Confessions

Ah！Home again at last! It was another weekend in Chengdu, this time to receive a shiny new teaching award (with my name misspelled, hurrah!). It did give be a chance to give a very cheesy, but very fun performance with Phil. We did the bit where he pulled shit out of his sax, (this time with me pulling an American flag out of it.) Then we rocked out hardcore.

Other than that, this trip just showed off how many stupid things I end up doing on an almost daily basis. I had at one time thought I could pass it off as being endearing and cute, but now I think that once people get to know me, they figure out that I am basically an idiot. So, I’m just going to publicly at admit to the more stupid parts of my day yesterday.

(Well sort of publicly, since this is the least read blog on the internet…does the intense navel gazing of this blog count as a stupid thing? Probably)

1. While walking down the street, I randomly bought a pair of blue devil horns, then wore them in public for most of the evening.

2. Took part in a very long meandering walk through downtown Chengdu in the middle of the night looking for a bathroom. We wouldn’t use any bathroom that wasn’t public or an alleyway. It took a long time to find someplace, and we were not drunk.

3. On the walk I somehow lost my devil horns.

4. While staying the night with my friend, I tried to dry off my socks on his space heater, ended up burning my socks and filling his house with smoke. Then like an ass I demanding that he lend him some of his socks because I was sick and there was no way I was going outside without socks on.

5. I did not bring a toothbrush…eww.

Despite all of this, or perhaps because of it, it was one of the more fun Chengdu overnights I’ve had in quite awhile. There were tons of people in town for the awards and it was good to see folks that I haven’t talked to since this summer. Plus, it’s awesome to be home on a Saturday afternoon and not feel like the whole weekend is shot.

And luckily, I was able to get my very own copy of Grizzly Man.