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The English office doesn’t have a printer. I’m not really sure how an entire school functions without ever printing anything out, but I’ve gotten used to it. I keep all my lesson plans and notes in digital files, or I scribble them out into a notebook. Saves trees and ink, I guess. But [...] I always liked the word “interstitial.” It used to pop up occasionally in my critical theory books in reference to abstract in-betweens that post-structuralist theorists liked to expand on so very much (evidently the world’s demand for abstract concepts is beginning to outstrip supply). I always thought it had surgical-Tim-Burton-esque connotations too. [...] So the phrase “你吃饭了吗” I know means literally “have you eaten,” but I also know that it is often used like a passing hello. An acceptably ordinary response would be “吃了,” or “I have.” Like saying “not much” in response to “what’s up?” But here is my question: Having two weeks off before I begin traveling around China to see family is nice in that without morning classes to worry about I can get out of my corner of Shenzhen and make sure I’ve actually become familiar with this place and how it works. They say Shenzhen doesn’t have “culture,” but surely [...] After my last class of the morning I decided to go exploring. Heck, it’s a nice sunny day and I need to get out. An easy option was to look around the Sea World area, a few miles south of my neighborhood. As all Shenzhen expats know by now, our Sea World does not [...] My writing project didn’t end with NaNoWriMo, but then it hardly began with it, either. Every time I write a sentence down, I go back and hack away at the rest of it until I remember that the rest of my plot is in shambles anyway and I should probably fix that first. [...] I think I ate a bad dumpling yesterday. This is going to be a problem, because as you may know, once you upchuck a kind of food once, you never want to eat it again. This is why french toast and italian sodas are off limits for me. Then, though, I had [...] The sonic hedgehog homolog gene “is one of three proteins in the mammalian signaling pathway family.” It also has a repressor protein. Guess what it’s called? Robotnikinin. If I were a biology PhD student my life goal would be to discover a molecule just so I could name it Pikachu. Oh wait. That’s already been done [...] |
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