I actually forgot to complain about something when I spoke about the gym last month. I tend to go to the gym first thing in the morning. This is mostly because I am an early riser, but I also just find it to generally be the best time to do it in that there is…
Tag: China
The Gym (in China)
I went to the gym this morning and I was impressed to have lasted more than a half hour. Apparently the management of this gym is incredibly cheap (something I know from my flatmate who teaches pole dancing their), and they thus refuse to turn the air conditioning on to keep the expenses low. I…
The G20
At some point way back in middle school I did something stupid and braty (something which I can no longer recall) that managed to alienate me from anything even closely resembling a social safety net for a number of years. By the time this all had simmered down I had bloated to nearly 300 lbs…
I scared a small child
Short anecdote this week. I was sitting on a train, getting some writing done, when I looked up the aisle to see a child walking down with his mother. As children do, he is playful slamming his hand on every chair back he passes. Until he gets to the one before mine. We make eye…
How my buddy almost lost his shit
Some time ago me and my buddy decided to go see X-men Apocalypse. We chatted on our walk to the cinema and as we walked down a street that while not crowded still had plenty of people on it the person in front of us decides to fart. Loudly. He didn’t bother to look up from…
The upper limit of human narcissism
I knew I wanted to go to Shanghai, but what the hell would I do there? I was going to hang out with a friend that lives there After all, I don’t particularly care for China, and at this point I am beyond the will to fucking learn anything. But the very same friend I was…
Spring Festival, AKA Chinese New Year
I generally suck at participation. This might be because my family was so incredibly lazy. It was always masked in a kind of iconoclastic rebellion, but it was likely the case that my family’s refusal to do anything for the American holidays was mostly just borne out of laziness. This laziness has now infected me…
Leifang Pagoda [Photo Dump]
The Liefang Pagoda at a distance. At some point or the other a buddy came to visit me and we ended up at the Leifang Pagoda, by West Lake. I had no idea what I would find their, but these would carved bas-reliefs are incredible, and worth the price on entry alone. The escalator to…
How China is making me a better person: Hygine
I’ve been a slob most of my life. I’m ok with it, actually. Slobbishness makes sense to me; the floor is where the dirty laundry belongs, at least until it accumulates enough to be washed. No mom, the fucking books don’t belong on the bookshelf because I am reading them. Yes, all ten! Jokes aside,…
Locus Horribilis 