Well, I don’t know, but my previous roommate is gone and a new one (a local as tall as I am if not taller, by the name of Alex) is here. Glad nobody told me. Psycholinguistics was bigger than I thought: the classroom was full. It seems to be an education requirement and more focused […]
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Wow, the $3 stamp is small here. I’d been dealing with aerogrammes (and not with stamps since the postage is part of it) but I bought one today to send in my absentee ballot request. I don’t know much about Global Environment: it was a syllabus day. I’m sure a chunk of it will overlap […]
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The various trips have returned and we were all on campus today to get ready for class tomorrow. But first things first—it was Jessalyn’s birthday, so a group of us went out to the Pizza Hut in the Town Centre (someone had cravings?). This is a Pizza Hut unlike one you’ve ever seen. It looked […]
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…is that it’s usually gone before I can make it back. Tonight’s meal: Appetizer: egg tart Main Dish: crab bun Dessert: pineapple custard bun
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Though I’m up late—I’m looking to call a professor with office hours from 1:30 to 3:30—the cough isn’t quite so bad. My strategy of lethargy may be working (or I may just be getting over it). Today I worked on law school applications, finding myriad errors in every one. The “detail-oriented” nitpicking possible on these […]
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Last night was miserable. Last night I got my roommate. But correlation does not equal causation. The misery can be attributed almost entirely to going to bed early because I was coughing so much. I had been out and about, of course, and deserved every moment. But this was complicated by my roommate’s moving in. […]
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Since it was so nice, I prolonged my cough by way of a visit to the “Big Buddha,” the 23m Tian Tan Buddha above the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island. Since many of my currently-abroad colleagues went there when I went to Central, I figured I’d increase our overlap. Lantau is a large island […]
someone doesn’t want me to get rid of this cold. I just don’t know if it’s a PRC plot with cloud seeding, the guys who smoke in a nearby room, or the whole lot of screaming loud freshman-types that keep me up to 1:30. I miss the lifeless, socially inept vibe at Stalnaker at times […]
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OK, I get the hint—since I’ve been asked this by literally every person I’ve talked to in the States since arriving: Monday 4 September (this coming).
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I’d been trying to stay in and rest in the hopes that it would wipe out my cough, but about 4:30 I decided that it would be criminal to spend such a frabjous-looking day inside. It was still hot, but there were patches of clear blue in the sky and humidity dropped briefly into the […]
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