here we are, vegetarians again

so it's been a while! what you you been up to? i've been garbage heap hunting (oh sorry, i mean apartments) aka discovering the worst that shanghai has to offer. it's been real. i thought san francisco was expensive, but at least you get a relatively standard floorplan and the presence of squatters is conspicuously absent. and there's no overturned wheelbarrows full of old electronic devices on what would be your stove. but you know, i'm just a spoiled american.

ok ok, it hasn't been that bad. but i'm sort of boggled baffled quietly dismayed that apartments in em-effing chi-to-the-mothafuggin-ah are so pricey. i mean, jesus. i just spent an inordinate amount of money on a year's worth of yoga classes. you'd think i'd have some friggin buying power, or at least get to pretend that i do. nope.

what's been up... i stopped to think the other day (friday?) and realized that i'd had drinks or been relatively drunk every night for over a week... of course i realized this over drinks i think, but i stopped. tonight. oh wait, no, i didn't. but i'll stop tomorrow. wait, no i won't. i only had one tonight and it had more to do with the tomato juice than wanting the vodka. i think. maybe. anyhoo. tomorrow i have some free meal booked as a tradeoff for my writing skills so inevitably there will be some drinks involved, but wednesday is all me. me me me and no booze and yoga after work and all that good stuff.

we were sitting around that fake lake next to xintiandi on saturday night (sherry's badcat picnic by the lake) and there were all these fairly large bird-like items swooping around. i thought they were oversized insects because of their light, fluttery movements, but general consensus is that they were bats. so i turned to albert and asked if bats were lighter than birds. apparently this is a really random question because he immediately started laughing and couldn't stop. i find this to be a normal topic of conversation, but apparently it's not. people laugh at you. hysterically almost. it was like a conversation you have when you're stoned... except we were drinking beers and eating coppa with baguettes, not sparking one-hitter-quitter.

anyways.

the melatonin is kicking in and the past 9 days are catching up with me. i'm getting lectures about doing cardiovascular activity, registering my domain so that my china folkies can read my shit, and all with my eyelids falling. i had bolognese tonight. i'm so tired and i need to check airfares for hong kong.

so i'm thinking just damnnearnocturnal.com. what do you think?