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30 April 2008
It's blogging time again. Back in my preferred chair in Starbucks Jusco, feeling a little frustrated by the horrifically slow internet speed today. I was unable to connect at school as it was totally down there, but even having gone out in search of interwebs I'm having trouble. Seems to be purely a matter of too many people here with too many laptops, but the connection sucks. It's slow and very patchy, meaning I can't sit and flick through half a dozen websites while downloading three different things and chatting on msn, as I'm prone to do when bandwidth allows. Still, perhaps it will help me concentrate. In some ways I think it's amazing that we ever get anything done with so much to distract us. The internet, being practically infinite, provides practically infinite possibilites for distraction and timewasting. That is both a beautiful and a terrible thing.Tomorrow is the 1st of May, and consequently a national holiday. Which is nice, in that it means another half-week of teaching for me, but annoying in that that it means everything is extremely crowded and busy. Today's bus journey over to Jusco produced a new entry in my mental log of bizarre sights: four full-sized coaches full of brides and grooms, fully dressed up in wedding attire, tiaras, corsages and all. Not entirely sure what they were doing or where they were going, although I know that many Chinese couples come to Qingdao to take wedding photos against the backdrop of sea and rocks and picturesque buildings. So perhaps that is what they were up to. Either that or they were off to challenge the world record for most couples married simultaneously. Who knows...? I told myself I'd read War & Peace, and as it was sent to me at frightening expense I really need to... somehow though up until now I've been putting it off. Watched the most recent film incarnation of the Hitchhiker's Guide last night, and was not hugely impressed. I didn't really expect to be, though. Perhaps it's just because I know the original book so well, and as read by Douglas Adams himself, or perhaps it's because Zooey Deschanel irritates me, but it wasn't quite right somehow. It certainly wasn't a travesty, but I wouldn't have done it that way had I been the director. I need some more movies to watch, though, as I'm getting bored of watching the ones I have over and over again. If only the selection weren't so limited... utterly utter [
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