Updates

First of all, blogger is still blocked and posting is a difficult affair, but I will put an update up in the near future. 

For now, pictures!  A new picture scheme.  Artsy pics go on Flickr .  Documentary stuff goes on Photobucket.  There is still some stuff on picasa, but i cant see it anymore so nothing new there. 

There is new stuff on both flickr and photobucket now.

Updates:

After Thailand I went to shangri-la in NW yunnan for a week long conference on sustainable land management.

Then there were two weeks back in kunming, finishing up at the forestry university, correcting obscene amounts of very very poor scientific papers about wood defect detection and land use change risk analysis, and studying for the second half of the GRE. 

Then there was the shanghai ultimate tournament.

Then two weeks house/puppying sitting at a friend's hutong place in beijing.

Then a week on the beach in weihai to celebrate the 4th. 

And now back here for a while.  Just started interning/ working for free at an NGO here doing more forestry research and preping for a conference next year. 

I made a pair of running sandals yesterday using some rubber sole material and some hemp rope. The fit and feel great.  I will wear them around for a week or so and see what they can do.  Then it will be down to the shoe repair wholesale market to find better sole material and maybe some leather laces for the second pair.

I made beer this week too.  A friend and i persuaded a local restaurant to sell us some malted barely and hops...we then spend 5 hours roasting barely to make our dark beer. Another 3 or so grinding it in a blender.  Jerry rigged a mashing/ sparging tub and then brewed away.  It is happily bubbling away as we speak. I predict drinking in early aug. 

Starting to think and plan a cross china motorcycle trip for late aug and sept.  Plan is to buy a chinese 125cc bike and a good helmet and go off to see the countryside.  As plans develop updates to come.

Getting pretty homesick for certain things. Hiking, the great outdoors, friends, social community, the ease of getting around and getting things done, and maybe pizza. 

Starting to apply for jobs/ internships for this fall.  In china, abroad, and in the US.  If you have any ideas let me know.  Also applying for stuff starting in Jan 2010.  

And of course starting to think about grad school and applying this fall for fall 2010.