I don't know how months of anticipation so rapidly collapsed into the final hours of my final day in the U.S., but for better or for worse, I leave for China tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

So this coming Sunday, the BF and I are flying into LAX in the wee hours of the morning, where we will then need to kill FIFTEEN hours before he gets on his connecting flight to Taipei, and leave me forever. Ok, a year ( Read more... )

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I just bought a one-way ticket to China.

Ohmigosh ( Read more... )

Oh gosh, oh boy- it's over! Well, almost. I have to go in tomorrow morning to pack up and check out. It's funny how the tiniest little things signify seasons here. Driving home, I realized that you know it's the end of the school year when the sorghum is ripe, and the sky is filled with thunderheads, and the air feels like a wet wool blanket ( Read more... )

After years of never getting any spam, I am suddenly getting 2-7 new spams a day on my g-mail account. G-mail does a good job of filtering them directly into the spam file, but it's SO annoying! Is there anything that can be done about this? I have noticed that a lot of them have an unsuscribe/opt-out feature, which requires me to enter my e- ( Read more... )

The Good ( Read more... )

Today, a kid in my class drew a portrait of himself with copious amounts of wiry black armpit hair coming out of his shirt.

We can all dream, I guess.

Remember yesterday when I said I was going to eat a dangerous amount of bread and then swear off simple carbohydrates forever? I'm almost there, right after one more slice. No-Knead bread deserves all the press. Four ingredients. No special equipment. Ten minutes of hands-on time. Hot, Crusty,well-developed yeasty flavor, perfect ( Read more... )