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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - alone. Haggling rule number 6: Someone else will always get a better price than you. Just take deep breaths and try not to be pissed about it. I’m in a weird mood today. It could be my four hours’ of sleep last night, class from 8 AM to 5 PM, eating sushi for the first time in almost two months followed by spontaneous evening shopping. Or it could be that for the first time in a long, long time, I’m going to fall asleep in an empty house. I should be used to it – I had my own apartment for over a year before China, and loved not having to talk to people on my way to the bathroom in the mornings. But during the summer, I have always slept with other people in the house, if not in the same room, and in China, I have had other people in the same apartment with me. But now, Hannah is in Shanghai, due to a freak stroke of luck that’ll render her a feature piece in the Times, an all-expenses paid business trip and insane compensation. I was really happy for her and didn’t think much of being alone in the apartment for a few days. But tonight, as I walked up the stairs and unlocked both doors for the first time in a while (they’re unlocked when one of us is home), I suddenly realized how uncomfortable I felt. There was no one to say hi to and no one to talk to, and most importantly, there was no one else but me in the apartment. I hadn’t really realized before just how much I’d gotten used to having people around me – it’s not that I’m afraid of the dark or anything, (I’m mostly afraid of silly things like creepy-crawlies, clowns and Jack in the Box) it’s just that I didn’t realize how comforting it is just to feel someone’s presence and know they’ll be back, if I’m temporarily alone in the apartment. I don’t like being alone. (I'm sleepy and going to bed now. I'll be back to my normal mood tomorrow - lots to tell, lots to write about.) |
this is fun, its not like blogging its like interactive... and i like it... i feel like i dont have to write a great big long essay that noone but a future version of me will read... that and you update so frequently im ashamed at my own incompetence.
and you sometimes respond, thats the coolest bit...
dont be afraid to be on your own its to much fun... this is when you get to run around the house nakkid and stupid and pee with the door open... you get to pick your nose in the kitchen and you get to sing at the top of your lungs totally off key... and dance... to your own singing.
its just to much fun.
i get like half an hour to myself at our apartment and i love every second of it i get to just be a total slob watch tv with my fingers down my waist band and sing at the top of my lungs to cheezy commercials.
i guess its different when you know noones comming home, but its not like you dont have friends you can invite over! and get shloshed on that hardass vokda wannabe stuff!
oh and fart... the loud horrific kind... and you even get to sniff and judge... thats fun too... and decide what it was that you ate that smells like rotten eggs.... HAHAHAHAHAHAA
LOL I'm beginning to look forward to your comments, it's a great way to start the morning =) I always respond, it's just that it takes some time - but check out your other comments now!
Anyhoo, with your wisdom in mind, I'll try to do all the things you mentioned save two (Hint: the smelly and drunken suggestions will remain suggestions), gotta hurry up, she gets back tomorrow... fingers down your waist band eh, how very, uh, male of you =P Guys seem to have no problems with sticking their hands down and adjusting in public, it always get me.
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