beijing okay

And so...

The last few months I've been living cheaply and banking some money, seeing increasingly good art, painting and working.

Chad's been gone for some time now.  I still miss him, our wandering adventures, our dinner meetings after work...

I think I'm finally adjusted, have a renewed visa, a pleasantly redecorated apartment and some new (and exciting!) paintings I've been working on.

I'm busier with classes with semester than the last one.  I'm teaching a course about contextual shifts within art, which is a nice change of pace, but requires fumbled explanations of postmodernism to a classroom of students who barely understand English.  (Oops)  It's still fun because my students really care.

Winter is very much here, but it's infinitely more pleasant than last year.  The weather has been strangely clear and beautiful most of the time, and really not too cold.  I finally got to see the full red leaves of autumn, something that I was never able to see in Beijing.

Several months after Indonesia and Malaysia, I really want to travel again.  I have this India guidebook just sitting on my shelf...