and now, for bachelor number two- the 35-year-old virgin reports that she went out with him last weekend. he was tall and handsome, the virgin says, but he was not charming. even though he's 31, she said he seemed really young. i dunno if this was chinese code for him being retarded or something, but she was not feeling it. so i asked her if this meant the first bachelor was in the lead. she said yes. "even though he is not tall," which we now know means that he is fat, "the most important thing is that he has the ability to get richer." yipes! apparently the other guy doesn't seem like he has many opportunities to advance his career. he works for some kind of sports corporation. i asked about the third bachelor, but it seems that i was kind of confused on this count. the third guy is a friend of hers from college who has made romantic overtures to her by email. he is currently living in africa working for the embassy, but he will be back within the year. she has told me about him before, and i'm not quite convinced that he exists, but i guess we'll see. anyway, she said she'll go out with bachelor number 1 again and see how it goes.
as for me, i was the only person in the station wagon shuttle to work today (there's also the van shuttle), so i felt like a very important person being driven to work. and i had fabulous all you can eat japanese for dinner last night, including beer, for 68 kuai (about 9 dollars). awesome!