Seriously, it’s cold here. I’ve been known to bitch about the weather from time to time, but that’s only because I come from Florida (which has perfect weather if you ignore the hurricanes and summer downpours and oppressive heat) and I expect better of Mother Nature than those of you that come from less [...]
And just as quickly as it happened it has gone away, and I am now able to access wantingseed from my home without using a proxy. Strange.
I guess I don’t have a good excuse not to post anymore, do I?
I suppose that the surest sign of being “settled” in a place or situation is that things that once seemed like an adventure become routine, devoid of any real excitement. Teaching has certainly become routine, after eight or so harrowing weeks of terror in which I played the role of the stricken, unimaginative teacher [...]
Fucking China.
It appears that despite my effervescent love for the People’s Republic of China, the entire Denial of Purpose collective (or, rather, what used to be that and is now Jordan’s hosting company), is being blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
I’m currently accessing this through an open proxy which is pretty fast and not [...]
Karl von Clauswitz once said that “[i]n war everything is simple. But in war even simple things are hard to achieve.” This could also be said without hesitation about all but the most basic aspects of living in China.
My parents, being the wonderful people that they are, decided to send me (after just a [...]