cindypepper! » Attn http://www.cindypepper.com Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:15:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 No More Homework! No More Books! No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks! http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/no-more-homework-no-more-books-no-more-teachers-dirty-looks http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/no-more-homework-no-more-books-no-more-teachers-dirty-looks#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:26:12 +0000 Cindy http://www.cindypepper.com/?p=405

So. It's been roughly two weeks after the fact, but I'm officially a Columbia alumna, and I have the diploma to prove it. It's odd to imagine that I'm indefinitely done with school, but I'll take whatever freedom I can eke for now. In the past two weeks, I've bought my new digs in Austin, visited the relatives in San Diego, and settled down for a month back home in Shanghai. As much I love Shanghai, I'm also majorly jetlagged1 and deprived of most of my Internet mainstays2. No Facebook? Well, shucks. No LiveJournal? Yikes. No Twitter? Cruel. No GMail for an hour? Okay, now you're just screwing with me. On the upside, Tumblr isn't banned anymore, so now I get accosted with graphics that like to constipate my Internet connection. Welcome to my life. So what does this mean? I'll probably have more free time to blog and post photos that I should have posted yonks ago. I'll probably use this chunk of time to go on short excursions within China (hi, I just got back from Hangzhou yesterday!). I'll probably tell you more about my trip to Spain/Portugal that I took almost three months ago. And if I have time, I might even throw in a redesign. Oh yeah, and I'll be trolling the Internet at weird hours and complaining that every social networking site worth updating is now banned. Yup.
footnotes: 1: If you see me online at the odd witching hour or complaining about lightheadedness at 5PM, don't worry. That's just typical me being typical. And you know what else? I hate timezones. Timezones are responsible for things like jetlag, clock adjustment, TV spoilers and people flooding up my Tumblr dashboard bitching about said spoilers. 2: Actually, if there's a bigger life-ruiner than a time zone difference, it's the Great Firewall of China. No trip back home is ever complete until I start scowling at the fact that China likes to ban every site I frequent.]]>

So. It’s been roughly two weeks after the fact, but I’m officially a Columbia alumna, and I have the diploma to prove it. It’s odd to imagine that I’m indefinitely done with school, but I’ll take whatever freedom I can eke for now. In the past two weeks, I’ve bought my new digs in Austin, visited the relatives in San Diego, and settled down for a month back home in Shanghai.

As much I love Shanghai, I’m also majorly jetlagged1 and deprived of most of my Internet mainstays2. No Facebook? Well, shucks. No LiveJournal? Yikes. No Twitter? Cruel. No GMail for an hour? Okay, now you’re just screwing with me. On the upside, Tumblr isn’t banned anymore, so now I get accosted with graphics that like to constipate my Internet connection. Welcome to my life.

So what does this mean? I’ll probably have more free time to blog and post photos that I should have posted yonks ago. I’ll probably use this chunk of time to go on short excursions within China (hi, I just got back from Hangzhou yesterday!). I’ll probably tell you more about my trip to Spain/Portugal that I took almost three months ago. And if I have time, I might even throw in a redesign. Oh yeah, and I’ll be trolling the Internet at weird hours and complaining that every social networking site worth updating is now banned. Yup.

footnotes:

1: If you see me online at the odd witching hour or complaining about lightheadedness at 5PM, don’t worry. That’s just typical me being typical. And you know what else? I hate timezones. Timezones are responsible for things like jetlag, clock adjustment, TV spoilers and people flooding up my Tumblr dashboard bitching about said spoilers.

2: Actually, if there’s a bigger life-ruiner than a time zone difference, it’s the Great Firewall of China. No trip back home is ever complete until I start scowling at the fact that China likes to ban every site I frequent.

]]> http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/no-more-homework-no-more-books-no-more-teachers-dirty-looks/feed 11 xix: …. and we’re back! http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/xix-and-were-back http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/xix-and-were-back#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:15:08 +0000 Cindy http://blog.cindypepper.com/?p=22 Hello! So here’s the dealio:
« I am in China. Shanghai, more specifically.
« LJ is blocked in China.
« I doubt I will be using a proxy.1
« I might update LJ when I am in Australia.2
« I’ll be back on LJ on January 17th, when I get back to NY.
« …. so expect more updates here. :)
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1: The proxies here … kind of suck. Maybe because I don’t know a good site. Or maybe because they’re bad at accepting cookies (hence I can’t log on), they sometimes just don’t load, and they tend to go crazy with the pop up ads.
2: That is, if I have Internet. And if that is the case, there might be updates from the 24th-31st of December. Nevertheless, I’ll be updating from here as well. :)

]]> http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/xix-and-were-back/feed 2 attn: lj flist! http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/4 http://www.cindypepper.com/attn/4#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:48:03 +0000 Cindy http://blog.cindypepper.com/?p=4 Hi everybody, I’ve been in Beijing for almost a week now (!). Livejournal is blocked here, so I probably will not be updating that for a while.* My only source of Internet is through the computer lab, so I don’t have access to my photos for the time being. Other than that, just wanted to let you know that I am alive — and quite well!

*I was able to access it during my Shanghai 2006 trip, so who knows. Yeah, screw that. I can’t even remember my PIN number. :(

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