Let me just say up-front: my main blogging nowadays happens on twitter. I put more words into twitter than livejournal, wordpress, and facebook combined. The sheer volume is ridiculous and embarrassing.

The thing is, I like the speed of it, the feeling of synchronicity. It's like having an IM with everyone and noone, at the same time. Shouting ( Read more... )

oh my god I'm so mad. The boss at the kindergarten pulled me aside when I came in this morning, and told me I'm now teaching a different class. It's K2 instead of K1, and it's ESL instead of Pre-E, and I'm not allowed to say goodbye to the kids in my old class. My K1 (three-year-olds) apparently cried all day with the sub, because no one told them ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I don't update this very much anymore? Which is dumb. I read my lj flist daily, often more. I check it before I glance at tumblr, even! (The syntax: gmail, twitter, lj, tumblr, jf, then random fucking around unless something interesting has cropped up on one of those. Or if Homestuck updated. (HUSSIIIIIIIIEEEEEE ( Read more... )

I keep trying to kick my ass into gear, writing-wise (or work-wise or painting- or anything-wise), but it keeps coming back around to shitty wine and fanfiction.

I'm working on a long letter to Jim. I don't know why I want to tell him about my Moral Quandries About Teaching English, or my Nothing Excites Me Like Syntax, or the like, but I do. I don' ( Read more... )

Didn't want to post 'til I caught up on my flist, which took skip=190 (with some judicious filtering), but here I finally am. Work starts tomorrow, and I'm underprepared and mildly suspicious of my employers, but not so much so that it's affecting my mood. I've done a little Chinese practice today (at Devin's fervent fucking urging, and very strict ( Read more... )

Flight booked to Taipei, then another one in October to Manila for visa purposes ( Read more... )

After a rather tumultuous decision-making application-sending process, it is mostly decided that I am going to move to Nanjing. In like a month. I'll stay there and teach for a year.

This'll be... interesting. I'm'a have to figure out some proxies and such so I can still do internets. Uhm. Wish me luck?

Dizzy spells have failed to dispell so I'm at PAMF having just talked to my Primary and having been scheduled for a neurologist appointment and a carotid ultrasound (since she heard a murmur there). Current working theory is that it's magical pain-free migraines. Unless it's not. For anyone that wants to play House, here are the symptoms ( Read more... )

(9:08:46 PM) me: yeah. things move slow, I'm already sort of planning on picking a fight with her regarding [REDACTED], which will hopefully then resolve into a less painful equilibrium. The current one's really getting to me, I cannot hear that much talk about another woman in bed and not get fucked up about it.
(9:09:06 PM) me: even if the talk ( Read more... )

Survived week one of "being a real person." Not enjoying it. Needs more merriment, less slave-to-the-economy-ment. Is it time for school yet?