I am all alone this Christmas. Having to work on 24th and 27th, and not having a car, I couldn't go many places, especially not outside of UK.
Things would have been much better if I was all alone in the house, but one of my (many) housemates is also here, and as we don't see eye to eye, it's just uncomfortable. I guess moments like this are good for someone like me. This might be a motivator to push me into trying to get a place of my own. I just don't want to buy a small -pardon my french- crap place that I will hate. I really could use some lottory winings. Hope you are well and that life is good over in China. The card looks beautiful. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009 to you. PS. I will also be at home alone on new years eve and new years day. I am a sad sad person who is too lazy to find new friends in her new location. Thank God for emails and facebook, at least my old friends are there to keep me company.
Nice to hear from you again, Earthling - but I hope you're not having to spend the whole of the holiday period using the Internet in the nearest public library.
Here's hoping for better things for all of us in '09!
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
2 comments:
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too.
I am all alone this Christmas. Having to work on 24th and 27th, and not having a car, I couldn't go many places, especially not outside of UK.
Things would have been much better if I was all alone in the house, but one of my (many) housemates is also here, and as we don't see eye to eye, it's just uncomfortable. I guess moments like this are good for someone like me. This might be a motivator to push me into trying to get a place of my own. I just don't want to buy a small -pardon my french- crap place that I will hate. I really could use some lottory winings.
Hope you are well and that life is good over in China. The card looks beautiful.
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009 to you.
PS. I will also be at home alone on new years eve and new years day. I am a sad sad person who is too lazy to find new friends in her new location. Thank God for emails and facebook, at least my old friends are there to keep me company.
Greetings,
Earthling
Nice to hear from you again, Earthling - but I hope you're not having to spend the whole of the holiday period using the Internet in the nearest public library.
Here's hoping for better things for all of us in '09!
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