Blogs
- Shares zebra!
- A very cool picture: of a zebra! Not a real zebra, just painted that way. I don't know. Anyway, it's a cool picture. How's everybody doing? Life is so busy! Hope you are all well.
- Shares busy; stories
- Hello friends. I have lots of things I want to write posts about lately, but no time to write them. I've started my fall semester of classes, and am excited about all the things I have to learn. Lots of papers and projects coming up also. And later this month I will be taking ...
- Shares Visual guide to a Ph.D.
- Here is a link to a cute explanation in pictures of what getting a Ph.D. really means in terms of knowledge and the world. It's mostly graphs, and just has short sentences accompanying each one. I thought it was interesting, funny, and smart. Also probably accurate.
- Shares Muted
- I am finding life mostly very discouraging. Ever since December, when I left China, I have been unable to shake off this particular sense of loss. The combination of the hurt from the betrayal of my marriage, plus the sadness of having to leave behind my life and the family we'd created, ...
- Shares A dream: the blue lights
- In my dream last night I was alone with my grandmother and her sister, living in a big old stone house. It was dusk, and I peered sideways out a high window. I saw two trees, ancient and bare. They were like straight black sticks rising high into the sky, branching ...
- Shares Utah heights
- My mother and I went to Utah over the weekend. My brother's wife's parents have a condo in a small mountain city there. We met my brother and sister-in-law in the airport Thursday night, and drove a rented car up through the mountain roads to the condo. It was dark, and you couldn' ...
- Shares birth; past, future; sadness
- My birthday is coming up next week, but I am dreading it. It will only serve as a reminder of everything I have lost. I will be 24. I was 21 when I got married. I feel like those years have been stolen from me. The person inside me who is ready to be 24 is the pers ...
- Shares Language, distance from
- I want to speak Chinese everyday, I want to speak Chinese all the time! Any day that I don't spend speaking mostly Chinese is dumb and boring! English does not excite me! I want Chinese all the time, every day, forever and ever! I need people to speak Chinese to! (Why a ...
- Shares A blog I enjoy
- Do you guys read English language blogs? I mean, other than the ones on this site? If you do like to read English blogs around the internet, I thought I'd share one that I like to read pretty regularly. It's called Brazen Careerist , it's written by a very successful businesswoman, a ...
- Shares classes begin!!
- My summer classes started Monday. I'm really happy to have them; I think they will be distracting and helpful to me, keeping me busy and focused on something productive instead of so many depressing things. I live very close to campus, so most days I just walk to class, although sometime ...
