June 2009

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• America, animals, fish, less food-related, musings, travel

  One small step for man

  06.30.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Physics has never been my forte (ditto with anything numerical or scientific), but one thing I do recall from my high school Intro to Physics class is the general idea of the Theory of Relativity. Basically that someone traveling the speed of light for a certain amount of time will age slower than a stationary [...]

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• Shanghai, cooking, dessert, entrees, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, out and about

  Pura Vida

  06.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It hasn’t been a particularly photographic past week or so, mostly due to a heat so oppressive that the act of scratching one’s mosquito bites produces sweat amounts so copious that really, there’s just no point in showering anymore. Really the only thing anyone wants to do is sit or lie around complaining about the [...]

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• less food-related, musings, students, teaching

  In This Weekend’s New York Times Magazine

  06.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Questions for ellis friedman

  New York Times: You have now lived in China for nearly eight months, and your first school year as a college English teacher has just ended. I was wondering if you might share some insights about your life in China so far.

  ellis friedman: That’s why I’m imagining this interview with you.

  NYT: Right [...]

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• huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching

  A Huzhou Home Companion

  06.14.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Every night, the speakers around school blast a strange, vaguely Celtic jingle, which means it’s 5:15 and time for the school’s radio broadcast. When I told Jennifer about it a few months ago she said, “You mean you have to listen? What if you don’t want to?” But when you come to China as a [...]

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• animals, less food-related, out and about, temples, travel

  So a foreigner walks into a bar…

  06.11.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been through many breakfast phases in my life. There were the frosted strawberry Poptarts, the toaster oven frozen hash browns, the Honey Bunches of Oats, the Honey Nut Cheerios, the hard boiled eggs and toast, the huge bowl of pineapple, the Good Friends, cold pepperoni pizza. These were all separate phases, of course. I [...]

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• amuse bouche, huzhou, tidbits

  Crime and Punishment: The Street Corner Nutritionist

  06.09.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Common Poor Eating Habits
  1. Eating too much [Are you me? If yes, enter guilty plea to avoid expense of trial]
  2. Eating too much MSG [Do you live in China? If yes, guilty.]
  3. Getting together and sharing food (like having big parties and getting a lot of food) [Do you live in China? If yes, guilty.]
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• baking, cooking, dessert, entrees, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients

  Butter Me Up

  06.08.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I am proud to say that I was a very…unique little girl. You’ve heard about the whole Singin’ in the Rain thing, and at the start of this blog I believe I mentioned how, when I was 5, I was so enamored of the name Crystal that I made my parents call me Crystal. Crystal [...]

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• Parks, animals, huzhou, less food-related, out and about

  Casting Stones

  06.03.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As it goes in my blurry 6-ish-year old memory, which may be borderline fictitious, our family friend Guy, of But what’s the guy’s NAME? fame, once accompanied us up to Flagstaff. We were all out for a walk and came to a small pond. When I wasn’t looking, Guy picked up some rocks and threw [...]

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