By the time Chris and I got back from the KFC Sunday evening around 6:30, the water had been turned back on. Yippee! After we heard the 1st-floor neighbor’s washing machine buzzing, we jogged up the five flights just to make sure. Only… I had left the shower switched to the "on" position (presumably since [...]
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Winter Has Arrived
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rational Reposte
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rational Reposte on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s some non-Doodle news. Chris and I have started a blog together! Yep, that’s right. A blog. It’ll be like our baby except none of the poop clean-up. I hope we don’t break-up anytime soon because this’ll just make the division of assets that much harder.
The name of our new baby blog is Rational Reposte [...]
Dandong, Day 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Dandong, Great Wall on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally! We made it to the Great Wall! Eschewing the overcrowded Wall outside Beijing, we opted for the quieter, less overrun section a short drive outside Dandong right on the North Korean border. We encountered only handfuls of people as the sun beat down on us as we climbed and climbed. Most of the murderously [...]
A Few Pics from the Doodle Party
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, dining, food, living on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Besides beer and Drunken Fun Times, going out with Doodles is great because you get to try all the really weird dishes you would never, never order yourself. Unless by accident.
First:
Peking Duck! Those are great dishes. The plates, I mean. Duck parts in a duck plates. The plate on the left contains the cooked skins [...]
More Doodle Propaganda!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, teaching, University on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a behind the scenes look at the latest piece of propaganda the university made us do. This year is the university’s 60 year anniversary, which means they’ll harangue us into doing something weird in the new term. I bet it involves singing. But for now, it was just some pictures of us sitting [...]
Luftwaffe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I have a new pet!
In my class on Friday, my students presented me with a ni gu gu. He is a bird made from local black dirt from a neighboring province, Hubei. If you blow into a little hole in his rear feathers a wispy little song emerges from his belly. He now [...]
Omigod! SNOW!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, snow, weather on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I left for class this morning for my 8:00 class at 7:35 and was shocked, amazed, aghast (!) to see a layer of heavy wet snow covering the ground! The first snowfall of the season! I would have skipped down the road had I not been afraid to slip and fall.
My classes today were [...]
A Very Doodle Christmas
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More photos, more photos!
Go to Chris’s group on Snapfish to see a few Christmas pics of us in Doodleland.
The password is chinaphotos.
Happy viewing!
My Heart Will Go On
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Christmas, ESL on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just thought I’d brag to y’all that my class just serenaded me with a pretty good version of Titanic Girl’s hit song, “My Heart Will Go On.”
(This song is played everywhere like it’s Britney Spears latest triumph).
This was, of course, after I serenaded them with “Jingle Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” and “I [...]
Coffee is ready!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A little coffee is freshly brewed and ready to be savored.
Enjoy!
