Blogs
- Shares My brother
- I love my brother so much sometimes I forget how to breathe. He is five years older than I am. We were close until he turned eleven. Before eleven, he would dress me up in strange costumes and put me in strange poses, or he would teach me tag football, or some other game, and I ...
- Shares Dubious Humor
- It's weird the things we can afford to be amused at. A lot of jokes are humorous to one fraction of people, boring or meaningless to another fraction, and (for some jokes) horribly and personally upsetting to a minority. I was watching tv with my great aunt, and the plot line involved somethi ...
- Shares In transit
- I am writing from the airport in Dallas, Texas. I left Beijing yesterday, and flew first to Japan, where I sat on the floor right outside a members only lounge, so that I could use their wireless internet connection to check my email and water my happy farm. My flight from Japan to Dal ...
- Shares Battle Royale and sore throat medicine
- When I was in high school, my best friend and I were mildly obsessed with a movie called Battle Royale. It's a Japanese movie about a bunch of kids stuck on an island. It's kind of grim, but we were interested in it as a psychological experiment. We went around explaining the situa ...
- Shares Happy news
- I am really happy right now because I was able to confirm today that I will be able to attend my brother's wedding next month! The wedding is in South Carolina, in the U.S., so when I first learned that they would be getting married in October of 2009, I almost kind of despairing. I kn ...
- Shares Clean your computer screen!
- I started a new job, so I have been very busy lately. I will still write more of my travelogue (with pictures!) but it might be another few days before I have the time. In the mean time, I wanted to share with you the contents of an email sent to me by my mother! I think it's so ...
- Shares Chifeng Travelogue, day 1
- Because the school semester hasn't started yet, and summer sessions are irregular, my husband has had the past two Fridays off. We were trying to decide what to do with this rare opportunity, a three-day weekend. We decided that if we took overnight trains, we could have a small thre ...
- Shares Happy Farm
- I love Happy Farm! Somehow it is really spirit-lifting for me. Lately whenever I feel sad, I long to turn on the computer and check on my farm, and the thought of this silly game makes me feel a lot better. But right now Happy Farm has given me the task of stealing something from ...
- Shares Boring post about tech troubles
- I haven't been using the internet much lately. Technology around me seems to go wrong often. My husband and I each have a laptop computer. But his computer has some strange problem that neither of us understands. Sometimes when you are in the middle of working on somethin ...
- Shares Bliss/Regret
- I remember walking into that place like I’d never been afraid of anything in my life. It almost glittered, it was so clean. And there was I, in the middle of it, dressed like a fairy tale princess. I should have felt insanely embarrassed to be wearing such a fancy dress ...
