Furniture has been built
So it’s been a couple of weeks since we made our big purchase at Ikea Brooklyn. They delivered everything, which was actually a great deal considering how much we had (apparently over 1000lbs or so says the shipping label heh) and that if they had to, they would have walked things up the stairs, all [...]
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Posted February 23rd, 2011 - 3:56 am by sean
Categories new york city
Tags apartment, comfort, furniture
Countdown once again – 4 Days
It’s that time of year again, or rather that time of the year and a half. We are counting down the days until we leave. I guess we hadn’t formally announced any such things yet, and though the rest of the inter-webs know already, the blog is sadly still officially ignorant of certain important matters. [...]
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Posted December 20th, 2010 - 2:42 am by sean
Categories china
Tags apartment, blog, business, comfort, computers, engagement, International Festival Chorus, lawyers, MBA, moving, nostalgia, NYC, Ohio, travel, visas
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
Very sick…
So it’s been like, over a week. Maria and I are both sick. We think it happened because of all the MBA people she was interacting with. The theory goes, we have close to 100 people, coming from different and perhaps, weird, countries, flying long distances on planes with perhaps even, weirder, people, all being [...]
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Posted September 14th, 2010 - 4:00 pm by sean
Categories china
Tags business, comfort, Connections Bar & Grill, family, International Festival Chorus, job, MBA, rambling, sick
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
Perforation
Maybe Sean is rubbing off on me. Today I feel like treating this forum like a diary. I wrote an entry, but then I deleted it for being overly confessional; I guess this replacement is kind of personal too, though, so maybe that’s just the way of it, today. :) Either way. I am pleased [...]
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Posted March 29th, 2010 - 7:06 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags b-skool, comfort, food, job, movies, running
Apartamento!
We moved in. I am so happy. We are lacking a few near-essentials, and short on others, and I don’t yet know an easy way to get some of this stuff (do I really have to walk for miles to buy toilet paper?) but I have a water-boiling pot, a supply of tea, a shower [...]
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Posted October 13th, 2009 - 10:26 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags apartment, comfort, running
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
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 [...]