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August 30, 2004: Tour de Xi'an
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It was sunny yesterday with a tiny bit of blue sky peeking out. We even saw clouds! Just being able to differentiate between the color of the sky and the color of the city made my day. So instead of...

August 27, 2004: Our brush with celebrity!
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The other night Blondie and Phillip and I took a taxi downtown in search of a dumpling restaurant recommended by another English teacher. The taxi driver said he wouldn't be able to drop us off right by the restaurant, but...

August 25, 2004: Some wine with my cheese
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Yesterday I saw some bottles of Chinese wine in the little convenience store down the street and thought it might be fun to try some. BLONDIE: Chinese wine is like grape juice. MAGGIE: Well, which bottle has the highest alcohol...

August 23, 2004: Staying inside the lines
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As I have now experienced exactly three taxi rides in two different Chinese cities, I think I am qualified to say that those little stripey things they paint on the roads? Mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. One wonders why The People Who...

August 20, 2004: Leaving on a jet plane
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This is what I was dealing with this morning: And this is what it looks like now. This was accomplished while watching the entire 4 hour womens' gymnastics all around finals on the TiVo. Thanks to the suspense-ruining force that...

August 16, 2004: Five days and fourteen hours
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Dear Matt Drudge: Stop posting Olympic swimming results before I have a chance to watch the races! In other news, Phillip and I now have all of our China tickets plus a hotel reservation. We leave Saturday afternoon and get...

August 12, 2004: There's Nothing On
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Here is something you should know about me: I love TV. Especially now that my brilliant husband turned one of our forty-seven spare computers into a TiVo-like machine, thereby making it fairly conceivable that I will never have to watch...

August 9, 2004: What do you mean, I'll have to bargain?
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I know how to say two different phrases in Chinese: ni hao which I think means "hello" and and wo ai nee which is woefully mispelled and means "I love you". But I've been thinking about our upcoming trip and...

August 8, 2004: Jam? Goood.
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What to do with the 4 pounds of raspberries we brought home from Sequim? Make jam! I completely forgot to document the initial jam-making process- the mashing of the berries, the exact and careful measuring of berry goop into the...

August 4, 2004: Nature: It's dirty and there are no stores
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My aversion to Nature has already been documented on this website, so I wanted to let you know that I've just returned home alive after two nights in the wilderness- namely, the Olympic Peninsula. There was no camping, thank God,...

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