A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
It has been a pretty quiet month, punctuated by random instances and occasions. Little to report on other than the occasional party with the girls from work, or my trip to Wuhan to see a friend, or the flood in my apartment last night.
Actually, that last one was pretty good. I went to go wash [...]
Just got back from something that was simultaneously the coolest and coldest things I’ve ever done – Spring Festival out in the boonies, a few hours outside of Xiangfan. During one of the coldest weeks of the season thus far.
There’s a lot to digest – both literally and figuratively – though I will say this: [...]
Today, I discovered two potatoes and an onion that have been sitting in my fridge since sometime in mid-November. To my surprise, both were still valid food items, the onion merely having shriveled on its outermost two layers and the potatoes seemingly untouched by the ravages of time. So, me being me, which is both [...]
Strawberry/Grape/Cherry/Tomato juice. The jury’s still out on this one.
I’m a bit wiped out today, so I can’t talk in depth about the stuff I saw in Wuhan. My picture captions (memories on demand!) will have to do for now. This week? Well, it’s gonna suck until its over, and then a new set of suck [...]
I just gotta get this out of my system before I can give a decent summary of the Wuhan trip. You have to know what I was pretty certain I knew what I was getting into – the details were not there before this trip started, but the otherwise feeling of uncertainty and “Nah, I’m [...]
So here I am, five weeks later, in my apartment.
More to come soon. I am exhausted.
So I’ve moved into the position where counting down the hours until I move into my apartment is not an unwieldy, triple-digit task, but actually somewhere under 36 hours. Of course, moving closer and closer to moving-in time over the last couple of weeks has put me into that frustrated, impatience funk, making the necessities [...]
[Written at 11:50 PM, August 14th]
I find myself sliding further and further into a sense of normalcy here in China. As the days go, I feel my mindset grow more stable and more at ease with this weird-ass environment. It may also have something to do with my self-proposed “deadline,” of sorts. Friday is kind [...]
It’s been a couple days since I’ve put up an update, and there are various reasons for that. This, here, is not yet an update, but more of a prelude as to what’s coming.
Today’s the butt-end of a tripleheaded class schedule – three days of class in a row. I’m exhausted, burnt out, and I [...]
(Originally written at 6:44 AM)
One of the things that people in China like to do is drink. It’s just a thing they do. When it was told that I don’t drink much, people laughed and I still had beer poured for me.
I have, thus, had more beer here in the past two weeks than I [...]