so as of today i've been in shanghai a full week. last week was an alzheimer's-like haze of trying to remember street names and bar names and feeling very befuddled when i tried to recall my chinese, which was crappy to begin with.
my good friend is here, staying with us, and she had four friends in tow visiting from SF for a week. they've since gone, so my life is settling in to what i assume will be its regular schedule for a while - wake up with trev, make coffee, absorb as much news as possible without obsessing, study chinese for an hour or so, try to find work.
while our social lives here are definitely more lively than they were in other cities, for shanghai it's definitely scaled back. that may have to do with trevor and i being on a serious budget. two expensive graduate school educations + 1 salary = oh damn. we ain't gots no money.
i'm trying to network, but short of the point where i feel like i'm putting too much pressure on myself to "get out there," something that from me requires lots of effort, but for other people is just second nature. i'm slowly acclimating and sending out feelers. trying not to hold myself up against other people's methods and abilities, but it's hard. trev gets on me to not push myself so much, which is kind of funny ironic if you think about it.
tonight i'm having a girls' dinner at our friend marc's restaurant, fulton place, which is one of the nicer places in town. i'm very much looking forward to it. up until now, a lot of socializing has been in big, somewhat raucous groups, sometimes jameson-fueled. it's the first time i've been to his place since it opened while i was in absentia, so i'm really looking forward to seeing the space and sampling some tasty eats!
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