Terra!!!

I'm so psyched (but sorry to break up the Flomo love, and also pissed about Danny being in Okada. Fuckers).

But first of all, let me tell you guys - I just about had a heart attack about half an hour ago. First of all, I haven't had internet access for about 3 weeks because of fun technical difficulties (it's very complicated, but it basically boils down to that I'm in China, so I can go piss up a rope). So I get online to check my email and check our blog (I haven't even started to put up stuff on my own blog... that will definitely be a fun project...), and I see you all posted where you're living.

Now, I am completely flipping out. I don't remember applying for housing, let alone having already found out where I live. Then I check the housing website and they say that the application for winter quarter housing was due on October 28. When did this all happen? Why didn't anyone tell me? AHHHHHHHH, I'm in fucking China, how I am supposed to know what's going on? Aren't I supposed to be the responsible one?!?!?... so on and so forth. So I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown, downloading proxy forms to fill out and give to Julia so that I can get her to attend a walk-in meeting for me to see if there are any spaces. Then I check the housing office's online list of open spaces, and in all of the dorms on campus the open spaces amount to zero, zip, nada, zilch. Shit! Next I'm thinking who will let me crash on their couch for the entire quarter, and figuring that maybe I'll have to buy a futon and move into Stern basement...

Then, hey, I think, maybe I applied for housing and just don't remember. So I go onto Axess, spend 10 minutes trying to remember where the frikkin' housing section is, and then finally reach the climactic moment (after the 5 minute wait because of being in China).... and....I apparently applied for housing in June before I left, and there it was: Terra. I about started crying. And then I decided I was too emotionally strung up to do homework, so I wrote this blog entry.

Anyway, I hope you guys are doing well - I'm OK, but I want to get the fuck out of this country. It was alright for a while, but I think the -15 degree weather and the sun setting at 4pm started to get to me. Then there's the greasy food (you know things are bad when McDonald's starts to seem like a healthy alternative), the annoying gender-stereotyping everywhere (I just want to meet a Chinese woman who says "fuck it" and stops dieting), the having to be super-closeted, and all of my classes consisting mainly of rote memorization (that's what learning language is all about, in the end). Then we also just found out that apparently there was an explosion at a petrochemical plant in a town upstream from us, so there will be no running water for about a week as the government "cleans up" the river. Yay for development! OK, OK, I'll stop whining. China really has been a learning experience, but I just want some regular food and to speak English now. Is that too much to ask?

p.s. If anybody responds, I can't actually see the comments on this blog (I can only even see your guys' posts from the "edit posts" page of blogger rather than the actual blog site, because the chinese government has banned the blogspot URL where our page is hosted. Yay!)