When I was in elementary and middle school, I believed that there were some teachers who simply delighted in the failure of their students. It wasn’t until high school that I realized that while there are some teachers who are completely indifferent to their students’ academic success, most genuinely cared and would help those [...]
It has been the year of the Monkey for just a few minutes and I already feel like a changed man. No, really, I do. See, I’m posting again… amazing, isn’t it? (and, in response to Eric’s pithy little barb, my lack of posting has been caused solely by the amount of [...]
New Years in China is fun. We pre-game at John’s (which involves me taking two shots of gin straight to start, then Kahlua milk). Next we take off to Gay Heaven (our own translation of the Chinese name, tongzhi tiantang) to see Carl spin. There we encounter useless Chinese crowds that wouldn’t [...]
I know that China is a developing country and that in developing countries one is bound to run into problems that have no apparent connection with “logic” or “reality” because, quite simply, if one didn’t then the country would already be developed. Still, sometimes a situation develops that is so simply asinine that even [...]
I’ve been walking a lot lately. The weather is nice if a little cold; clear as a bell as long as you ignore the dull grey horizon that extends about ten degrees up the sky (note that I wrote this post before the previous one, and that right now the weather is not as [...]