life is funny

So, after 3 years of snubbing Blogger becuse i felt it wasn't good enough, i'm back for three weeks. it appears that Edublogs is blocked in china. Heaven knows why, but perhaps the word democracy is in one of the posts. nevermind, here is our travel logue to date.

My United flight to Shanghai last Thursday was uneventful, which according to my research was unusual. A good percentage of UAL flights are late. Landed Friday at 5:30PM, went easily through customs, took the bullet train to the edge of town followed by the subway to the train station. Shanghai (and all of china) have an incredible train and subway system. Subway trains arrived about once per minute during the Friday commute and trains were packed. our two hour train ride to Nanjing was on the 'fast train' meaning that we averaged 250 Kilometers per hour.

Did too much shopping on Saturday, recovered Sunday, and took a two hour tennis lesson on Monday with mia and her son. It was a ball, although i've never been so soaked from sweat after a match. In the meantime, i'm finally catching up on some well deserved SSR (silent sustained reading). i've accumulated a great stack of novels the past two years that sat patiently on my dresser at home awaiting their journey to and eventual disposal in Nanjing. It's a great escape.

of course, there are fires to check out on the home fronts. i'd be tempted to turn completely awayfrom the net these three weeks but between a directorship and the cue presidency, i need to stay near enough to respond but far away enough to ignore things. Vacation is restoration and i'll be more creative and energized as result. The next year for CLRN is a critical step in our transition to a more relevant model.

It's rained for two days straight, a probable result of a monsoon passing to the south of us. Who knows. we've no TV, although we did check them out at WalMart the other day. yes. WalMart.

Hope everyone survived the earthquake in CA, but i'm going back to SSR.