Government crushes bird flu, saves people

I've been reading hundreds of articles on bird flu from various Chinese media for work. The point is basically to look at changes in media openness through a particular case study. For the most part it's mind-numbingly dull, as the reports are just page after page of government boosterism, but occasionally I find an amusing article here and there. My favorite was this picture from CCTV's Focus, showing the effective measures the government took to prevent spread of the disease:

I wish you could get a 360 degree view of the scene. I think this guy in a white plastic suit is just standing by himself in the middle of nowhere waiting for trucks to come by. Also key is the disinfecting sprayer he's using, which is the same model I bought for use on Kite Runner. We filled it with a mixture of water and glue and used it to stick shredded paper on trees. It broke after a day.

Epilogue

For the sake of closure, I am finally writing an epilogue to this epic blogue. I didn't end up sailing home, but I did go sailing once I got home. Here is proof: I'm sure you can all tell from the photo that it's me.

My sweet crib

Finally moved into my new place. I spent the last three days pretty solidly looking for housing. The first day I made an appointment with this agent who usually finds housing for ACC alumni. I figured she would be good since Meghan had recommended her, and Jin Laoshi brought her up the other day. She took me to see four places that day, and was very cordial and paid for my water and transportation and all, and offered to take me to a peach orchard sometime, but her houses were dumps. The first place was a joke. She said, "I figure you'll want a cheap place, so let's go see this one first, I'm sure it will be right for you." We took a bus for half an hour to get there, on the north side of Chaoyang Park. We walked off the main street a ways, past one of those big trash piles which naturally accumulate in public spaces, and down this little alley with squat shoddy brick housing. I waited for ten minutes while she fiddled with the door to the courtyard, whic...

Change in Plans

I quit my job. This is all I have been talking about lately so I will just sum it up briefly. On Saturday I went to my boss' place to put in some extra hours and mark up the script for VFX and SFX. This was to be the beginning of my long-awaited training. But the producers were coming in the next night and there was a lot of preparation that had to be done, so I actually spent the entire day fussing with my boss' little notebook computer to get the new schedule and translate and send it out, along with a whole bunch of little emails. I did this all sitting across from her in a coffee shop with an unstable internet connection, while she sat there making phone calls and lecturing me off and on for how poor suited I was for the film business. She insisted I work in front of her that day, because she said I would waste time making mistakes and asking questions if she wasn't there. It was so tedious to work on her computer with no mouse, no Chinese input, and unstable inte...

Peaceful Rise

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