First post of 2011
Let’s see, what was written last? So it’s obviously been a while since I’ve posted, and a lot of things have happened since, hence the been a while since I’ve last posted. I mean, that was half way around the world ago, and last year. As I write, it is the middle of the night [...]
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Posted January 11th, 2011 - 2:30 pm by sean
Categories new york city
Tags adventure, apartment, beijing, computers, food, friends, holiday, movies, Ohio, post-china, public transit, rant, running
a confessional tone
i apologize for the lack of capitals in this post, but i’m posting from my ipad and i disabled the auto correct feature because i found it to be less than intuitive about what i actually wanted to type. i also apologize for the general lack of posts on this here blog, but we’ve both [...]
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Posted June 21st, 2010 - 2:10 am by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, beijing, comfort, Connections Bar & Grill, job, nostalgia, rambling, rant, reference, visas, waiting
Relaxed
My conference call was canceled this afternoon, and Sean and I had been a bit stressed out, so we took the afternoon off and strode out into the streets. It was an excellent food-and-walking day. Google Maps clocks us at some 13 km, hardly hastily executed at some 6 hours, and in any event involving [...]
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Posted June 3rd, 2010 - 10:07 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags beijing, Chinese people, food, movies
Mutatis
Sean is sleeping near my desk; his schedule is completely out of whack. We’re both being reasonably productive, but this is a largely unstructured life at the moment. In fact, many other strictures also seem to have fallen by the wayside. Whether to good or ill effect, I can’t yet say. I suggested to him [...]
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Posted October 17th, 2009 - 1:38 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags beijing, Chinese people, public transit
Water
Sean’s stepmom showed me how to boil water (I’m so embarrassed) and now I have an unlimited supply of hot water, optionally for tea.� This is wonderful.� I’ve even gotten some studying done. We’ve now secured an apartment–well, secured, at least in some sense. The rent is already high and we’ve sort-of been warned that [...]
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Posted October 9th, 2009 - 3:30 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags apartment, beijing, china, comfort, food, GMAT, holiday, running
National Day 2009
As promised, Happy 60th Birthday People’s Republic of China! I’d like to start out by stating that I think I’m spending way too much time with my family. Counting the time after we left our apartments in LA, we’ve been living with some form of family for over two months. I think it’s starting to [...]
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Posted October 5th, 2009 - 1:50 am by sean
Categories china
Tags beijing, family, holiday, rant
Apartment Hunting in Beijing
So it’s been a while, and a lot has happened, and I don’t have the time right now to write about all of them so I think I’m going to settle for making some updates and filling in the rest later, albeit out of order. That should be acceptable. One of our primary concerns especially [...]
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Posted October 2nd, 2009 - 12:08 am by sean
Categories china,reference
Tags apartment, beijing, china, comfort, tips
Status update
Although it’s hard to say how many days we’ve been here, my LA clock says it’s almost 4:30 pm on Friday. I guess it’s Saturday morning, then. We’ve slept four nights in this apartment. I’m pleased to report that yesterday’s mosquito measures appear to have been successful. The vampires that have been biting us at [...]
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Posted September 26th, 2009 - 8:12 am by maria
Categories china
Tags beijing, bugs, china, comfort, running
Inaugural Post in China: Part 2
So I think I covered everything that happened during the trip to China and that very first day we were here. We slept decently well, were obviously exhausted, but it was painfully obvious why my father at one point or another made the comment that Chinese mattresses are bad. In the morning, Maria managed to [...]
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Posted September 24th, 2009 - 7:20 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, beijing, china, family
Inaugural Post in China
We’re finally here! And there’s so much to talk about but so little time and really energy on my part to write it. We left Sunday night/Monday morning, one of those effective vs. actual thingies. We had a little trouble getting our carry ons approved by the airline. Apparently, there’s a 7 kg weight limit, [...]
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Posted September 23rd, 2009 - 8:42 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags beijing, china, family, travel
Making it happen
Finishing up in the States is leaving me with a clean and ready feeling about moving on to China. It’s been lovely to see folks, and very nice to travel. Still, I feel very temporary and kind of displaced. Bouncing around the country makes China smell like stability. (Way to set yourself up for contrast, [...]