Random Thoughts, Musings, and Stuff...

Today I managed to somehow finagle some sort of deal where Monday, Wednesday and Friday I have classes from 10:00-2:00 (with a 1 hour break for lunch) and Tuesday and Thursday I have classes from 11:00-2:00 (with a 1 hours break for lunch), while everyone else starts at either 8:00 or 9:00 and goes until 12:00 or 2:00.... While I'd love to pat myself endlessly on the back, there's a catch. Whereas I used to have 3 small classes (with 2 other people) and only 1 one-on-one class, I now have only 1 small class and 2 one-on-one classes. This means I'll be studying like a crazy person in order to get all my studying done, since you can't exactly tune out during a one-on-one class. EEEEK! Oh well, my zhongwen (chinese) shuiping (level) yinggai (must) tigao (increase) le hen duo (a lot).


"That party really re-ignited my love for jizz in my pants." Is an actual sentence that came out of me today. God, I can't take me anywhere. I should probably go hide in a book and stop talking to normal people. haha. Applause for awkwardness!

Had it not been for facebook, I don't know when I would have heard about the Mandarin Oriental burning down the other night. *sigh* My incapacity to be "with it" is astonishing and reminds me that I should probably not ignore the NYTimes that I have as my homepage and start actually scanning those headlines.

On a similar note, the other night I literally saw a firework (not firecracker, those little fuckers are annoying) explode a few feet from my living room window. Although Beijing claims to have stringent rules regarding the use of fireworks, I think allowing children under 15 set them off is a definite no no, as is the explosion of fireworks in a closed building complex. Silly chinese pepos.

Finally, I need a gym membership asap.