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highlights from hong kong

For the first time, in picture format!

….Except this still isn’t the way I wanted them…Ryan, can you tell me sometime how you embed your Flickr photo albums into your blog posts?

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some stuff shifting around

Ignore the post right below this (unless you really like microbiology and critical theory); I’m moving some of the static pages containing essays and miscellaneous pieces that are supposed to go under “Piecemeal Papers and Projects” into dynamic pages so I can attach more information to them behind the scenes. If you’re interested more [...]

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Viral Panic: The Paranoid Style in Microbiological Discourse

Written for Professor Peter Starr’s Comparative Literature 381 seminar, entitled “Literature and Psychology.” Professor Starr is now the Dean of American University’s College of Arts of Sciences and an article introducing him mentions this piece and others by my classmates. This piece also went on to receive an honorable mention in USC’s university-wide [...]

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brother chun is all man

I can’t really sleep (I think I drank too much tea) so here’s one post for you.

Teaching a foreign language has been an interesting challenge for me, since I’m the kind of arsehole who has trouble keeping my syllables down. A friend once affectionately (euphemistically, I thought) said “you talk just like you write!” [...]

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cash for time

One of the biggest complaints of previous Asian-American teachers in China that I have heard of is that we have a relatively difficult time securing extra-legal (to use a euphemism) employment that most other foreign teachers enjoy. That is, because of the technical restrictions on our visas, it is illegal for us to teach [...]

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