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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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  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 [...]

  

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  Mother Nature Gets a Face Lift

  01.30.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Though Gerald and I pride ourselves on not being ‘tourists,’ and sometimes we like to get a little snooty about doing ‘touristy’ things, during our first full day in Sanya, we had a little touristy business to get out of the way: we wanted to go to the end of the world. So we hopped [...]

  

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  More Kick for Your Kuai

  01.26.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After a bit of midnight bargaining with a local Haikou driver, Gerald and I sat in the back of this Mr. Pan’s car waiting to be driven for our hostel. We had just arrived in Haikou and just wanted to get to bed. But Mr. Pan had other ideas. Since we had bargained so well [...]

  

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  Park It

  01.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  For our second day in Haikou, Gerald and I decided to do some walking. But first, breakfast. We took the bus to Haikou Park to check it out. I love parks in China because there’s always stuff going on and there are always people around. It’s not like parks in America, where there are a [...]

  

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  Go South, Young (Wo)Man

  01.14.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In my opinion, there are two injustices in this world: calories and winter. Why can’t we just eat as much as we want without suffering the physical consequences? And why can’t we do so wearing flip-flops and t-shirts year-round? Winter is, at least in theory, escapable, while calories are not (though I’m sure the Splenda [...]

  

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