Early Musings

1. Just when you didn't think that I could get any sweatier, I move to macau, where the humidity here makes Houston feel like the ice tundra. And yes, I do keep a spare shirt in my office.

2. Well this is new... In China, I'm apparently a heartthrob. 5 female students have already expressed their love for me. Hot female teachers, I guess I know how you feel.

3. I found out that there's a morality clause in my contract, since I work in a Catholic school. If I'm caught doing anything blatantly immoral, I can be fired. Good thing no school official will ever be out with me on the weekend.

4. Tofu is gross. In America. In China. I've done my best to try everything since I've been here. The steamed tofu made me want to vomit. It's dessert form is vile. It's even pretty bad deep fried. 3 strikes, you're out. (chicken foot though...not bad at all)

5. I blame Bill Simmons for his 9/02/10 podcast, but I have a inexplicable craving to watch all 10 seasons of Beverly Hills 90210.

6. China has yet to get the memo that Lebron is no longer on the Cavs. Or don't care to bring in any new advertisement until he gets a ring. Kobe reigns supreme here, well, after Yao i guess.

7. I'm amused that manikins in China are in the image of Caucasians. They're dressed in very Chinese looking clothes though. It's the little things that amuse me.

8. Don't wear a suit to the casino in Macau. Nobody else does, and you'll get really sweaty.

9. I miss good beer. Although alcohol is cheap as dirt here (22 oz tsingtao is ~75 cents), China wouldn't know a dark beer from dirty river water.

10. Google and Youtube both work here. Pandora and Hulu do not. I'm not suffering though...