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Devin Xian Sheng

no sweat, chief

About Me

I'm wrapping up my second year teaching in China. This time, it's college kids, so I guess I'm moving up. I can open a beer with chopsticks. I can do ten pullups in one day. I can count to ten in over one language. I can shower in six minutes, cleaning almost everything.

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My Interests

Making it through the day

I'd like to meet:

People with good hygein that are worse at pool than I am. Maybe some animals I can communicate with like people. Like a talking labradore or something.

Music:

I like the white stripes a lot. I really need to hear some new stuff. You can suggest something for me in one of the little message boxes.

Movies:

Boy, I've been seeing some crap lately. I think it's almost better to see a movie that's really really bad and everyone knows it. That way nobody's dissapointed and you can poke fun at it with someone else. It becomes an interactive experience.

Television:

So, we get dvd sets of tv episodes over here almost the moment they come out. I watched a season and a half of lost in about a week. tv is a gripping life robbing poison the likes of which heroin addicts are repulsed by. I hope to never watch tv again, and yet I'm sure I will in the next few hours.

Books:

When I was in college I tried to read every Steinbeck book ever written. By Steinbeck. I got really depressed and never made it all the way through. If you ever try it, start with the big ones and end with the short ones. Skip East of Eden all together.

Heroes:

With black olives and tomatoes

My Blog

World Domination Preparation

Six thirty in the morning roles around in the dead of winter on a chill and cloudy December day. If you're a student at Number Five High School in Zhuzhou County China, you know it's six thirty becaus...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:34:00 PST

First impression of a new land (summer)

I just found this kicking around my email and thought it was valid insight. I wrote this about a week into the stay at my school.   I know kung fu. And I know why people spit so much here. The a...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:26:00 PST

I was all by myself

I am becoming depressed and apathetic. I am fighting it, and hopefully it's just a case of the mondays. I think it is loneliness. It may be getting compounded by the state of my departement. It seems ...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:49:00 PST

The Shit Show

I just got back this morning at about 3 am. It was the biggest shit-show I'd seen since I got to china. It turned out that I went to the Yangtze River for a three day cruise. I found someone that h...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:04:00 PST

Epiphany

We all want what we cannot have. If we want nothing, can we have everything? I don't think that's quite the right way to look at it, but if we can have everything, we will probably want nothing. At le...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Procrastination

Lately, I've been trying to set aside some time to study for the LSAT's that I've doomed myself to take in June. I have found that this process is much similar to fitting an amputation into my schedul...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Blog virgin

This is a bit awkward. I'm fumbling nervously at the key board.... I know that I want to write something , but I'm a little self conscious...uh, oh, I'm getting excited, I... uh...AGH! Woops. that was...
Posted by Devin Xian Sheng on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST