No. 1 Wildcats Lost For The First Time This Season To The Florida Gators (8-7)

No. 1 Wildcats lost for the first time this season to the Florida Gators (8-7)

Quail in rose petal sauce. Today we ate this dish, and Gertrudis ran away.

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Typhoon Show 2012, Elements

Shot for The Daily Northwestern, also so my colleague (#2) could show her parents what she's been up to.

Beijing Days 8 and 9:

1. Walked down the street chugging a 600 mL bottle of 燕京.

2. Witnessed firsthand the long-term effects of female infanticide on mosh pit demographics. Also took my first shot of absinthe.

3. Jogged in circles in Olympic Park.

4. Took a day trip to a mental hospital to film the treatment of committed patients. Got censored so hard.

5. Watched Archer season three.

6. Made dumplings.

Beijing Day Five: 三里屯

So Beijing gives me a lot of hope for the future of China. Unlike Shanghai, which is mainly a city of crooks, Beijingers are civilized. There's no public spitting, blatant littering or rampant pick-pocketing. People will apologize if they accidentally bump into you. Subway passengers will allow others to disembark prior to squeezing onto the train. So what if there's so much pollution you can stare directly at the sun without feeling a thing? At least the elderly don't encourage their grandbabies to poop in the street. 

Nevertheless, northerners have a painfully stunted cuisine compared to that of Shanghai. Yet compared to the US there's really no comparison at all, and frankly there's just no way around the simple fact that life is pretty good right now.

More macro of ugly fuchsia flowers, courtesy of my mother's garden.

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