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* It doesn’t sound like much, but nothing has ever been more. * If you’re feeling crumbled in the middle of China: * The one where I thank people. * You'd like it in China, Mr. O'Reilly. * The bai jiu. * Nope, not today. * I could be in Thailand. * Go to class.
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December 25, 2005Funny, what time does.When I was six, Christmas meant an early rise, every cell in my body vibrating with sure anticipation. Eyes snap open, feet swing to the floor, and I'm running downstairs with my brother, all in one motion. At sixteen, Christmas...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 25, 2005 03:46 AM
Category: December 22, 2005It doesn’t sound like much, but nothing has ever been more.For anyone I haven’t been able to keep in touch with, this is what I’ve done: November 16, 2004 -- Anchorage to Bangkok, with precisely one backpack, one ticket, and no plan. Bangkok to Sydney, where I had the best...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 22, 2005 06:26 AM
Category: If you’re feeling crumbled in the middle of China:I suggest dancing around your apartment and air-drumming with chopsticks. To the Velvet Teens’ Counting Backwards, in this case, but I suspect another song would substitute just fine....Read this update Posted by Winston on December 22, 2005 06:16 AM
Category: December 21, 2005The one where I thank people.Thank you Colin Meloy, Charles Bissell, Jeremy Enigk, Markus Acher, Matt Berninger, Doug Martsch, Win Butler and Regina Chassagne, Stephen Patrick Morrissey. Thank you Frank Black, Daniel Kessler, Ben Gibbard, Lou Reed, Dave Davies, James Mercer, Otis Redding, Britt Daniel,...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 21, 2005 05:32 AM
Category: December 19, 2005You'd like it in China, Mr. O'Reilly.The local supermarket is playing soft jazz covers of Christmas carols, and a cardboard Santa face lords over the escalator. Why? Why does only America’s most wretched cultural effluvia leak through the carapace of these alien cultures? WHY? For fuck’s...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 19, 2005 12:53 AM
Category: The bai jiu.We left the school one weekday afternoon in a flock: a squadron of dark-jacketed Chinese men and myself, strutting with conviction towards the enormous high school across the bridge. They were all teachers at my school. Teachers, that is, until...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 19, 2005 12:08 AM
Category: December 08, 2005Nope, not today.I was all ready to write something cheery. But, on my walk to the grocery store I saw them skinning dogs on the sidewalk, in front of the tiny rusting cage holding the two remaining dogs. So, maybe this weekend....Read this update Posted by Winston on December 8, 2005 03:55 AM
Category: December 05, 2005I could be in Thailand.I swear to you, someone took a dump in one of the classrooms today. Another class spent the entire time pointing and laughing at a rip in my pullover. If you think exuberant pre-adolescents can’t crush your spirits like a...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 5, 2005 04:12 AM
Category: December 03, 2005Go to class.Jinjiang Middle School is a government institution with two thousand kids. There are anywhere from sixty-five to nearly ninety students in each class. Students must pay a fee to attend school, which buys them desks and a blackboard and me,...Read this update Posted by Winston on December 3, 2005 03:17 AM
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