The perils of Chinese internet

Boy, it has been a really, really long time since I've had internet access in any significant way. And today the trend continues! However, I am heading to Hanoi, Vietnam on a night plane tonight (along with my intrepid parents!) and we will have a computer wired to the internet in our room. So: fingers crossed! If all goes well there should be a lot of photo-rich entries coming your way.

Technical difficulties

My apologies: it's been awhile since I posted, but I have a good excuse: the internet cafe I've been going to in Lanping seems not to accept Blogspot cookies, and so I can't sign in. I sent this post to my mother to take care of for me-- that's the solution I came up with. I'll be moving on (I hope) to Liuku on Monday, so I can hopefully start posting again. I have a lot to say.

But for now I'm afraid I'll have to leave it at an apology. I've been very stressed out about thesis/research topic stuff the past few days and I seem to have gotten myself into a pretty significant funk. So I think I'll go back to our hotel and eat some chocolate (if I can manage an appetite, my stomach has been acting very oddly) and go to bed early. Tomorrow is a new day...right?