Catching Up On My Bloggering

I need to scratch some stuff off my growing list of bloggables, so these may be some marathon posting sessions.

Chin0rz. I am off on a two week trip for work and stop #1 is Suzhou, China (an hour outside of Shanghai). I am loving the "bread things" (mianbao dongxi, literally) which are exactly what they sound like. I am not loving the weather--the attached picture is what it looks like at noonish. I am not sure if that is fog or pollution, but it puts LA to shame.

I am also not loving that I can't get sleeping pills without a prescription. I thought this was a proper developing country, what is with this whole "you need a prescription" thing? Riots in Tibet? I can handle that. Waking up at 5 AM every day for a week--INTOLERABLE!