Monthly Archives: December 2007

12 Dec

This Post Was Going To Be Something Else…

But Emily wouldn’t let me.

10 Dec

Little Blue Book, continued yet again

Artemis’s passport arrived in time. She and I went to the Shangrila Hotel Friday morning. A foreign service officer was there in the lobby processing papers for other Americans in Qingdao. Or rather, she was explaining to most of the them why she couldn’t process their papers.
“You should have made [...]

09 Dec

Something Else I Can’t Say in Chinese

What the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have really been saying all along…

05 Dec

What I’m Reading: Mark Twain and Rolling Stone

Over a year ago I wrote a post about the Qingdao Book Club. I am happy to say it is still going strong. The membership has turned over almost completely since we joined the group, an eventuality in a club made up of ex-patriots, but it shows no signs of fizzling out. [...]