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Impractical Shanghai
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I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on That Time I Square Danced to Chinese Punk Music in the Park
09 May 2013 3:07 PM | 5 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on Stuff, Self, Place and Ridiculously Sudden Life Transitions
25 April 2013 11:56 AM | 13 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Notes on Being a Tired Hermit With Possibly Unrealistic Expectations
15 April 2013 12:27 PM | 17 Comments -
I’ll See Myself Out: Attempting Shanghai Nightlife (for Burnt Out Recluses)
19 March 2013 1:36 PM | 18 Comments -
It’s Beginning to Look Not Even Remotely Like Christmas: Faking Festiveness in Shanghai
25 December 2012 4:41 PM | 13 Comments -
Notes on Not Running Away Again: Dealing Sensibly With a Shanghai Winter
30 November 2012 2:25 PM | 18 Comments -
You look very terrible, Miss Mary: Unsolicited Advice for the Laowai
19 November 2012 4:44 PM | 15 Comments -
Managing Your Plague in China: Brief Notes on my Stupid Cold
15 November 2012 1:09 PM | 8 Comments -
Strangled Gasps of Creativity (or Why I’ll Probably Never Be a Published Author)
05 November 2012 10:58 AM | 28 Comments -
The Grass is Always Less Hazardous on the Other Side: I’m Cheating on China in my Head Again
29 October 2012 12:27 PM | 22 Comments
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Archive for May, 2010
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This Week’s Mop (and a meditation on getting my writing ass in gear)
Actual thoughtful writing should resume soon- we had a big, tiring weekend away in Nanjing for work and didn’t see daylight for two days. I tried writing a few things…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Very Thorough Haircuts
I’ve learned not to schedule a haircut for days when I have anything else that needs doing. The cutting itself usually doesn’t take much longer than an hour but I…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Grocery Photo Series
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Random Window Photo Series
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The illustration and text are wholly unrelated: Full Metal Jacket, Shanghai
Sometimes big cities really do my head in. Istanbul used to make me want to jump on the hoods of cars and kick people out of frustation for the stupid…
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
In other words, they are the people that I meet each day. We are moving in a week or so. Our landlord is moving back into our flat…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Laneways and Alleys, oh my
Shanghai’s got a lot of alleyways. I’m a huge fan of them, perhaps as a human level antidote to the carelessly changing skyscraper skyline of this city. They like things…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) I Know you Can See Me
I have no intention of singling out this city for its very thorough surveillance set up: In fact, I’d say London was worse in the privacy-violation category. However, this is…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Zoned for Crappy Pastries
ETA 12 August 2010 ExtraOrdinary has disappeared from the infamous corner and in its place is Bakery #4 in 12 months: Elysee (insert French accent aigu on first and second…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Getting from Here to There
After a bajillion years of searching real estate ads and a bazillion weekends and Wednesdays spent staring at worn, tired, spartan, absurd flats, we have finally found a new home….
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Everyone’s a Florist
We are easing into the lush and sweaty long summer season, when Shanghai overcompensates for its appalling climate by making everything all rich and verdant. The florists have all started…
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Trippy but Pointless Public Art
In the wilds of Pudong, deep down in Zhang Jiang Gaoke where I used to catch the bus to work in Lingang (don’t even ask how far away that was)…
