February 2009

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  Dai Another Day

  02.25.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This week I’ve been teaching my classes how to start talking to a stranger. I write on the board the definition of an icebreaker: a remark you use to start a conversation with someone you don’t know. I stress that this is the first thing you say, like “Can you believe this weather we’re having? [...]

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  Deja Vu on LSD

  02.21.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When a city has a close proximity to the Silk Road, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar/Burma and the rest of Southeast Asia, a history that dates back to 279 BCE and later includes a visit from Marco Polo, has been a major market, communication, military, and transport center, and has a (comparatively) large Chinese Minority presence, I [...]

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  Nada in Nada

  02.18.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When I was maybe eight-ish, we were visiting family in Atlanta. I was right in the middle of the ‘I-hate-my-brother-he-is-The-Most-Annoying-Person-on-Earth’ phase (though to be fair, he had mastered the fine art of How To Torture Your Sister) and we were in dangerous proximity: the backseat of a rental car. He asked me something that was [...]

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  A Return to Regularity

  02.16.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Since I wrote my last post the night of the attack, I have been, to various degrees, unable or unwilling to function. For a few days, I found my brain and body completely freezing, completely unable to concentrate. I cried (or came close) at random moments. Sometimes all I could think was, What if that [...]

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  Robbed

  02.07.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you news in Real Time:

  These past few days have been my last on vacation, and Gerald and I have been in Guilin, an area of indescribable beauty that I will later find myself incapable of describing to you. We just spent two and a half days [...]

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  Culinary Perversion

  02.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  On our last day in Sanya, Gerald and I finally discovered a bit of natural beauty. (Note to the Chinese government and my brotha HJT: Rectify this as soon as possible. If it’s not developed, it ain’t makin’ you no money, honey)

  We walked along the beach past where it appeared to end and found a [...]

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