Near the end of my second week alone in Taiwan I decided to make the most of my day off and do something Justin would probably hate. I got up early and went to Guandu, which is a town just south of Danshui that may or may not be part of Taipei City. I went first to see the 17th-century temple (these are not my pictures, by the way, since I don't ( Read more... )

For the last 2 weeks (and for the next four months) I've been going to Taichung, the city in the middle of Taiwan, to teach. The kids are fantastic, I like the school, and, most of all, I like only being in the Taipei office 3 days a week. I go to Taichung twice a week, and spend the majority of those work days in transport (1 hour high speed train ( Read more... )

It is Chinese New Year again, and this time I am able to give the appropriate holiday greeting in actual Chinese ( Read more... )

For those of you interested in working in Taiwan this summer, ( here's more info. )

My bosses want to hire you! They begged me to get some workers today, and I want to beg you in turn to come and make my life more fun ( Read more... )

OMG MY MUSCLE ARE GROWING SO BIG

SO BIG

They don't even hurt any more.

"I agree that we often appreciate only until we have lost them. Literature, history, and current events provide ample evidence to that we often appreciate things only when we lost them. We only see the value in things and display gratitude only when we have lost them ( Read more... )

hey, guess what: at least 40% of the qualing history juniors are big queers! weird, huh? plus we have two (openly, definitely) queer profs, which is more than our fair share ( Read more... )