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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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NaBloPoMo Archive
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Notes on the First Anniversary of my 7th Blog
Origins I started this blog near the end of last April, impulsively, after I read the words ‘ephemera and detritus’ in a comment on a blog I’ve long since lost…
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Redemption and Delivery
One of the things I really liked about Istanbul but never took advantage of due to sheer terror of using my (self-perceived) inferior Turkish skills was the culture of delivery….
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Fast, But Not Exactly McDonalds
Sometimes when I come home from work, I’m absurdly hungry- maybe I worked through my lunch break, maybe I covered ten kilometres just pacing and monitoring in class. It has been…
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People in the Mornings
On Jiashan Lu in the morning there are streams of bicycles weaving down the road and its crowded sidewalk, pedalled by parents carrying their children to school. On our street,…
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Moving Experiences in Shanghai
I’m working on stolen wifi this evening, from the penultimate penthouse up on the 16th floor overlooking bloody well everything. Alas, we haven’t even got a phone line set up…
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Ikea as a tourist attraction
We are moving this weekend, hence this short post. We had popped out to Ikea this morning to get some paper lanterns and heavy light-blocking curtains for the sunny bedroom….
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(101 Things About Shanghai) Perspectives on Groceries
I’m pretty wussy when it comes to meat- I lean heavily towards vegetarian and would label myself a lacto-ovo-bacon vegetarian if it were an option. In Istanbul I was able…
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Living and Travelling in Politically Awkward Places
Tomorrow will be the somethingth anniversary of an event that may or may not have taken place in a way that may or may not have been reported. This event…
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I can see Alaska from my flat
We got the keys today. The new flat up on the 16th floor of the only tall building on our block is now ours for a year, if not longer….
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How to Rent a Flat in Shanghai and Maintain Your Sanity
In the past year and a half since I moved to Shanghai, I have had to move twice. The first time was two and a half months into my first…
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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…
