First Post

It seems very unlikely that anyone who is not personally acquainted with me will stumble across this blog, which begs the question: "Why are you writing it?"

First, since all of you are my friends and I don't email you as often as I should, you can see what is going on in my life, even if we have been out of touch for sometime. For those lucky few who I email regularly, this blog will supplement our correspondence and save me the time of writing the same thing multiple times to different people.

Second, I am constantly thinking about things that are only tangentially related to each other. My thoughts are like two logs floating in the Atlantic. They're in the same ocean, but they most likely won't run into each other. This is probabaly google's fault. I hope to synthesize these disparate thoughts for the benefit of humankind.

Third, while there are already a lot of great voices out there (see blogroll), I hope that I will be able to put in my two cents, and maybe every once in a while, contribute something to your understanding of China, or at least your understanding of the lone foreigner living in Three Wells Alley.