A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
So here I am, finally in China. Sounds like a strange sentiment for someone who’s been living in the country for, already, the better part of a year, but it’s finally happened, along with much else since my last post.
The last stretch of my employment at Aston were a bit of a rush. The last [...]
“You are a waste of beautiful things.”
The best mixed compliment I’ve received in my life. My big eyes, long eyelashes, and long, thick hair are a constant source of annoyance to my many female coworkers. When I have to retie my hair at work, the girls make big, annoyed sighs and stamp about* because my [...]
Ah.. Christmas. In China. Working for privately owned training school. If there’s one thing that didn’t fully dawn on me until it was too late, it was how severely I and the other foreigners here would be used as marketing stooges by the school. There’s really no dignity to be had, and thankfully, as foreigners, [...]
A couple days ago, I read about this satellite image:
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:
…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 [...]
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 [...]
Somehow, Fried Squid-on-a-Plate is less appetizing than Fried Squid-on-a-Stick. Nevertheless:
Things have been quiet out of me lately because, in the last week or two, I’ve slipped into something of a state of normalcy. I work slightly irregular hours over the week, do my two 8 hour shifts on the weekends, then hide in my apartment [...]
…in my stomach, as we speak.
Which brings me to my next point:
I created life today. Not much of it, but after a bit of nagging, I managed to wrangle a new frying pan out of the powers that be at my school. The previous one both sucked as a cooking implement AND seemed to be [...]
Well. It happened… I guess it was bound too, considering how much exposure I’ve had, lately:
I’ve become inured to the taste of beer.
I’d say that I’ve acquired a taste for it… but really – it still tastes like someone stuffed a piece of bread into a bottle, peed into it, then sealed it. The problem [...]