Every time I think about spending two hours to write a nice piece about what life has been like the last two and a half months, I think that it’s two hours I could be spending with my nose in a book. Haven’t had a chance yet to catch my breath. Hopefully I’ll [...]
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It is indeed my last week of teaching classes here. While still not officially confirmed, I’ve heard so from enough unofficial teachers and administrators that I’m going with it. The reason for the early ending is that my students are all Junior 3s, and are all preparing for their high school entrance examinations. From what I [...] I just haven’t been able to get myself to write much recently. Even in my book. I guess we’ll call that one a failure, everybody. I do have a month or so left, though, and not much to do with it. This is my last week of teaching. I found that out when the [...] “不好意思，我又把我的钥匙留在房子里面。” I think that’s right. Is it? It’s what I plan on saying to the groundskeeper who lives on the floor below me when I return home tonight, because I need to get back into my room. After closing the door and fishing through my pockets, I realized belatedly that I left [...] 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. [...] 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. [...] Whenever I come back to Shenzhen from Hong Kong I stop by a magazine stand to pick up some English reading to while away the time spent changing subway/train lines and standing in line in customs. My preferences: GQ and Wired. But it has to be an American – not British – edition [...] This blog isn’t dead, I promise. The combination of dead laptop (which makes it inconvenient to come here to the office to post) and additional writing work from NaNoWriMo just crowded out the time it took to write magnum opus posts all the time – and while I could twitter away various opinions and [...] I have been wanting to watch television in Mandarin for a while so that I could improve my vocabulary, but the news isn’t suitable (the words are too hard; I can’t imagine translating ‘bilateral trade negotiations’ on my iTouch and feeling very much accomplished) and the Chinese soaps I find on TV are too silly [...] 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 [...] |
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