, maybe "middle" is a bit overrated - I think it's actually passing over Fujian, and we're actually just getting the leading edge here in southern Zhejiang - but it definitely is coming down pretty hard. Whee ( Read more... )

Remember.

I have no idea if I will ever have to choose between Chinese universities to study at for a while, but if so, there is a factor that must be taken into consideration ( Read more... )

Yeesh, it's late. Bad Cody, procrastinating online until it's past your bedtime.

I just wanted to mention that I discovered today that the Chinese word for dinosaur is konglong, meaning (approx.) terror dragon! That's so much more awesome than our word.