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Ain’t never been so drunk that I’ve neededt ohug a toilet, but rigt now, I’m higging a toilet. rock on
sprong festival is nutty.
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But it’s okay, I only have a short update.
Today, for dinner (a second dinner, mind you), I managed to accidentally eat an eyeball, and I tried both frog legs (they were good) and turtle (there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed).
I maintain, though, I don’t like to eat things that look like themselves. Frog [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year from 13 hours in the future (by the EST reckoning, which I now tend to refer to as the “Shire reckoning” for ha has).
Today has stacked up to be one of the more ironic New Year’s I’ve experienced on record. As some of you may remember, I have made many posts, especially [...]

Note to self – my Chinese gets exponentially better once I’ve got a little bit of booze in me. I had a small class of Jianjiu, or Yaojiu (medicine wine), which is basically the local baijiu with roots and herbs in it. It’s still pretty nasty, but I can pretend that it’s got some kind [...]

Being low on… everything, I did a semi-major grocery run tonight. I bought:
Two large bottles of juice (each will last me a week)
Three large potatoes
Two large onions
A bag of mushrooms
A hand of bananas
A roll of Oreos (I’m ashamed)
A bottle of Sesame Oil
Six servings of milk

I’m getting itchy. Like… under my skin. I’m getting tired of a bunch of things here – mainly my inability to form connections due to the language barrier, that damnable wall I hit every time I try to forge some new communication with someone, or when I have a question I want to ask but [...]

If there’s any one thing that’s happened to me in China so far that has made the entire experience worth it, it’s been the connection I’ve managed to forge with this family:

Despite my rather dismal outlook on my social situation, I find that I can always count on my la mian people to perk me up. I went and sat down for a bit of the ol’ xihongsi chao dan (shang mifan, of course) expecting little but some dinner and then a short walk home to [...]

…begins with today’s stupid cooking bullshit:
This is what happens when you try to cook an omelet under the following conditions:
1) With water instead of milk (it comes in little bags which are hard to reseal if you don’t want to use all of the milk, which I didn’t).
2) On a stove that uses numerical temperate [...]