There's this thing that always happens about two weeks before school gets out, where I completely run out of steam, and lie around dedicating an obscene amount of time to nursing my malaise/ennui, and pondering really deep questions like this one:

Do vegan chicks feel guilty when they swallow?I thought about googling that, but was too lazy to get ( Read more... )

Well, it seems like I am moving to China. The reactions of my co-workers have been surprisingly supportive- such a change from my job in La Joya, where people actively discouraged each other from taking any kind of risk! My boyfriend and family too, are pretty encouraging. This is especially surprising coming from Noe, given that going to China ( Read more... )

It takes years, I think, to understand the seasons of a tropical climate. To the newcomer, the weather just seems like an unending gauntlet of increasingly cruel weather weather events, ranging from "Fucking Hot", to "I DARE you to survive this", culminating in hurricane season. But at the end of last school year, I started being able to divine ( Read more... )

Well. I can't remember if I posted this, but after a feeble attempt at haggling over my salary, I wrote back, and accepted a job in China at an IB high school, as an English teacher ( Read more... )

I went ahead and accepted a job in China. In my mind, this doesn't entirely mean that I'm actually going. It seems too far-off and remote to feel real. But it probably is. Now I have to deal with the actual ramifications of having decided to move to another country. Yikes! I hope I did the right thing. I think I did. Only one way to find ( Read more... )

So without really mentioning it to that many people, I went and applied for a job teaching English at an IB High School for rich kids in China. it's on the outskirts of Beijing, in Changping District, and I know of it because my friend ucpegasus and her boyfriend (fellow corps alums) have been working there this school year ( Read more... )

-Noe's new kitten has an insatiable lust for human flesh, but I love her. She has adopted a strict zero-tolerance policy towards my tank top straps, bracelets,nose, and hair, all of which were viciously attacked in the early hours of this morning. I had forgotten how much like an actual baby a new kitten can be. Good thing she's cute. Otherwise ( Read more... )

Some of you may have heard about a terrible accident that happened on the border Thursday morning, in which 3 illegal immigrants were killed, and 14 were injured. I learned last night that the SUV that hit them belonged to a friend of mine ( Read more... )

Teenage girls in skinny pants getting out of a convertible mini cooper to air-kiss their friends and order "un bubble tea con splenda", then going outside to chain-smoke, and take every make-up item they own out of their Chanel bags, and applying them one by one, taking only brief breaks to come in and yell at the girl behind the count for "

Spring break! For once in my life, I am not booked solid. Dad and step-mom are coming for the first time in three years on Thursday, so I suppose I should be cleaning or grading or something, but I just cannot motivate myself to get off my bum and work ( Read more... )