back to china, back to school, back to sleep
i’m 80 hours into my second stint in shanghai … and finally coherent enough to sit in front of my iBook without my head bobbing up and down as if sleep was controlling it with a string. i thought i had the jet lag cured when i went to bed at 8:30 monday night and didn’t wake up until 6 o’clock tuesday morning (i have been told that i spoke on the telephone for approximately 25 minutes at some point during the night — the details of the conversation remain a mystery to me), but i was wrong. after only a few hours of shuteye, i woke up at 5 a.m. today, and couldn’t get back to sleep. it’s hard to snooze when your body thinks it’s time for the evening news … and i don’t even watch the evening news. strange.
09.03.2003, 1:07 PM · Observations, School
DVDos and DVDon’ts
perhaps i was bored. more likely, i was procrastinating doing something that really mattered. but for whatever reason, in the days leading up to my return to shanghai, i organized and cataloged all the DVDs i purchased in china last year. there are almost 200 titles on the list. which means the entire collection cost less than $200. all of these discs were purchased on the black market (which is actually rather out in the open here), but their quality, for the most part, is very good — and they all worked on my DVD player in the USA.
09.03.2003, 1:00 PM · Movies, Observations · Comments (1)
