Personal info for Hemingstein
Name: aaron whitmer
Notes: humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death
Recent diary entries for Hemingstein:
baggins, congrats on the house! Moving away from Chicago in the winter is a brillant move. betsy and I are well (in Guatemala) and we don't even have fleas . . . anymore.
16 Mar 2006 (updated 16 Mar 2006) »
I make my return to the states in early April and look forward to seeing all you Chicagoans and am planning on flying out to California in the middle of the month and am equally looking forward to all of you Chicago pilgrims. Hey, and thanks to everyone who has been way more consistent than me with their postings; during this past year of being in China I've really enjoyed the bit of a window/connection into your lives. take care, zai jian (basically: again see or see you soon.)
16 Mar 2006 (updated 16 Mar 2006) »
Sunning myself in China's spring city . . . its suddenly spring, nearly summer (the Chinese are scandalized by my semi-hairy legs making such an early appearence . .. in China its somehting like no shorts before workers day (May 1)). I have an overnight bus ticket in my pocket to travel west tonight to Dali where life is calm and the cultural feel is different (China is like 95% Han, but harbor over 50 other ethnic groups that have a heck of a time carving out their niche or keeping it (Tibet).)
Happy Year of the Dog, all.
The Chinese New Year Celebration rages on.
Every street corner: man with cigarette selling
the wickedest collection of fireworks you've ever seen:
bangers and bongers and wigmadigits, slap-splashers and
other eyegouging combustables.
The sis bomb ba of it all has been going on for a week
and my nerves are really stretching thin (I wake up to it,
fall asleep to it) . . . a simple walk to the grocery
kiosk down the street is like a war zone re-con
mission. I'm getting paranoid of little kids- with
their cute faces and quick thumbs- snap sizzle bam!
Happy Year of the Dog . . . . rrrrrrrrr
ni hao, all. China remains big. And my home city remains dirty, though now it is cold and no longer desert hot.Recent highlights include: (yi)the heat in my apartment turning out to be as good as it was advertised- all the heating in the city turns on on the same day and ever since that day my apartment has been tropical; (er)the real tropical heat betsy I enjoyed for ten days in Thailand; (san)finally beginning to understand what my students are talking about when they make comments that they shouldn't be making just because they figure I can't understand what they are saying and then making good natured comments back to let them know that crazy foreign guy isn't quite as Chinese oblivious as they thought (such a sweet moment)
lowlights include: (yi) the city suddenly getting down right cold, betsy returning to the states (way low), and (er) hitting a culinary wall with Chinese food (Chinese again!!??). My appreciation for msg, ginger, and garlic waxes and wanes. Though,I'm sure I'll wax back soon.Congrats to miss mercury mouth and family. My heart is jumping too: in two weeks I'll have a second niece or a first nephew (also awfully sweet)
language lesson of the day: 1-10:
yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu, shi
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