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(Hopefully, I’ll have pictures inserted throughout this long-ish post soon.) The first stage of cultural exchange is commonly called the “honeymoon” period, the time when baby expats get moonstruck by being in a brand spankin’ new place. But when I first got to China, I didn’t feel particularly excited. It could have been a [...] Our genealogy is a little more convoluted than it needs to be, and our last name probably can claim partial credit for that. “What, your last name is Dutch?” people repeat after I tell them. “Are you Dutch, then?” I say no and watch them flail in further confusion. It can [...] 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. [...] Why hasn’t anybody else thought of that pun before? My parents returned to the States on Saturday, which is good because I think they were getting tired of traveling and also because their Internet visits generate the majority of this blog’s traffic volume. I was getting kind of sad seeing a flat line of single [...] NaNoWriMo is slow trudging. I keep finding that I have more and more ideas for what I want to write, but I feel limited by where I am in the story right now. Actually, I feel constrained by the concept of plot entirely – as if what I want to write isn’t what [...] 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? Just walked back into the door from Hong Kong. A lot of impressions, but I think I’ll save them for family conversation and my book. Later I’ll post pictures, though. Baby Aidan is very cute! Tomorrow I’ll head out to Hong Kong to see my cousin William, his wife Kim, and their new baby boy Aidan whom I haven’t met yet! I’m looking forward to spending a few days with family again. On Sunday night I went to meet up with Dennis, a family friend of Uncle Oen’s. The subway ride over to where he lived was a pretty fun experience – every time I go abroad it always seems like public transportation beats the pants off of that in America! There was of course [...] |
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