very much tired

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so these past few days were quite adventurous. teaching, school, drinking, and randomness kept me busy.

lets start with wednesday. school was same old and what not, so we went to our usual wednesday night 50rmb all-you-can-drinkness. way more crowded than usual though; i guess all the foreigners finally discovered the place. my friend's back hurt from previously so after the bar i took him for a massage. apparently they had a guy walk on his back which actually made it worse. so there we are at 6am, outside the massage place and i'm laughing my ass off as he can't walk right since i'm still drunk. me being the usual ass i am say 'bye' and went home. got home way too late to sleep so i showered and went to school early. my friend also comes to school early and takes me out of classes and yells at me for a minute or so because i didn't help him home. i'm still drunk so i think it's pretty funny, and besides that i hardly ever get mad. anyways hes pissed off so much that we decide to talk it over later on in the day. eventually things worked out fine as we talked it over dinner. before that though, since it was thursday, i had to teach english. after english class i bussed over to the world trade center to pick up my dictionary which canon decided to replace for free. so i ended up staying up for 40 hours straight then came home and passed out at 2230 and slept for 8 hours.

besides that adventure not much happened. on friday we went to our usual taku, but brought along one of our australian schoolmates. the aussie decided it was a competition so he kept trying to drink faster than me. puked in the washroom for a very long time, then came out and puked on the floor. we decided that it was time for him to go home so i took him down and hailed a cab to take him back to the dorm. meanwhile, me and my friend keep on drinking, but due to his 'light supper' he ends up being more drunk than the aussie. puked outside once, so i brought him back in the bar and forced him to keep drinking water. i eventually had to haul his ass back to the dorm up 4 flights of stairs, including a stop on the 3rd floor to puke in the garbage can.

i'd have to say that alcohol and drinking are the most interesting things here in china. the concept of all-you-can-drinkness makes people do dumb things which are funny half of the time.

which reminds me of some guy i met yesterday at the bar who works for tsinghua tongfang - a spinoff company from tsinghua university that deals with technology and patents and computers and whatever. so this guy is talking to me and gives me his number and where he works and tells me anytime i have a problem i can call. now wait, who the hell is going to take someone they met at the bar seriously? this has happened to me on more than one occassion where i meet someone 'important' here and they tell me to call them if i need anything. is this customary? i would sure feel awkward calling these guys up one day and asking for help. maybe if i bumped into him on more than one occassion, but i still find it too weird.

anyways, i should get ready and go out for some food so that i can be energized to come home and clean my apartment.