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Hello, boys and girls! Christina and I are safe and sound back in Anyang. Christina has chronicled about our journey, so I will direct you to her for now. We've also updated my Snapfish with a quick preview of the hundreds of photos we took. Here's a taste:
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I got my Forbidden City pictures up on my Snapfish. That'll stand in for my Pic o' the Week. As always, you can see them here, room code:
chinaphotos
Hope that works. . . .
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Hey, folks. Missed a week and a half . . . that's my bad, but I have been writing things, so I'll be making up for a little lost time. I've also discovered the joys of photo stitching and am finishing up going through all the pictures I took in Beijing. So. This Pic o' the Week is actually a double-Pic. I give you:
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Hey, friends. Just a quick one today. I'm feeling a little out of it and I still have grades to finalize. I haven't taken any interesting pictures as of late, so I'll just give you another from the Beijing trip. Laters.
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Soooo, it's that time again. I have a bunch of pictures I could share, what with my flaking out on this for . . . almost two months. I thought I'd share something from our trip to Beijing we recently took. I had to go there in order to renew my passport, which expired next year (They wouldn't get me a new residence permit for the coming year if I didn't, so it was either that or . . . deported). And since I had to go to Beijing to do that anyway, Christina and I thought we'd make a trip of it.
So here we are:
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Hello, world. It's been a while. No, I'm not dead. Just tired.
April hasn't been too bad: ups and downs, strikes and gutters. I'm failing the NaNoWriMo challenge pretty miserably. I'm not even gonna come close. That's what I get for trying to write without an outline, I s'pose. Blogspirit tells me I got over 1,300 visits to my blog this month . . . I should drop off the face of the Earth more often.
Anyway, I'll resolve to post more . . . which will probably last a good four days before I get distracted by something shiny and don't post till June. But until then, here's the Pic o' the Week.
Anyang Normal University held its yearly sports event days, where students get to sign up and compete in various sporting events. It was pretty fun seeing all the different events. There was a javelin throw, various foot races, long jump, high jump . . . all that Olympic crap. And the students seemed really jazzed about it all. Christina saw one of her students who competed and when asked how she did, she said cheerfully, "I came in last!" A few students (and one administrator) asked me if there was anything like this in America. I said politely . . . yes. Every week, depending on the sport and the season.
Anywho, here's my pic:
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We have completely moved into our new apartment (except for the water heater in the shower, which delivers a mild electric shock when used (I was the one who discovered that), so we have to traipse back to our old apartment to take a shower), and it is so much better than our old one. So much better. It's less drafty. It has a tile floor instead of concrete. And it's on the fifth floor, which puts us above the mosquitoes and such . . . even if it is a trek every time to get up and down.
And this Pic o' the Week is our new view out our living room window. It's . . . well, it's special.
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This Pic o' the Week is what we call a cop-out, kids. Daddy's tired and he doesn't have any pictures on his computer because a big bad doodle made him format his system and reinstall Windows.
That's right, kids, "Booooooo on that doodle!"
But the good news is, right before we lost the internet, Christina and I uploaded the second half of our pictures from our Yunnan trip to Snapfish. Does everyone remember where that is? That's right!
And what was the room code? You better believe it's chinaphotos!
Very good, kids. Now. Oh last thing: Do you know what today is, kids? That's right it's the Ides of March! Do you know what happened today, a long, long time ago? Well, a bunch of grumpy old white men stabbed a man over twenty times until he was just a bloody mess--thereby blurring the line between a republic and mob-rule and also becoming the evil they sought to destroy.
That's right, kids, "Yaaaaaaaaaay, republics!"
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Gah! Here I am again: another week gone and only Pic o' the Weeks posted on my blog. I have things I want to say/share; I just can't find the damn time.
No excuses, Walsh--get your head in the game!
OK, OK. *stretches neck, quads, lupins (wolves?))* Here we go here we go.
New plan: Starting . . . now(!) I am going to set aside one hour every(-ish (<---I have to have some break)) day to keeping this thing updated. One hour. What's an hour? I can manage an hour.
Why is it so hard for me to keep up with things?! I haven't played the guitar . . . once, in 2009. My doodle studies are in shambles! Shambles! And I have no excuse. I did go on a three-week vacation, but that was only three weeks. It's the third damn month of the year already!!! Ahhhhhhh!
I will do this. I will do this. By force of will, I will make my mind obey me. You hear me, brain? Concentrate!
In slightly more inspiring news, I have been able to keep up my writing. Christina and I set a personal goal of 1,000 words per day, six days a week, and since getting back to Anyang after the trip, I've been able to mostly keep up with that. Though in the last few days I have been slipping.
Force of will!!!
But I will not go quietly into the night. I won't surrender without a fight! I'm going to live on. I'm going to survive. Today, I celebrate my Independence Day!
Alright, that last part was self-indulgent.
Bleh, anywhos. Let this Pic o' the Week be a sign of good things (and more blog posts) to come:
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Hey hey hey!
Wanted to update the 'ol blogger before climbing into bed so I can wake up before the sun comes out tomorrow (accursed eight o'clock classes!).
Christina and I concluded the second half of our Yunnan trip photos on my Snapfish account. Once again, you can find them here, room code:
chinaphotos
Classes this term look like they could be a mixed bag. I was assigned no English majors, the closest being Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language majors. Which means the language skills of my students blows monkey chunks. And they're not exactly loquacious . . .
Anywho, this Pic o' the Week actually came from a couple of weeks ago. It was the end of the Spring Festival and the foreign teachers gathered to set off a few fireworks.
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