My Rectilinear Life

overworkedtiredandnumb

overworkedtiredandnumb
Location
Dalian, China
Birthday
December 11
Bio
US expat living in China. Another 40-something woman experiencing mid-life crisis, only this time in China, with dumplings.

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February 16, 2011 12:12PM
“Oh shit. I think I might be one, too.”
About: Midlife Ophiuchus
February 16, 2011 08:05AM
“In my experience, the peasants of China are much harder to find. They are mostly concentrated in the west, away from the burgeoning eastern seaboard a…”
About: Reality Check (India, part 4)
February 13, 2011 06:57AM
“I think the Mahajahs took two years to give up the land. :-) It was awesome!”
About: Tiger, Tiger (India, part 3)
February 11, 2011 09:32AM
“Control? We always act like we can control every minute detail. What a crock. It is what it is indeed.”
About: My affair, my marriage and my choice
February 10, 2011 10:59PM
“Uh oh, now I'm on the hook. Working on Day 3 now. Thanks for reading!”
About: A passage to, uh, India
January 25, 2011 10:21AM
“8 inch disks. Huh huh, I said disks.”
About: Monkeys With Chimpanzee Dreams
January 25, 2011 10:21AM
“8 inch disks. Huh huh, I said disks.”
About: Monkeys With Chimpanzee Dreams
November 23, 2010 05:07AM
“I need your help on a little shopping trip I am planning to a local sex shop. Let me know when you're available.”
About: Sex Toy Shopping
October 22, 2010 11:26PM
“Consider the flip situation: you and Eddie go back to India and you try to immigrate there. Talk about bureaucracy! I can't even get a visa to visit…”
About: Immigration Frustration
October 22, 2010 07:13PM
“I hate this season, too. Can you imagine yourself alone in a room dying, surrounded by your favorite wooden bowls?”
About: Tis the Season...
October 22, 2010 12:48AM
“Hi. Be well and love. It is what you were meant to do.”
About: Zizi & The Hula Hoop
October 21, 2010 06:46PM
“Is nostalgia lying to oneself? Sometimes the only thing that sustains me is a selective memory, or, at the very least, the capacity to acknowledge tha…”
About: Elgar and My Dad
October 21, 2010 06:50AM
“Henrietta, Today my husband explained to a colleague (a Chinese woman with a Ph.D. from an American university!) that our daughter has a blockage betwe…”
About: Would you like some hot water with that?
October 21, 2010 05:20AM
“Ann, the trade is more than worth it for all of us. We struggle with culture shock and probably always will, but the rewards are immense. My brain,…”
About: Would you like some hot water with that?
October 19, 2010 01:44AM
“Yes, please forward.”
About: Get Out Of My Panties, Please
October 18, 2010 11:04PM
“David Sedaris.”
About: From a Reader to the Personal Essayists of Open Salon
October 18, 2010 01:10AM
“Oh dear, I miss CA, too. It's like crack. Huh-huh-huh-huh, I said crack. Anyway, I don't have any ghost stories as good as this one, but I have been o…”
About: The Tours Are Never Haunted, well, almost
October 17, 2010 05:38PM
“Apparently, Thomas Friedman and I were puzzling over similar issues this weekend: http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/ opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&a mp;re…”
About: A Visit to Hong Kong
October 10, 2010 03:10AM
“The level of corruption and fraud here in China is indeed staggering to us naive Americans. I wonder if there exist any examples in world of nations o…”
About: Fraud and China
October 01, 2010 04:28PM
“I, too, agree with the bulk of your argument. China's cheap manufacturing was not the original or only cause for the loss of jobs and the erosion of…”
About: The China Blames Game
October 01, 2010 03:03AM
“Do it Julie! You know you want to.”
About: Rock, Paper, What?
September 28, 2010 02:01AM
“MAWB- Singapore certainly enjoys a great reputation; I haven't been able to visit there yet. Beijing is endlessly fascinating and something of a cosmo…”
About: Digesting China
April 02, 2010 01:26AM
“I used to try so hard to listen for the voices of reason from the right. I was grateful for the few who didn't shout. I wanted to hear the other side…”
About: Bill Kristol is a Horse's Ass
April 02, 2010 12:26AM
“Dear aim, My mother died two years ago. I joined Open Salon the day before. Just to write my grief down. Now, two years later, I lead a fascinating li…”
About: Dear OS Diary - It Doesn't Stop. (Grief. More. Again.)
March 02, 2010 05:08AM
“I was an extremely shy child and never really got over it. I've been waiting for invisible my whole life.”
About: Approaching Invisible
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