The Brain Dump

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.

Christina's mother informed us that it looked just like the pictures Christina's brother is taking of Iraq.

Joyous.

Alrighty, we are back from Linzhou and do I have some pictures for you!

Yes.

Here we go.

Oy, I'm getting all gwiggly thinking about it.

OK, OK.

Here I am:

The grossness factor was huge. And it did not help that our New Zealander friend, Robert, was popping them into his mouth easy-as-can-be. But Christina really wanted to try one. And did:


That's Robert behind her. The amused looking Polish man to my left is Adam. He is Polish. Christina ate hers first; I required more convincing. She told me happily, "Tastes like popcorn!" This did not make it easier. The doodles were all very amused. Here's the problem: they brought the little arachnids out before everybody toasted us and got super-wasted-face. No, no, no, doodles. You bring the gross looking stuff out after . . . after . . . sigh. It would have been so much easier after.

Though it did taste a little like popcorn. . . .

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!"

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.