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languages (Chinese), literature, music (I study the erhu!), travel, film, piracy, my friends, my family, listening to Wang Yao sing, smoking up and smoking down, donkey punching Mike, pretending like I know what I'm doing, playing video games high at the internet bar on cold nights with nothing else to do, shit talking, streetwalking, riding the bus around town, helping my friends bargain for cell phones, the monkey king, Chenggis Khan, pterodactyls, being despised by intellectuals and despising them right back, being red and expert, infecting my computer with viruses and then removing them, teaching 14 year olds about the dangers of pseudoscience and African colonialism, rockstars, making coffee, pondering the evolutionary path of the ground sloth, tasing Amir, watching amy kill puppies by accident, knowing what happened to atlantis, deep conversations in the cutlery aisle at wal mart, home, confusing the Chinese, being confused by the Chinese, writing, translation, and so on.Music
Television, Pavement, Modest Mouse, Max Romeo, Toots and the Maytals, Marley, The People's Rhythm, Arken, J5, The Flaming Lips, CCCP, CSI, Radiohead, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Tristeza, Spoon, The Good Life, Cursive, The Ramones, SiQinGeLe, Xu Wei, Dou Wei, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastian, Mayday, Death Cab for Cutie, Zhang Chu, Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Pinback, The Pixies, Explosions in the Sky, Miles Davis, The Buena Vista Social Club, Manu Chao, Adnan Sami Khan, Asha Bholse, Ravi Shankar, Talvin Singh, Spiritualized, DJ Shadow, DJ Mael, DJ DSK, Shan Ren Band, Spring and Autumn, Han Ying, A-Hong, Lao Wai, Nie Chang, Xiao Ou, Xiatian, and my amazingly talented Wang YaoMovies
To Live, Life on a String, Umberto D, Buffalo 66, Casino, Ran, Raise the Red Lantern, Closer, Motorcycle Diaries, Kekexili, Dances With Wolves, Heat, Boogie Nights, Red Sorghum, Happiness, Microcosmos, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Marriage of Tuya, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tommy Boy, Office Space, The Killing Fields, The Seven Samurai, The Thin Red Line, The Last King of Scotland, Happy Times ... this list could take forever to write ...Television
Books
Stranger in a Strange Land; Midnight's Children (and Salman Rushdie in general); A Suitable Boy; Red Azalea (Anchee Min); The Defiant Ones; Divorce, Chinese Style; The Corrections; Orientalism; Writing Diaspora; Pascal Khoo Twe; The Trouser People; Birds Without Wings; The FLTRP Chinese/English English/Chinese Dictionary; The Absorbent Mind (Maria Montessori); The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brian); and basically anything in the English language I can get my hands on over here (beggars can't be choosers).Heroes
My mother and father, who never for a second stopped loving each other, no matter how rough things got. Bless them, they ruined me for the real world.
Latest Blog Entries
- May 16, 2007 3:49 PM New Blog
- Oct 27, 2006 6:27 AM Cityscape
- Sep 29, 2006 7:31 AM man versus beast
- Sep 22, 2006 6:57 PM The promised photo
- Sep 19, 2006 9:02 AM It's official
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Who I'd like to meet:
CounterrevolutionariesDetails
- Status: Married
- Hometown: Charleston, SC
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 5' 5" / Slim / Slender
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Atheist
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Children: Someday
- Smoke / Drink: Yes / Yes
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Teacher
Schools
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School For International Training
- Brattleboro,Vermont
- Graduated: 2003
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Chinese Minority Studies
2003 to 2003 -
The University Of Texas At Austin
- Austin,Texas
- Graduated: 2003
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Asian Studies
- Minor: Radio - Television - Film
2001 to 2003 -
Richardson H S
- Richardson,Texas
- Graduated: 1998
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
1997 to 1998 -
Academic Magnet High School
- No. Charleston,South Carolina
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: None
1994 to 1997
Companies
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English First
- Kunming, Yunnan CN
- Teacher
Oct. 2004 until June 2006 -
Wancheng/Pathways International Education Center
- Kunming, Yunnan CN
- Academic Director
July 2006 to present
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10 of 95MoreHey! How are you doing in Beijing? Is it cooling down up there yet? We are still 90+ degrees everyday and I'm getting tired of it!
Yeah, we are really excited about the baby except for the fact that I got rid of all of JiaQi's baby stuff besides her crib. I didn't realize I was going to have another one so soon or I would have kept some of the stuff! JiaQi is in that "terrible twos" stage and I am ready to skip it! If I could fast forward through any time it would be the two year old stage lol. I think every other word that comes out of my mouth is "NO!"
How's Dylan doing now? Is he walking? Saying anything yet? That age is such a good age :)
You guys should have another! Close siblings are so much fun :)
so jay and i just might pick up and move to china. finally. possibly maybe. thoughts?
those are really nice pictures
yeah didn't get too far before i got knocked out for two weeks! but i'm doıng great, but have had to take it easy. send my love!
just wanted to send you all a hello and ı mıss you
it has not been march since you last checked this has it???
Happy Birthday Jess! Hope you're having some kind of shindig to celebrate! Thinking about you and the fam'. Peace in the middle-east and one love and all that. 8) ttyl
sheng ri kuai le. hope this year is a fabulous one. big hugs to baby d.
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jess just got a great job.
she's gonna be a VP.
and she's gonna get paid some hundred K.
congratulations, missy. jia you!
lunch any time you're free...