hello from unemployedsville. today is my first official day as a member of the non-working class, and let me tell you, it did feel good to wake up at 8 and go right back to bed. unfortunately, days without work are kinda long and hard to fill. its 230 and i'm just about tapped. but then again, i think thats because i'm in that transitory period where i haven't quite settled into how i am going to spend my time. i'm pretty sure i'll find my groove, and anyway its just a few months. so yeah.
on friday i met up with one of my old kiwi roommates from the summer i studied here on a grant from swarthmore, otherwise known as the summer that i drank away a couple thousands dollars and didn't have much to show for it. it had been two years, but it was nice to see that neither of us had changed much. i mean we still got along really well. except i guess my tolerance has gone down. because i spent all of saturday in bed willing myself not to throw up.
then on saturday night i went to see a modern dance performance that mike hatch's friend allison was involved with. its so cool to see chinese arts stuff, and to see that they are really learning to express themselves creatively, even if a lot of times their art feels a little overly influenced by western styles. but i have a lot of friends that are working with chinese artists, and its really something that seems so cool and exciting, i wish my language skills were good enough to have a job like that. at this point i kind of feel like its too late, and anyway i'm not particularly interested enough in chinese art to commit the time and energy to making a go of it, but it really is such a cool thing to do. and it is really cool to see how the expatriate community is changing in nature here, how there are so many people who come and are really committed to interacting in a significant way with the chinese and with the chinese culture. okay i'm rambling now i think, so i'm gonna check out. but i'll try to keep up with the updating.