Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, November 7th, 2009
vampyre_kitty	10:16a	food. love. yum! Just watched Tyler Florence make "ultimate" mac n cheese, creamy roasted tomato soup, and arugula salad on food network.  Want to try so bad! But already have plans for dinner tonight, and don't want to go out to the store to buy a bunch of whole other ingredients. Will have to try some other time. But yummers! Also.... yesterday night, grilled cheese and tomato sammiches, cambell's creamy tomato soup, and a movie with friends.  So awesome I didn't even need to make popcorn! Can life get any better? =) PS Best boyfriend ever is so good at taking care of me when I'm sick.  Has been keeping me well supplied with soup and tea and medicine.  HE RAWKS! Current Mood: grateful (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
taschenrechner	7:30p	20:15 Hell yes. Replaced the power supply on my tv. Back to watching inane shit on 56 inches of 1080i. # 21:17 And as for watching inane TV. I'm watching some sort of "Pimp My Ride" like show on TLC. They're pimping out a Maybach??? Why??? # 16:36 @jizzmatic2000 puhpundikkuwuh to duh squayuh. We stand bowd wike Fware. Escape fwom yuh dwagons wair. In puhtikkuhwuh... # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (1 Comment |Comment on this)
lalaoshi	6:14p	Low-grade China dissident to reinvent self in suburbs Li Chunming, a former central TV reporter, said in October he would take his political dissidentary, a common social disease in fast-changing China, to the hilly Beijing suburbs as early as next year to farm the dry land and open an underground journalism school. He also plans to go online for the first time. But the ambitious plan hinges on Li, who has already trimmed his mane and tamed the rangy glare that made him look only slightly crazier than he is and that unhinged foreign journalists who he had offered to help over the past six years, getting a 600,000 yuan payout from his old central Beijing house that was razed in 2002. Payout negotiations between Li, likely score of 0, and the city of Beijing, probable score of 1, are set to conclude by year's end, Li told Laowiseass in an exclusive Starbucks interview. "They don't want me to disclose the settlement," he said, adding that he'd tell Laowiseass. Li plans to buy a mu (go convert that yourself if you prefer hectares) of vacant land in the Mentougou district for a new house. He aims to plant corn on the remaining turf, on which he insists that a creek must flow. "Yeah right dude, this is the Beijing desert," Laowiseass said. The house will also double as a secret journalism school, said Li, about 50, who fears that without training to do their own thing China's younger scribes will remain mere notetakers for the state. But that ambitious plan hinges on Li dodging cops that trail him before every major government event to make sure he doesn't protest. Otherwise, the heat will blaze down on his one-room schoolhouse, blazing a trail to reeducation camp for for both the headmaster and his students. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
taschenrechner	7:30p	09:55 Just went in on a case of Brawndo with a guy from work. # 09:56 Went to a meeting to bitch out these guys for not doing their paperwork and thus losing traceability. Was told by one that he couldn't read. # 09:57 Fuck that! I'm paid to weld, not read! # 11:23 Damn I thought that the guy was playing around, but it turns out that he can't actually read. # 13:20 @cmchittom I think it just means that they want the person in that role to do their job. # 14:14 @cmchittom well yeah, but it sounds like it belongs on a job description or resume as filler # 16:43 Listening to people rant about themselves and offer critiques on coworkers. If X isn't qualified, that's not your decision.... Fuuuuuuuuuuck # 17:04 Oh hell yes! Back to back Creed on the radio! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr RRR # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
afoxdrinksblood	3:16a	Good TV has the hearts of the writers inside. Bad TV has a heart of greed alone. (Comment on this)
Friday, October 30th, 2009
lalaoshi	8:48a	Scores fall as teacher works overtime at elite school Student sits out a class in China When schools in China push children today to learn English with no self-evident reason except to pass tests because we said you had to pass, the students tune out, a break from the more study-hard, ask-no-questions past. In a mid-October e-mail, a Chinese national who teaches at an elite school in Fujian province described her workload and her impact on the student exam scores: "What hell are the kids now doing? What are they interested in nowadays? They showed more talents while they were still babies. Why do they become this stupid when it comes to English learning? "It's a big task for me. My other colleagues may call me 'insane' if I carry this on. Nobody is gonna pay for the extra time working, hah. Look at my schedule each day: 6:30, getting up----7:00, going to work without breakfast----7:15, starting work after a small breakfast----1:15, off work----14:00, starting afternoon work----16:30, off work again----18:00, starting evening work----20:40, off work the last time. Then, showering, checking homework, preparing the next day's lessons (sometimes I still need to do some (score) calculation work, 'thanks to' the damn evaluation system in our school. The students are given 100 points each term, and we add or minus points according to their performances every day-----it's killing to meet with those numbers each time. I usually go to bed at 12:00 a.m. or later. "The average mark in our grade (eighth) is about 20 points lower, comparing with those in the past. Our school leaders, huhu, have talked to us many times, trying to find problems and the solution. However, things are getting worse. The problem we are now running into is a big one, a tough one. We are working hard, toward the right direction, we are not pushing them too hard----we are trying to put ourselves into their shoes every now and then, but things are not getting better----they can love their English teachers, but this contributes nothing to their English learning----they still score low next time. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
zhongwen [ dailyunderhill ]	2:14p	Online Classical Chinese Dictionary? Have any of you had any luck using an internet based Classical Chinese dictionary? I have a physical dictionary for Classical, but am looking for something more extensive. I know that sometimes 在线新华字典 and some general Chinese - English dictionaries will have 文言 entries, but I need something with specific grammar explanation and citations. Thanks, all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)