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and fruit too, oh my

I was eating dinner at a fancy Thai restaurant at Coastal City with Kami and Nicole when Tiantian called.

“Andrew where are you!”

Uh oh. Did I forget another teacher’s banquet?

“No, it is okay. There is a box of fruit for Mid-Autumn Festival here for you! It will be on first floor.”

Oh, thanks Tiantian!

Hours [...]

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lions and tigers and bears, oh my

“Of course I think it is very important for young people to know about history,” said Wang Laoshi. The four of us from the English Department were clustered together again at the lunch bench in the teacher’s canteen, and after somehow getting on the subject of family trees (”Family tree is jiapu! Say [...]

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steno baby gestation

My post titles are getting intentionally stranger and stranger as I think about what would most poetically capture what I want to say. I disclaimed a long time ago that this blog would be an “experimental prose testing ground,” though so far I’ve kept that largely at bay (both for coherency and intellectual property!)

But [...]

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musical thrift

For the handy price of 1000 kuai (about $146 US) I got two musical instruments, a decent guitar and erhu, both at once – making me a musician again, but with new things to learn. Having all but stopped pursuit of the clarinet and piano studies that defined my youth, I think this cements [...]

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