Actual Post and Updates
Again, it’s been a while since posting, almost 2 weeks, mostly due to how busy we’ve been with Maria’s MBA program starting up properly and falling into the routine of it all. I don’t think there’s actually much new to post about, so I think this post will mostly be me complaining about a plethora [...]
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Posted September 29th, 2010 - 3:40 am by sean
Categories china
Tags cell phones, Chinese people, comfort, holiday, job, MBA, public transit, rant, sick, visas
Generic Style Updates
I haven’t done proper non-project specific updates in a while, so I thought I’d go into it a bit. 1) I repaired my bike today. I hadn’t ridden it for close to a month, and it’s been raining, then hot, then humid, so it was in very, very poor condition. I had to get one [...]
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Posted August 6th, 2010 - 1:11 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags Chinese people, computers, Connections Bar & Grill
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
Rediscovering…this.
I’ve not had any dreams lately, at least none that I can remember. When I just wake up, and I know I had a really good dream, one full of wonders and fantasy and whatever else makes such things perhaps a bit better than real life, it slips away, much quicker than before, well before [...]
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Posted May 28th, 2010 - 1:25 am by sean
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Tags Chinese people, Connections Bar & Grill, expats, family, job, rambling, rant, running, tips
A Good Way to End a Bad Day
So I’m a little bit deaf right now. Everything’s sort of muffled and even when I talk to myself it’s as if there’s cotton filling up my skull. It was an overall crappy day, punctuated by some good times. I had rehearsal with the IFC Youth Choir, which was lots of fun; I’ve always enjoyed [...]
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Posted May 7th, 2010 - 4:07 am by sean
Categories china
Tags adventure, Chinese people, nightlife
Reflections on Chinese Men
Chinese men. Interesting creatures really. Often times easily mistaken for women due to the way they dress (skinny jeans, Louis Vuitton “murses,” Vertu “designer” cell phones, etc.), their mannerisms (“V” for victory hand signals), the style of their hair (long, colored, pink). Other times borderline homosexual due to the “camaraderie” they exhibit towards their fellow [...]
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Posted April 4th, 2010 - 4:56 am by sean
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Tags Chinese people, Connections Bar & Grill, rant
Observations on the Chinese legal world, which now apparently includes me
This post consists of rambling observations on 1) Chinese law and Chinese lawyers, 2) Maria’s fascinating work in Beijing that she doesn’t regret at all getting snookered into accepting, and 3) Maria’s disinclination to work (“I have a plan, and this isn’t part of it!”). Shortly after arriving in Beijing, I responded to an ad [...]
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Posted November 1st, 2009 - 11:40 pm by maria
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Tags business, china, Chinese people, lawyers, rambling, rant
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 [...]