The last you heard from me (well, before my Forrest Gump meditation), it was March 2011 and I was reveling in handcrafted cheese. What happened to the rest of 2011? Was I stuck in some sort of lactose-induced coma? I guess you could say my life was feeling pretty normal, too mundane. Kind of like [...]
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A blog update is certainly long overdue, what’s the deal? Hmm… well, I got a job. No more lazy days around the house for me. I’m working 9:30 am to 7:30 pm everyday (monday to friday) writing, writing, writing all day long and that leaves me with very little time for doing much more than [...]
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Believe it or not, I have really missed blogging. Every day lots of little interesting things happen and I immediately think, “Oh, I could blog about that.” Then I almost always think, “Add that to the never-ending list of things I should be blogging about.” In fact I’ve kinda been obsessing over my need to [...]
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Seems all I do these days is navel-gaze! Here’s another post along those lines. I’m participating in a “Get Back to Blogging” event on the SITS website (a site & forum for blogging support) and our first assignment was to repost our very first blog post. Here’s mine. (Actually, my second because the first was [...]
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Please excuse me, I’m feeling a little bit sorry for myself. I wrote a post yesterday about all the things I love about Beijing, but today I can’t seem to let myself post it. I’m moody. I’m wondering when exactly our lives will be totally back on track. The waiting period of the last three [...]
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So you might have noticed that I’ve taken some time off. Let’s just say that I’ve been out on a “snow day.” Never mind that it has been a miserably hot summer in Beijing. Perhaps we can just refer to the past couple of months as my heat stroke period, the way Picasso had a [...]
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Learning to Talk on the Radio “Internet, Global Gal 1976, Good Morning.” “Good Morning, Global Gal 1976, Go ahead.” “Global Gal 1976, We will require a delay of several days in posting to blog due to imminent ICAO Aviation English exam and realization that we do not know how to talk on the radio. Request [...]
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Hmm… yea… August 3rd… What a great start to my renewed blogging! Without turning this entry into a complete complaint-fest, let me just say we are having some Internet issues, hopefully now resolved. What do you think of the new look? I’m not 100% sure this is how it will stay. I’ve got a new [...]
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We’re just hanging out, trying to find as much shade as possible! Barring any exciting developments, (like Linyi making the international press again), Global Gal will resume blogging August 1st. See you then! En Español: Aqui estamos, buscando sombrilla! Si no pasa nada importante, volverá al blog el 1 de agosto!
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Is hiatus latin for hating it when you just can’t blog? I feel the need to post something here explaining my absence – that I might be absent for a little while. No particular reason other than I’ve just got writer’s block at the moment. I will be back, I do have stories and photos [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
