I had another lesson with my Chinese tutor today, and I’m finally getting to the point where I can hold some level of (clunky) conversation, switching between Mandarin and English as we need. She lives in Xi’an and we were talking about lots of things like the weather and how it sucks is typically in FL. Then we got into how she has never visited America and wanted to know more about it. Fuck man. She was flabbergasted to the point of not believing she understood me properly when I explained that homeless people get arrested (more polite than saying get the shit kicked out of them or literally killed) for sleeping on public benches. I told her about private and public schooling, and about how I used to go to a richer private high school and there were still kids doing crazy shit like ripping soap dispensers off the walls to spray them everywhere, kicking in doors, and going 65 in the parking lot for fun. I didn’t even tell her about the fights. She was mortified and that isn’t even remotely bad by USian standards. Apparently the CPC recently mandated the amount of homework students recieve be decreased? I didn’t even know about that. Comedic level of juxtaposition.

I used to keep a colony of trapjaw ants (O. brunneus for anyone curious) as pets. Had them for almost three years. Raised them from the queen to dozens of workers. I loved those damn things; always wanted to keep them when I was a kid. They suddenly died today, don’t know how. Main theories are nest dehydration cuz of a shitty hygrometer or poisonous food. I just made such a nice terrarium to move them into that they’ll never get to enjoy now =(. I cried, said a few words for them, and returned them to the earth.

Goodbye Medusa & the Girls.

My sister’s history teacher was talking about politics and did the horseshoe theory bullshit. I don’t expect any better from an American school.

He used the Burger King crown as an example of how both fascism and communism become equally bad. The Burger King crown. This country needs to be boiled in order to sanitize it.

Gommunism is when burger.